Daughter 7 and son 9 can dead hang comfortably for 3 and a half minutes

[stormvetprime]

@henpat Sure, I'll get one up at some point

 

[bellastarlette]

@henpat I'm here for the video too

 

[teribahome]

@rando Time to get them underneath the pull up bar and start training them to do muscle ups

 

[michi1966]

@rando What are the benefits of dead hangs?

 

[123michael123]

@michi1966 Being able to hold your bodyweight can be pretty useful in emergency situations. +1 point if you can do a muscle up, might even get you out of these situations.

 

[leona_firefly]

@michi1966 Feeling like a kid again.

 

[handler]

@michi1966 Not sure how true this is but my ex said dead hangs were good if you weren’t able to do pull ups yet.

 

[beniah]

@michi1966 Grip strength, the ability to hold your own bodyweight, spine decompression.

 

[survivalist]

@rando they relatively stronger.

 

[lauranoelles]

@rando Saw this at a carnival today. You should take your kids to random carnivals and make money.

 

[pastordon2006]

@rando As others have said, those challengers use a rotating bar meaning it's basically all in wrist strength and engages very isolated muscles.

But yeah, anecdotally I was certainly better as a kid. I used to be able to hang and swing off bars all day as a kid, but the other week I tried a one handed dead hang and it was hard as fuck. I probably didn't even go 30 seconds.

 

[neomedipharm]

@rando It's our monkey genes in action, baby monkeys hang on to their mother all day basically

 

[simonscion]

@rando Same gravity for all of us and kids have a better ratio weight/muscle than an adult.

 

[elspeth2006]

@rando Strength to weight ratio is much greater in kids. My 8 year old can also hang for 3+ minutes. 1.5-2mins is a best for me at 36. Ive been active for most my life and I distinctly recall pullups and rope climbs being much easier at 140lbs at 14 than they are at 185lbs at 36.

 

[geneva]

@rando I read hand dead at first and got very concerned lol

 

[spectator1001]

@rando As you just said, your kids play on monkey bars. A lot of people have made great comments about physiological differences as we grow up, but exercise also plays a huge part in this. If you played on the monkey bars every day you'd be better at a dead hang too. Someone who can do multiple pullups is going to have a better dead hang than someone who does not (and most adults do not!).

 

[xlaurax]

@rando My kids do things at the monkey bars that I can't touch. Crazy grip strength and endurance. On the flip side she can do 1 pull-up, and I can do 10+ weighted. Different kind of strength.

 

[sanleelee]

@rando I read daughter 7 and son, dead, hang comfortably. I'm like damn, they're dead and hanging comfortably? That's kinda fucked up

 

[whitakercrew]

@rando As a kid I could do stuff that I wish I could do now. I don't think it's abnormal

 

[notnecessary88]

@rando take them to the carnival and win all those plushies on the 3 min hang.