I think with incorrect tongue posture the mislagnment spreads down your as a succession of compromises to accommodate your tongue being in the wrong place. Moreno Conte’s Starecta book illustrates this well. Some of us may not be that far gone, but I doubt any of us is straight above the shoulder girdle. With misalignment goes wonky movement. I consider the way I move to be all limps, compromises to accommodate misalignment. Obviously it would be impossible to make every single movement a slow deliberate bit of Feldenkrais, but I am sort of aiming for that. With movements that I do frequently, like walking or cleaning the house, I do try to spot the wonkiness and remove it. And there is nothing so unstable as change. I do not think it at all surprising that someone who is mewing would get unexpected and more frequent strains of muscles.

yeah i was a bit confused by your message but i got the gist of it i was curiousif i should try to strengthen my neck and if so the front or the back

Posted by: Rockyp33

I’ve bedn having muscle tightness in the back of my neck I got it after shooting hoops does that mean the back of my neck is weak or that o need to strengthen to front of the neck more? I have good posture but I think it just got strained real easy

It sounds like you have forward head posture and poor back posture which is exhausting the back neck muscles because the front of the neck ones are not contributing to holding your head up. Eventually this can get really bad to the point that it affects your arms or worse as it leads to bone spur growth, compression in the neck and blockage of the nerves exiting the spine (kinda like carpal tunnel syndrome)

See here: https://youtu.be/OaPnNJs93Ts

Range of motion exercise test here: https://youtu.be/JF8auRkwnsQ

Solutions to the issue in the same youtube channel. Also do chin-tucks as Dr. Mew advises, these strengthen the front neck muscles, proper posture then makes carrying your skull easier and it affects your face. The more forward your head posture, the more of the skull's weight the neck has to carry, the bigger the strain on the back of the neck.

I used to have serious migraines every Saturday from this till I discovered that my 'IT neck' is making my back neck and other muscles connected to my skull spazz out from exhaustion, causing the migraines. Once I rebuilt the desk into a standing one and adopted proper neck & back posture the migraines just disappeared.

@Rockyp33, It means your head/skull isn't balanced on your atlas and your spine. So movement is strained and injuries happen easily. The head leads the rest of the body from this joint (the atlanto-occipital joint, at the base of the skull, at ear level). The adult head tends to weight 4 kilos, and if that is out of balance, it is easy to have pain (which is the body's way to tell you, that you are not alligned and poised).

There is no need to do exercises (like crunches) to help your balance. Toddlers are a great example: they don't go to the gym to learn to stand, they fall countless of time and with the information from the vestibular system and proprioception/kinesthesia they learn to be balanced and to have equilibrium (and that's something that the brain does ). With our modern life and stress many of us have lost awareness of this, but we can relearn to feel the gravity and regain our balance.

 The neck superficial muscles are there to move the head. I mean, it's fine to want to have strong muscles and be fit or a bodybuilder if that's what people desire, but it shouldn't be done to have good "posture". Don't go there...I have, and it is pretty unnerving and frustrating to calculate how many repetitions of this and that should be done, to "stand straight".

The deep muscles are what keeps us up, and it is not something we do, but something we allow. If we are balanced, we can sit for hours without pain (of course it is beneficial to move and make little pauses, since the body loves to move). Be mindful of any tension you may have in your body, since we are an unit and any small imbalance will affect the rest of our body. 

You can palpate your neck muscles and try to feel whether there is some tension somewhere. Move your head and try to feel it's weight with your body awareness. And  if you do have tension try to release it. If you are sitting, try to feel your sit bones with your buttocks muscles, and balance your weight through your skeleton.

Maybe this will help you: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prN9kbDtedc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liu262ZqTI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYt6-9eysm8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmHnV5jfHYQ

I tried to attach some pictures, but wasn't able to (technology is not my thing).

thank you but i have pretty good posture but i was just curious if that means its still getting used to the new posture wel doing strenuous activities