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Illustration of the Plate Neck Side Flexion: Ear towards the shoulder, no shrugging up to meet it.
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Plate Neck Side Flexion

Plate Neck Side Flexion is an isolation isolation movement for neck, using Iron Plates and Flat Bench. It also works traps. 3 sets of 15-20, 1 min rest.

Primary muscle
Neck
Equipment
Iron Plates and Flat Bench
Difficulty
Intermediate
Sets and reps
3 × 15-20
Rest
60s
Force
pull

How to do it

  1. 1
    Set up

    Lie on your side on a bench, head off the end, plate on the side of the head.

  2. 2
    The cue that matters

    Ear towards the shoulder, no shrugging up to meet it.

  3. 3
    Work it

    3 sets of 15-20, resting about 1 minute between them. Both sides, same number of reps.

Muscles worked

Neck does most of the work. Traps take the rest.

Neck exercisestraps