Does Dead Hanging Improve Grip Strength?

Question

Since you have been doing dead hangs for some time now, do you think that my grip strength would have improved as well?

Answer 1

There are, indeed, improvements in grip strength whenever one practices dead hanging. It may feel at first that the improvements are small and the task is daunting, but with sufficient dead hang practice, one's grip may grow stronger. However, one should be prepared for the slow improvements as well.

Comments

Twelve seconds is a 20% improvement, which is actually a massive improvement for a single week of training. Just imagine if you became 20% better at other things with just one week of training.

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If you’re doing it specifically for grip strength you should rotate in fat gripz. Getting used to hanging from a thicker handle will without a doubt make your grip stronger. If you’re doing it for decompressing reasons, I suggest using lifting straps. That will remove the grip from the equation. Also, mix in weighted versions of all these for added benefits. Cheers, and good luck!

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I've been exercising my wrists for a year or so, so didn't have your painful hangs. I started them to help correct shoulder impingement and feel better every day. Dead hangs are the boss.

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What's wrong with using hand straps? I'm just trying to stretch out my back. Not concerned about grip strength.

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Dorian, how about like using the lifting straps that you wrap around the bars, I would think this method is to benefit the spine more than for the grips. That way you can decompress your spine longer?
Thanks for the content again btw.

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As a Licensed Massage Therapist I can't afford to wreck my hands. I also lift weights every morning and am 250 pounds. I recommend using one of those foam beer-can holders, cut in half, as grip pads. Always worked for me- and I turn 70 in May.

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Yeh diffo the claims are a bit much but i do them everyday for 30 sec's at a time to decompress.  And just build overall strength in grip , shoulders and arms /tendons.  try using weight lifting gloves they help with calluses pain and still allow full use of the fingers /for grip.

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I've been dead hanging for over a year now. I use gymnast wrist hook things so i can hang for longer

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I’ve been hanging and squatting now for about 6 months, not as consistent as I wanted to, but even as scattered as I’m doing it, the results have been amazing. My grip has improved, I can literally see the lean muscle along my forearm, my shoulder has become nice and lose, and my traps, I can feel flex it independently.. amazing!, I started hanging 30 seconds, I’m up to 75sec (painful.. haha, but all worth it)

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I swear by dead hanging, folks. I have always been relatively strong and active, but after seeing rock climbers having out-of-this-world fingers grip strength, I thought the least I could do to improve myself is just doing dead hang. Oh mine, within just a few weeks, my pull ups go from 13 to 15!! I absolutle feel my arms getting so much stronger. My goal of 18 pull ups in a row doen't seem impossible in a short period now. Lol. I'm a female, and old enough to be a young grandma, so pretty much anyone can improve from doing dead hang!!

I started out with 45sec dead hanging, approaching 2.5minutes after a few weeks!

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I went from 1 or 2 pull ups to 10 in a couple of months. No more clicking shoulders.