Exercises that strenghten your chin

[Mr.Sharapova]

Please discuss

[F l i c k e r]

chin push ups? Margarito does them.


Anyways, getting KO'd has nothing to do with your chin per say. It's your brain.

[Phenomkidd]

Well I would think you can't exercise your chin being its a bone. But to reduce the shock/movement I guess when you get hit you could do neck strengthing exercises.

[tomhead69]

since i was a kid i kept chewing stuff like pen lids and tha dont recommend it but now i have some preety big jaw muclees

[Kinetic Linking]

you don't get punched in the brain, you get hit in the head which is also cushioned by neck muscles. If you're hit in the jaw, there are an additional set of muscles as well. Obviously there's a genetic element (thick skill propensity to whatever the **** because of head shape or whatever) if that's what flicker meant but you better believe you can improve your durability.

I've never heard of chin pushups but if margarito does them they may very well be worthwhile as he has a good chin.

as far as pure jaw stuff goes, here's a few.

chew stuff.
drag/pull/twist stuff that is anchored to/you are holding between your teeth. A specific set of these are called carnivours.
There is also a specific muscle that is fairly strong that pushes the jaw straight outward, this would probably be worked by those chin pushups or by a weighted isolation move. I'm surprised more fighters don't work this muscle.

For the neck and other head protecting muscles -

Mike Tyson said shrugs helped a lot.
There's a famous exercise called the bridge that tyson, willie pep, jack dempsey and some other great fighters did quite a lot. It's probably the most famous neck exercise but it's controversial because supposedly it can be dangerous.
There's a set of similar exercises that wrestlers do, they're basically a form of calisthenic that works all sides of the neck using bodyweight. You basically bend over and rest your weight on your head, stabilizing with your arms while you move in various directions. Once you get really good at this you can adjust to a headstand position to start. You can also start on your knees at the very beginning. Vic Darchinyan does these.
An obvious exercise is using a head brace attached to weights. Floyd Mayweather does a lot of these. You can do different directions.
You can be creative and do all kinds of things.
Absorbing actual shock is strengthening but unpopular for obvious reasons.
There are a few dead lift/squat like exercises that you wouldn't expect to help your neck but actually are benefitial.

I'm a big fan of these kind of exercises. To those who think they don't make a difference...they do. The strength of your neck and jaw has a definite, enormous negative correlation to the damage you take from a given punch. I remember watching Tyson get hit straight on with a shot that seemed to move is entire body back a few inches. Without neck work, that same punch would snap his head right back and have an entirely different effect on his brain.

[Phenomkidd]

you don't get punched in the brain, you get hit in the head which is also cushioned by neck muscles. If you're hit in the jaw, there are an additional set of muscles as well. Obviously there's a genetic element (thick skill propensity to whatever the **** because of head shape or whatever) if that's what flicker meant but you better believe you can improve your durability.

I've never heard of chin pushups but if margarito does them they may very well be worthwhile as he has a good chin.

as far as pure jaw stuff goes, here's a few.

chew stuff.
drag/pull/twist stuff that is anchored to/you are holding between your teeth. A specific set of these are called carnivours.
There is also a specific muscle that is fairly strong that pushes the jaw straight outward, this would probably be worked by those chin pushups or by a weighted isolation move. I'm surprised more fighters don't work this muscle.

For the neck and other head protecting muscles -

Mike Tyson said shrugs helped a lot.
There's a famous exercise called the bridge that tyson, willie pep, jack dempsey and some other great fighters did quite a lot. It's probably the most famous neck exercise but it's controversial because supposedly it can be dangerous.
There's a set of similar exercises that wrestlers do, they're basically a form of calisthenic that works all sides of the neck using bodyweight. You basically bend over and rest your weight on your head, stabilizing with your arms while you move in various directions. Once you get really good at this you can adjust to a headstand position to start. You can also start on your knees at the very beginning. Vic Darchinyan does these.
An obvious exercise is using a head brace attached to weights. Floyd Mayweather does a lot of these. You can do different directions.
You can be creative and do all kinds of things.
Absorbing actual shock is strengthening but unpopular for obvious reasons.
There are a few dead lift/squat like exercises that you wouldn't expect to help your neck but actually are benefitial.

I'm a big fan of these kind of exercises. To those who think they don't make a difference...they do. The strength of your neck and jaw has a definite, enormous negative correlation to the damage you take from a given punch. I remember watching Tyson get hit straight on with a shot that seemed to move is entire body back a few inches. Without neck work, that same punch would snap his head right back and have an entirely different effect on his brain.

Good info . I don't think the other poster meant you get him in the brain but rather when you get hit it rattles the brain causing it to bash up against the skull in turn causing concussions, kos, etc.

[-PedoBear-]

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