Pull your shoulder blades down and slightly back like you’re tucking them into your back pockets.
How To Dead Hang The Right Way (Most People Get This Wrong)
Jul 17, 2026
How to dead hang properly, the 5 most common dead hang mistakes and how to fix them, plus the exact progression to go from struggling at 30 seconds to hanging past a minute.
Dead hangs decompress the spine, build grip strength, and open up the shoulders, but how you hang changes everything you get out of it. In this video I break down the difference between a passive hang and an active hang, the grip mistake that burns out your forearms, the breathing fix that instantly adds time to your hold, and the week-by-week plan to build up to a 60+ second dead hang.What daily dead hangs actually do to your body after 30 days:
I’m 42, documenting the full road to my first muscle-up — one rep at a time. The dead hang is step one.
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