Who doesn’t want a beautiful swan neck? So, various methods of correction and beautification flooded the internet.
The most commonly recommended action to develop a swan neck is to retract the chin.
By practicing this one movement every day, you can achieve xxx perfect swan neck. ”
At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be any problem? However, things are not that simple.
Why do you persist in doing it without much effect, and instead your neck becomes increasingly uncomfortable?
1、 If you try hard to retract your chin, your neck may feel even more uncomfortable
When it comes to leading by example, many people have a strong sense of imagery:
It’s probably like extending the chin forward.
The most popular online improvement for the front of the head is undoubtedly,
Simply one chin tightening action, persisting in it, can improve the turtle neck and perfect the swan neck.
Does it make sense?
If the neck and chin are stretched out, should we retract them?
But why does our head come from before?
Do you think the problem can be solved by simply retracting the chin because the neck wants to stretch forward on its own?
Naive！
If you observe it a little, you can find that:
Forehead traction usually does not appear alone, but rather in conjunction with the straightening of cervical curvature
There are accompanying problems such as thoracic kyphosis, lumbar lordosis, and pelvic anterior tilt.
If there is an abnormality in one link of the entire body system, it will involve adjacent links.
Simply doing the action of forcefully retracting your chin may make you look like your chin has been retracted,
But if there are already problems such as straightening of cervical curvature, poor flexibility of thoracic spine, and thoracic kyphosis.
During the process of performing this action, except for the neck stretching back and forth, no issues that needed improvement were addressed.
Persisting in doing so not only fails to improve the turtle’s neck, but also makes the shoulder and neck muscles more sore.
Knock on the blackboard
If you have problems with upper cross syndrome and hunchback, no matter how much you do to retract your chin, it won’t help.
You have to understand! Good upper body posture is the result of the normal operation of a complete “system”, and chin retraction is just one external manifestation.
However, poor posture in the upper body is the result of a malfunctioning system and cannot be improved solely by retracting the chin!
It’s like, when you catch a cold, you may sneeze, but hoping to cure it by blocking your nose and not sneezing is just wishful thinking.
Never reverse the causal relationship!
The first step in improving round shoulder hunchback and neck probing should start with enhancing thoracic flexibility.
2、 Compared to chin tightening, these daily exercises are more reliable
Compared to constantly reminding oneself to tighten their chin, a more effective and natural daily practice can be divided into the following three steps.
Step 1, “Clear the Neck”
Imagine there is a large space in front of your neck and between your upper ribs.
There is a brush that is brushing from the middle to both sides, “brushing” your shoulders.
Step 2, “Lift the back of the head up”
Imagine there is a brush brushing from bottom to top on your back neck, feeling the upward extension of your neck.
Step 3, “Lift the sternum”
Imagine placing a glass of water on your sternum while probing your neck,
With the inner buttons on both shoulders and a hunched back, that cup of water won’t hold up at all.
What you need to do is “lift the sternum” and level the glass of water on the sternum.
Just focus on lifting the sternum, everything becomes natural and simple.
In the end
Of course, in addition to the small exercises of “finding feelings” mentioned above, if you want to fundamentally solve the problem of upper cross syndrome,
We still need to pay attention to improving the flexibility of the thoracic spine and strengthening systematic improvement.
The so-called ‘swan neck’ is actually a manifestation of a well proportioned body, where the pelvis, lumbar spine, and cervical spine are interlocked,
It’s not enough to solve the neck or chin alone to get the ‘swan neck’ you want.
Don’t easily use those “shortcuts” and let your body take more “detours”!
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