{"id":12694,"date":"2019-11-09T17:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/?p=12694"},"modified":"2019-11-09T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T17:08:42","slug":"assisted-chin-tuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/assisted-chin-tuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Assisted Chin Tuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chin tucks can be performed while standing or sitting. Here is a simple way to do chin tucks for a beginner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sit upright and look straight ahead with the ears directly over the shoulders.<\/li>\n<li>Place a finger on the chin.<\/li>\n<li>Without moving the finger, pull the chin and head straight back until a good stretch is felt at the base of the head and top of the neck. (There should now be some separation between the chin and finger.)<\/li>\n<li>Hold for 5 seconds if possible.<\/li>\n<li>Bring the chin forward again to the finger.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat for a total of 10 times, or as tolerated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the beginning, it can help to have the finger as a point of reference. As the chin tuck becomes more comfortable to perform, it may no longer be necessary to hold up the finger.<\/p>\n<p>A modification of the chin tuck that further emphasizes strengthening of the deep neck flexor muscles is to apply resistance with a hand placed under the tucked chin and apply light downward pressure into the hand, using the 5-second hold time approach.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chin tucks can be performed while standing or sitting. Here is a simple way to do chin tucks for a beginner: Sit upright and look straight ahead with the ears directly over the shoulders. Place a finger on the chin. Without moving the finger, pull the chin and head straight back until a good stretch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,760,759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-askisiologio","category-afchena","category-proponisi-dynamis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12698,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694\/revisions\/12698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}