Member-only story
The One Neglected Muscle Responsible for Your Neck Pain
This will be the light-bulb moment you’ve been looking for!
The upper trapezius muscle is causing your neck pain, but not for the reasons that you may think. While this muscle is commonly made the culprit for being tight, this is not why you’re in pain. This perception of tightness is often an indicator of a deeper-lying issue: a lack of strength and endurance in your postural-based muscles.
If you think about it, it makes sense. If your muscles aren’t strong enough to support the positions you hold throughout the day of course you’ll have pain and tightness! Stretching and mobilizing the neck and surrounding tissues may help, but you won’t get to the root cause of your pain and eliminate that pesky perception of tightness until you prioritize strength in this area.
So what needs to be done?
Just 3–5 minutes per day of trap-targeted work! While this sounds simple, there is a trick to ensuring you isolate the upper traps to ensure the deltoids (big shoulder muscles) or elevator scapulae (a shrugging muscle) don’t take over. Fortunately for you, I’ve already done the heavy lifting!
Below you’ll find any easy guy that includes 5 exercises to achieve optimal neck/trap strength to improve your pain and performance…
