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1 Week To A Strong Neck

This week, commit to a few extra minutes daily of working the thoracic spine.

Josh Bunch
2 min readJun 25, 2023

A while back, we talked about daily maintenance. Specifically, the individual exercises we do daily that enable us to live the life we want.

The prescription is simple: half your age in commitment each day. So if you’re 30 years old, you spend 15 minutes each day addressing your issues.

That could be rolling tight quads, loosening knotted hips, and improving busted toes.

And that’s awesome. But we shouldn’t stop there. Especially today, since most athletes sit a lot, scroll too much, and live with almost perpetually strained neck tissue.

So this week, commit to a few extra minutes daily of working the thoracic spine.

What’s a thoracic spine? Good question.

The T-spine is the upper to middle part of your back, which consists of twelve vertebrae, conveniently numbered T-1 to T-12. Each number corresponds with the nerves in that section of the spinal cord. For…

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Josh Bunch
Josh Bunch

Written by Josh Bunch

Bunch is one of those rare humans who only talks about what he knows; fitness, food, philosophy, and movies. And puppies.

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