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Machine Lateral Neck Flexion

Machine Lateral Neck Flexion

Sit in the plate-loaded neck machine with the side of your head resting against the padded lever and your torso upright. Keeping your shoulders square and still, tilt your head sideways toward your shoulder by flexing the side of your neck through a controlled range. Pause briefly at the end, then return your head slowly to vertical without letting the pad push you back. Work each side separately with a light load and smooth, deliberate tempo.

How it is executed

  1. Sit in the plate-loaded neck machine with the side of your head resting against the padded lever and your torso upright.
  2. Keeping your shoulders square and still, tilt your head sideways toward your shoulder by flexing the side of your neck through a controlled range.
  3. Pause briefly at the end, then return your head slowly to vertical without letting the pad push you back.
  4. Work each side separately with a light load and smooth, deliberate tempo.
Muscles worked
Back
Primary muscle
Trapezius
Equipment
Neck machine
Movement pattern
Core
Difficulty
Intermediate
What it is for
Strength · Hypertrophy

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