Eileen Durfee: So, go ahead and
Jakob: Bend down?
Eileen Durfee: Yeah, now hinge at the hips. No cheating with arching your back.
There you go. So we are, wait! I am holding it the wrong way.
Christina Harding: Both arms.
Eileen Durfee: Yeah. See, you're like 10 inches on that left side and you're nine inches on the right side. Now, let's turn your head left to right. So that's like about 45?
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: This way, you re about 45. Okay, so that's before. So, basically, you just go up like this and you go, uhh! Huh! So go ahead and bend your knees. Yeah, there you go. Butt on the ground. Butt on the ground. There you go. Yeah. So, you might not be able come back all the way like I did.
Jakob: Right here.
Eileen Durfee: Hang your head and push up. See, you're getting more flexible, see? There you go.
Jakob: All right.
Eileen Durfee: Now, this is slick. So, if you don't use the right technique, it's gonna spin out -
Jakob: Spin out. Okay. Okay.
Eileen Durfee: But this technique is pretty easy. Just put your hands there and then, you know, as you go up here, you gotta get your arms over.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: Because then, it'll go clear into right up almost your neck.
Jakob: Okay.
Eileen Durfee: Like this and you can just roll back and forth.
Jakob: All the way along the spine?
Eileen Durfee: All the way along the spine. Oh yeah. And see, if somebody's injured, we use the soft - Jakob: Yeah. I think I can, I think I can take it.
Jakob: Yeah. I think you can take it, yeah.
Eileen Durfee: Yeah. So, this one.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: The best way is just to sit up on it.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: And you put that on your iliac.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: Legs out and then you kind of scoot down because this is for the forearm.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: And then you're grabbing it right here.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: to control it. And then its, the rectus is tight. So, you got to get that upper body back, you got to get - so you just kind of relax down in those pelvic tilt up.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: But keeping that rectus under tension...
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: ...with your upper body.
Jakob: Got it. So, I am going to try it out.
Christine Harding: Let's slide it down, move it up so he has room, this way.
Eileen: Is this the right width? No.
Jakob: No?
Christine Harding: He's a little wider than you.
Eileen Durfee: Just a little bit.
Eileen Durfee: Upper body. Now, don't lay down. There you go, now. Then let me have your head. Now, the Neck Shaper. So, let's get the movement down. Then I'm going to have you do the other one. So, this -
Christine Harding: Watch the glasses.
Eileen Durfee: So, well, it fits over my glasses.
Christine Harding: I just want to make sure.
Eileen Durfee: Okay. So, what we've started off with
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: Is straight up, just looking up. And it's just like if you nod at somebody.
Jakob: Yes.
Eileen Durfee: Just that's it. C5, chin down.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: Then see, if your head is one inch, too far forward, L3 goes from 25 seconds exertion per second to 200 pounds. So, what's gonna happen is, even though if your low back is tight now, and when you do this, we're resisting and then we totally relax your whole body. And then we just push back.
Jakob: Push back.
Eileen Durfee: And then it just loosens this up, and then it trains you to keep your head above your pelvis. So, look up. There you go. Like this, so now, relax your whole body and now push back. Okay, there you go, you want to move it now. Look up. You just relax and then push back. See? See how that loosens that up. That's our movement when you're standing. Like people at a desk. Every hour when you're getting up to drink, why don't you do about six of those. Now, it s like beating gravity. It's like eating candy, but I'm going to floss and brush my teeth. That's what that is. And then for this one see, depending on somebody's size of the head.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: See, there's a slope here.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: See how it sloped that way and it's this way. So, this way, it's going to go down further in that hole, and you probably hit your head there.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: So, you re kind of the big guy. So, I would split this over. And you might be able to do with this first hole. But if your head hits, we can move it forward to the second hole.
Jakob: Got you.
Eileen Durfee: But then, there's a metal receiver thing in there. So, you just kind of -
Jakob: Line it up?
Eileen Durfee: Line it up.
Jakob: Push it through.
Eileen Durfee: What you do is, you kind of lay back here to get your, you know -
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: Your spinous in the groove. And then what you want to do is, you want to do a bridge.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: Then put this on and then go like this.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: But once in a while, you can leave your head anchored.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: And just put the butt down and get a really good stretch.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: And you can put it back up and do this more.
Jakob: Impressive. Let me try it out. So, line it up first.
Eileen Durfee: Yeah. Up.
Jakob: Up.
Eileen Durfee: There you go. Now, just arch back. Here we go. Now just the chin-down motion. Don't lift your head up off the cushion, it’s just unknotting. There you go. Two, three. it's just unnodding. There you go. How does that feel?
Jakob: Different.
Eileen Durfee: Now, with your head down that way, put your butt down, just slowly, How's that for a stretch? Feels so good. Now, put your back up now, now do some more. You're lifting your head too high. Just chin down. That’s it. That's it. There we go. Now, you don t want to lift it up. Yeah, the iron neck is not good because it doesn’t induce curvature or fix, you know, things that are out of whack. With this, your neck will crack, or you know, and it's strengthening all these muscles that you never use. Now -
Jakob: I made that a little warmer.
Eileen Durfee: Now, we're gonna do the measurement. And we'll see one over here.
Jakob: Alright.
Eileen Durfee: Oh my Gosh, you're one inch. You're one inch.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: And you were 9 and 10 inches so you got like, and you are more leveled, too.
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: So now, now let's turn your head cause you were 45 degrees. Oh my gosh, you gained an inch. Now, you gained an inch in either way. And how many minutes were you here?
Jakob: (laugh) Not that long, yeah.
Eileen Durfee: But can you imagine doing that every day? So now feel your hamstrings.
Jakob: Yeah. They definitely I didn't feel them at all on bending down.
Eileen Durfee: Yeah.
Jakob: Before it was a like a lot, too.
Eileen Durfee: And so, when that hamstring is there, remember, when it's tight?
Jakob: Yeah.
Eileen Durfee: That's like a negative from your fast twitch muscle recruitment.