Meme or are the benefits legit? Active or passive?
meme
i go passive at the start for the stretch then to activewant to avoid passive since you decompress your spine then drop down on it when you fall off might be a meme, might not, don't care it feels good after a leg day with l the shit you load on your spine
>>77048491They're great for stretching out your spine.>Active or passiveI do both. Just do them after heavy lifts because they can tax your forearms.>>77048497They're only a meme if you already have perfect mobility, which most people don't. As with most exercises, just try them and see if they feel good to you.
>>77048491i accidentally screwed into the electrical conduit when installing my pull up bar, ended up doing live hangs
>>77048491I prefer the more scientific version of this.
>>77048503I have shit shoulder mobility and they don't make me feel anything.
>>77048491You need to do it with 1 hand for it not to be a meme
>>77048542>ask not for whom the kettlebell tolls>it tolls for (Thee)
>>77048571You should probably try other shoulder openers, then. I'd try something like picrelated with resistance bands. Or you can place your hand on a wall and twist your torso away from it to open up your pec/inner shoulder. Or face the wall, put both hands on it at around shoulder height or slightly lower, and bend over at the hip, like how a cat stretches but against a wall instead of on the floor. It also helps to do accessory lifts like face pulls and Powell raises to stengthen your rotator cuff, neck, and rhomboids.
>>77048491I used to do 90% of legs with deadlifts for big forearms and grip(hands couldn't grip lat pulldowns at the end of a session). Imo it's just as important as forearm training or grip strength shit. Shit like this is also a solid way to stretch, I prefer lowering my oly rings so I can be in a deep calisthenics row kinda position and also step further out and stretch pecs feels good on tendons.
>>77048491What if you slip from a high height and the only thing saving you is how long you can hang from a ledge?
>>77048491yeah its retardedi tried it because i didnt understand whats so hard in it, easily did 2 minutesthen my shoulder got completely fucked from iti dont even do this shit anymore, my shoulder cant even handle hanging for leg raises and stuff
>>77050495I can ez do 2 minutes with no problems, sounds like you got rekt by ituse bands as elbow loops to ease the shoulder load, they're not the target of leg raises anyway.
>>77048571Try rings.
>>77048614then you'd wish you practiced pull ups instead
>>77051106What if you're doing a Stand By Me and have to hang on to the railroad ties and can't pull yourself up until the very long train passes by overhead?
>>77048595That pic related worked well for me. Trying it a couple days later with the same band it was 10x easier. Also face pulls feel amazing to me.
>>77050655yes, because deadhangs are stupid. I'm not even sure my shoulders are supposed to move that way, and this shit puts my whole body weight on them. I genuinely don't understand what anyone whose shoulders are not rekt by it struggles with, and what would even be the point of this "exercise". Callous gainz?
>>77051166"You guys wanna go see a >post body ?"
>>77052722>You guys want to go see a deadhang body?Fixed.
>>77052700You just have shit genetics. I’ve been doing dead hangs one-handed for years with zero issues and i’m 6’2 200lbs
>>77048491i feel better doing them. they must be doing somethingi can't get over my 1 minute 10 second PR despite doing them consistently for weeks. i stopped progressing. do i need to do weighted deadhangs to progress?
>>77051106 Ledges you can barely grapple onto with your palms. Pullups don’t actually translate that well because everyone does pullups gripping with a nice round bar with the entire hand. Your limiter is going to be your grip not your back and arms.
>>77052700you can minimize calluses by hanging on using your fingers from the very beginning. if you try to hang on using your palms your hands will rotate causing calluses. you will end up hanging by your fingers no matter what you do
>>77052700Try moving the hands closer together. You can also wear gloves.
>>77048491I love dead hangs I do them after every workout in the end. Sometimes I do one in the beginning.
>>77053550dont wear gloves
>>77048491Cured my shoulder tendinitis induced by improper push-ups technique.
Do I just grip the bar and hold on for dear life or do I need to do anything else?
>>77048491Benefits are legit. I'm an oldfag who started lifting again about 18 months ago after a decade of no exercise. Daily deadhangs are doing great things for my shoulder mobility and reducing shoulder ache after weights. I also do them as part of my warmup and cooldown on lift days.
>>77050495>my shoulder got completely fucked from it
Dead hangs hurt my shoulders when I do them passively. It's a really uncomfortable feeling like they're going to be torn from my body. Also having my shoulders press into my neck starts to choke me. Just do the band or stick around the world exercise to warm up.
>>77048491no
>>77048491>dead hangs work mostly your forearms>pics shows every upperbody muscle eing worked except forearmsexercise is not a meme if what you want to do is strengthen your forearms
dead hang is great to decrompress your vertebrae, and it fight the fact that most of us have a forward posture all dayyou shouldn't dead hang in cases of herniation. otherwise, toes on the ground, do some slow lateral knee movement like a windshield wipermckenzie hyperextension is also good for your vertebrae, don't go insane range of motion like you see online all the time though
>>77055880Dead hangs aren't even a hypertrophy exercise. They're for stretching/mobility.
>>77055880>dead hangs work mostly your forearmsNo. They don't really "work" anything. They're a stretch. Forearms limit how long you can do them if your grip strength is bad for your weight. It can help to not wrap your thumb around the bar and just use your fingers, but if you do them daily your grip will get better fairly quick.
