Dead hang
Technique
Shoulder health and spinal decompression
"You should hang from a chin-up bar. Very important. Grab your chin-up bar with your hands and hang with your body weight... so that your shoulders don't become impacted... One of the things that hanging does also decompresses your disc, so it helps your back."
More source quotes
Assessing grip strength and endurance with a minimum benchmark of 30 seconds, target of 60+ seconds
"Another one that you can actually do is just a dead hang. You can hold on to any bar, ideally one that is thin enough to where you can wrap your whole hand around it, something like going to the gym and jumping on any pull-up bar. In general, we should be a..."
Testing and tracking grip and upper body endurance strength
"People have heard me talk about a dead hang. We say a target for a male would be 2 minutes, for a female, a minute and a half."