 The seventh and final tip in our mastering the bent row series here this playlist is It's kind of an extension of the last one we talked about where we you don't want to crunch while you're trying to stabilize your torso You want that stuff to stay nice and long and tall throughout the entire movement? What I think people easily forget is that You know about a third of your spine is your neck and your head So that falls into this category as well, and it doesn't you know It's not just something that you need to consider It's very important because all the nerves that control your arms come out of that neck area and then come down through your arm So when you're doing this, it's for example, if I crunch It's really easy to kind of just let my neck follow with it And then if I'm keeping my gaze forward my upper head or my upper neck and my head tilt Backward and that kind of keeps me feeling like I'm doing the same thing Even if you know there there has been this almost egregious or maybe pretty subtle change in my technique So instead we talked about keeping that nice long tall spine But what I want is I want that head to be sticking out kind of like a draft, right? I need this Normal curvature of my back maybe a slightly flattened curvature as I'm rowing To give me a little bit more stability But also to not steal my mobility, right as I'm doing this row if I'm feeling a lot in my upper trap There's a really the upper trap is like the shoulder neck area There's a really good chance if you're feeling that that your neck position is out of whack It's probably either forward flat and tilted back like we had talked about or it's Over flat and you're trying to pull everything up through the neck muscles That's not an appropriate way to drive this motion because we want this motion to originate in the upper back muscles Right not in the neck muscles So as you're setting up and as you're hanging on to your technique here Remember to keep that long spine all the way up through kind of the top of the head