Looks like he was trying to offset the ears by making the neck wider than them
I think I met him. He used to own a high intensity gym in Belmar, NJ. He has since moved to Florida. His gym was like a museum to Arthur Jones. Full set of classic Nautilus machines. A full set of MedX machines. His neck is freaky. My job volunteered me for him to demonstrate high intensity training at his gym almost 20 years ago to show the guys. He actually tied kill me in his demonstration. Each exercise was one set to failure with plenty of forced reps. The first exercise was the Nautilus leg press. When I failed he would help me get more forced reps. I staggered off the machine thinking I was going to another exercise machine. Nope, he had me sprint on a stationary bike in between each machine. At the end of less than 20 minutes of exercise He said I looked sick and told me to lie flat until I recovered. Anyone involved with the gym followed Arthur Jones protocol. If anyone can confirm that's the same guy let me know. His name is Joel Waldman. This is him in his later years.
The Body Shop?
If anyone is interested in how I trained my neck in those years, it is quite simple...mostly manual resistance negatives provided by a very good and very strong training partner. We trained neck once per week and would do 6 to 10 10second negative only all out reps on six exercises...posterior extension, anterior flexion, lateral flexion both right and left and cervical rotation in both directions.My neck would pump at least an inch to an inch and a half in the 8 minutes it took to perform those exercises. In addition, I always performed an exercise we called top deadlift/negative shrug in a power rack...bar starting mid thigh in a partial squatty pre-shrugged position and dragged to the highest position possible and then resisted on the way down to a fully stretched unshrugged position.This was performed for one set of about 10 reps 2 to 4 times per month...always trying to work up to over 1000lbs.Nothing fancy here, just heavy weights, reasonably good form, and killer intensity.
Waldman's Youtube channel - .Claims his neck was a hair under 23" at its peak. He's 71 now, and is down to an 18 1/2" neck. He was at his peak #275 at 6' 2".
23inches, jesus. When you think tysons was around 20.is 23 the record for a non obese person?
Nautilus had a great neck machine. Worked all angles. Jones was a genius. You don't find them anymore in any of the gyms I've been to. Neck strength and durability is so important in contact sports but so neglected. The only way I can work my neck conveniently is just using hand resistance. Sucks because my neck has gotten a lot more skinny since the days when I would use that neck machine religiously. And I'm constantly having neck pain and stiffness.The first one was taken last Saturday and the second one in 1998 (BTW, that was my Raytheon badge picture not a police mug shot).
