Hanging / Brachiation Exercise for Shoulder Health and Stronger Grip 

I appreciate the simplicity, sincerely, and clarity of these messages. I hope more people learn and spread them far and wide. We could all use these techniques to enhance, well, our entire lives!

What great video ! Been on a bar/rings journey since last march and never thought of those variations. Thank you man.

What a fantastic introduction to ... hanging! Great job, my man! And THANK YOU!

This motivated me to keep going

Have fun in our workouts? Inconceivable!

thank you, man. I love these kinds of "keep it fun" attitudes. much more natural and also beneficial for the psyche.

Awesome tips as aways. Thank you very much for those guides!

Excellent

Thanks so much for creating this video. I've been hanging from the bar somewhat between 3-5 times a day with up to a minute each for almost 1 1/2 years now and I simply like the fact that you can improve and open up your body by simply... hanging around. In fact, I told a family member of mine to hang from the rings for a couple of seconds each day and ever since she continues telling me how much her strength and mobility has improved and how the stiffness in her back has ceased. Unfortunately, I also have realized a lot of people around me don't really appreciate the benefits they get from it and just don't mind it. Maybe your video here will convince them of the opposite :)

This feels sooo good for the lower back, especially if you have a sedentary lifestyle I'm a student, so except the hour I spend running, and the other I workout, I'm mostly sitting. This feels so darn good

Cool. Thanks for sharing. Cool gi and black belt. I've seen it before!

Really really good 👋🦁

Thanks for explaining the progression Ryan 🙏 I really like to hang as a little monkey 🐵 I notice that my grip is improving thanks to my steel mace practice so keep on having fun 😃💗

Thanks - some great tips, especially on how to switch hands and vary the movement. I've been doing five or six minutes of simple hanging a day to treat (probably) an inflamed long biceps tendon (a la Dr. Kirsch) for about six weeks now and it helped right away. I'll stay with it for the reasons you mention and others - it's doing all sorts of good.

Nice.

Nice looking park 🏞️ with great setup to workout, lie down, walk or just sit!!!!

Just got my rings in. Excited to try this

Just started today, excited to see results 😀

For a second there I thought you were going to catapult off the rings. I’ve been using the hanging inconsistently, so thank you for waking me up!

Very nice presentation

Hanging is a great thing to do.

Nice simple but helpful guide to let shoulders feel and preparing for more dynamics 💪 Working and swinging around bars with various body positions in playful ways would be fine as a part or section in GMB app, at least as basics useful in parkour, ninja warrior, OCR etc. Also good to bring children in play with parents.

Older trainers take note of Andy's warning in the accompanying GMB article... "But a little goes a long way here, and too much can lead to overstretching your ligaments and muscles, which could cause a protective reaction from the body. Muscle spasming and pain from too long and too intense of a hang are some side effects." I worked up a little too fast and set off a nasty case of back spasms/lumbago. I'm back to daily hanging now, with no probs, but as GMB points out there's no need to rush.

Thanks again! I've had shoulder issues as well as rotator cuff surgery. I've tried doing hangs (the wrong way) and always ended up regretting it. I'm going to use these suggestions and work up my shoulder flexibility. 🙏

Loved this video! I love hanging, and do it 2 to 3 times a day. I just hang for 30 secs to 1 min. Sometimes I throw a pull up or two to the mix. But you gave a lot of things to try. I'll start playing with one arm hangs. BTW I usually stretch my legs forward instead of folding the knees...

My golfer's elbow came back from hanging every day. Real bummer, I was enjoying the improved shoulder health. Too old to actually improve things eh. You're a freak of nature Ryan, Dog bless you.

Hanging is SO underrated! Not only can a person build up the shoulder girdle but improve everything from rotator cuffs, grips, and spinal tension. Plus, many other benefits which would amount to being too long to list. Another great point is how too many people get caught up in the numbers. They aren't majick. It's 70's dogmatic approach to fitness that never went away - even though there's proof that, well, anything can work for anyone, as long as they trial-and-error it for themselves. This stuff isn't complicated, it's just moving. It's basic instincts in motion.

I can do that!

I do toes to bar in the morning and get in two exercises at once. I did get funny looks hanging out at kid's playgrounds though because we don't have any cool calisthenics parks where I live. 😁

Great video! This is a must for climbers, right?

One advanced grip hanging exercise I like to do is grip hanging on towels. Get two small size towels and throw them over the bar, and grip hang on the towels. Try to last one minute grip hanging on the towels. More importantly: stretch your forearm muscles!! Stand in front of a wall. Put your hand on the wall slightly over eye level, with your fingers pointing to the floor. Press the wall gently. For deeper stretch simply put your hand higher on the wall and press!

Just hanging around👀

Nice video 👌. Everyday I get up I do 2x 1 minute of passive hangs and 1x 1 minute active hang. That is very helpful. I'm using gymnastic rings. Do you know how I can learn the "ape swing" with gymnastic rings? Thanks 👍.

Great recommendations on exercise progressions. I’ve been consistently doing hangs for past 9 months, have worked up to 90 seconds passive 2-arm hang, but am stalled and unable to do one-arm hang at all ‘yet’. My weakness seems to be combination of grip strength and shoulder weakness (feels like it won’t hold). I’ve been working hard on rotator cuff strength and scapular strength, making progress there. I’ll work on your other suggestions….thanks!

Rock on 🤘🤘🤘🤘

simple and clear explained, very nice video. one thinng isn't clear for me, how to pull shoulders without fold arms (with straight arms)? please answer

Thansk for the vid. Would you recommend doing the hanging exercises after or before a separate full body/dumbbell work out?

Hmmm, I've been working up to doing some push-ups and I plan to keep going till I can do pull-ups next. I think this is something I should definitely add to my work out. Lol, I also really need to strengthen my shoulders 😅

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i love hanging ...do it daily after waking up. have put my wooden rings on a pull-up bar for added stablity.. I find rings grip to be most comfortable. ONLY issue I have faced with swinging - which is fun - but has aggravated by Tennis elbow. I know elbow pain is something one has to own for life n I had it before because of improper weight training --- but still swinging doesn't seem easy on elbows. And Puhleez - bring back a simpler ver of Rings program. I dont know why it got discontinued, but right now I want to use rings for overall fitness, so stick to safer options like ring holds, rows n pullups... but feel can do more ..

I'm trying the reverse and just doing farmers carry with lighter weight for a longer period of time. I'm getting a better reaction than static hangs.

Bro just in case you don't know there's a road in your livingroom. By the way thanks for letting me hang around with you too!👍🏼

6:17 Ryron Gracie is smiling somewhere.

what power rack is this I need this in my house

where do you get your BARS? Thnx!

Does anyone know the brand of the rack he is using? Have been trying to find something similar, but with little luck.

is all the static hanging passive (except for the shoulder shrugs)? it just looked like Ryan was doing active hangs...

Dead hang looks easy but is tough for beginners. I can not last for more than 10 seconds mainly due to grip strength.

Is that a copy of The Daily Stoic I see on your table? I swear I'm paying attention.

Se você quer um grip bom, trabalhe ele na maioria dos exercícios que puder, é claro que você pode treinar só o grip, mas trabalhando bem ele nos exercícios comuns já dá pra ter mais do que um ótimo resultado ✌️

Isarted hanging, but, I have osteoporosis and was told that hanging is not a good idea !? I do have upper back shoulder issues, but, I don't want them.

Any suggestions for dealing with "pinch calluses" that form from gripping bars, right below the joint where finger meets hand?

Love the monkey bars

When I could hang for 2 min. I started doing weighted hangs.

How many sets and reps???

Skip The Damn Kip. I hear ya.

10 seconds is exactly how long I lasted first time around

Door frame

1:37 channelling your inner ryan humiston :p

It feels like my shoulders are going to rip apart when I try this????

At 45 seconds you say everyone has something to hang from around home. I looked and nothing at all. Yes park 15 minutes away or gym 10 minutes away but not like can do a few times a day

Talk about thumbnail

I think most of us here would benefit from the opposite, that is strengthening the extensors in this manner :v Whoever invents a machine doing just that will be really rich

Wearing leather gloves helps a lot to reduce painful skin deformed at your palm

I appericate it but I was terrible at monkey bars as a kid

Skip the kip

Reject humanity and return to monke!

Basically: Just Hang :D

Just here to see how a 10 second exercise has to be explained in over 6 minutes.

So play with your hands ? No objections from me.

"Everyone has something that they can hang from" Really? Like what? Because I don't, otherwise this would have been a really helpful video!

Being small doesn't help

Big bs. YES YOU CAN GET HURT. Looks like this guy does not care about it or is ignorant.