Forward Head posture will affect your running and cycling

If you’re someone that suffers from headaches or neck pain of any kind there’s a good chance your form is involved. If you suffer during rides from numbness in your hands bike fitting is a big component, but again form plays a huge role, for example where you’re placing your head will have an effect on the forces that go down your spine, into your wrists. There’s something called forward head, which means, your head lies forward, relative to the rest of your spine. When that happens there’s an increase the force that travels all the way down the spine, and can effect as far away as your feet.
And so we have to start thinking about form from the very top going all the way down whether you’re running whether you’re riding or whether you’re just hanging out in front
of your computer. No one expects you to have perfect form the entire day but especially in the beginning middle and end of an activity ask yourself where is my head? Where is it in relation to my spine? Is it resting on the top of the rest of my spine or is it nudging all the way forward. The more forward your head is the more it’s going to impact
your spine and the more fatigue you’re gonna feel and the more you’re going to end up recruiting the wrong muscles causing things like headache and neck pain so it takes a lot of practice but I always like to think my chin is neutral and my head is back and that will help ensure that you’re recruiting your deep neck flexors those are stabilizers for your neck and try to calm down the neck extensors that tends to be over worked, so if you tend to have trigger points in your neck or shoulders there’s a good chance that you like to sit in forward head so let’s straighten up