Strength exercise then what we're looking for this now is to start to rebalance the structure. Remember I said before, what's happening on a kind of on an evolutionary scale is that we're hunching forward like that. And what that does, is that shortens all the tissue through the front of the body. You could imagine if I had a giant elastic band that was running up the front of my body here, and I'm hunched forward like that, you can see how that shortens and shrinks all this tissue from the front. And then on the back component, what it's doing is it's lengthening all this tissue in through here, so the back gets long and weak, and then the front gets short and tight. So that's kind of different a little bit depending on what part of the body you're looking at, which is why we needed to do a video series for this But what happens is if, if we're, if we're forward like this or like that.

Now we're not using these deep supporting muscles in through the neck here. They're responsible for trying to help us be a little bit more upright. So, although we've got a shortening in the back through here, what we're looking to do is strengthen some of these deep neck flexors that are in in through the front here in order to help us strengthen and maintain this component. Now, you might notice some straining in through the back here. So you need to take it nice and easy with this exercise. It's something that you're going to do progressively over time.

The biggest complaint I hear with this exercise is that you feel pain running up the back of the neck. That means that you're doing too much, dial it back a little bit. Just take it easy for now you've got some time to work with this. And remember what you're looking to do, the exercise has you pushing backwards and you're looking to re strengthen almost like you're wearing a brace restraint. In this tissue and then tomorrow's exercise is then freeing up the tissue.