Strength · Grip · Bodyweight

Dead Hang

Dead Hang is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the forearms, with help from the lats.

Animation of Dead Hang

How to do it

  1. Grip the bar a little wider than the shoulders
  2. Hang with straight arms
  3. Keep the shoulders gently active, not hanging in the joints
  4. Breathe calmly and hold

In Sets Ahead

Sets Ahead keeps every set at 30 s and adds weight when all sets reach it.

Muscles worked

Mainly

  • Forearms

Also

  • Lats

Joints it loads

  • Grip and forearms a lot
  • Wrist some

With an injury here, the app warns you before this exercise.

Log it in Sets Ahead

Sets Ahead works out your next set of dead hang, and every other lift, from your own numbers.

Test it before release

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