The Power of Dead Hangs and How They Improve Your Health

(And, no, I’m not standing on a stool!)

After the unexpected popularity of my post about weight loss (still can’t believe it had 11 million views), I am trying something a little bit different this Sunday morning with this short video about dead hangs, while doing a dead hang. I am planning to cover alternative health a bit more frequently on here in the Sunday morning thought pieces.

(NB If you want to try dead hangs, but aren’t yet ready to hang fully, try resistance bands or standing on a step and still putting as much weight as possible through your shoulders).

Enjoy!

In case you missed them, last Sunday’s post on immigration was extremely popular

And we also had an update this week on the Dolce Far Niente portfolio

TRANSCRIPT:

Hey Siri. Timer in 2 minutes.

Today, I’m going to talk to you about dead hangs.

I’m going to try and do a 2-minute dead hang while recording this video. Not sure if I can last two minutes while talking.

I had a motorcycle crash when I was 27, and I've had problems with my neck ever since.

Then, last year, I got a trapped nerve in my shoulder and I was in agony. My osteopath helped a lot. I did about 3 or 4 minutes of neck stretches most days. However, the problem continued.

And it was only after I started doing dead hangs a few months ago, that my neck issues, shoulder issues and trapped nerve mostly cleared up.

Dead hangs are great. Everything we do, whether exercising or just sitting, compresses the spine. Dead hangs stretch it all out.

As well as decompressing the spine, they have all sorts of beneficial side-effects.

* They improve your posture.

* They re-aligning the spine.

* They stretch out all the evils of sitting at a desk in front of a screen all day.

* They increase neck and shoulder strength, flexibility and mobility.

* They stretch through your torso, particularly if you swing from side to side, improving your stomach and core strength.

* They are great for your grip strength, your fingers and forearms.

* And holding the position for extended periods is probably good for your determination too.

So get a pull up bar. The ones you hang in your doorway are you but the ones you put on the wall are better, like this one, and keep hanging every day.

At first you’ll only be able to hang for 10, 20 or 30 second, but keep doing it and you’ll quickly increase the time you can hang for.

Then you can start hanging in different ways. You can extend the width of your grip. swing, do one-armed hangs.

Try and do a couple or three dead hangs a day and they will benefit you in all sorts of unexpected ways, I promise. 

I can’t think of a physical more beneficial way of spending a couple of minutes than a dead hang. 

When it finishes you get this rush of pain, this exhilaration through your shoulders.

And I’m hoping it finishes pretty soon. Hey, Siri, how long on timer?

Hey, Siri, how long on timer?

It didn’t set!

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Here’s the original weight loss post, in case of interest.

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