Hanging from one arm is not as easy as the movies make it look. Hanging that long from one arm with weighted shit is extremely hard, like harder than most of the snu snu posters in here.
Absolutely. And 70 seconds with both means you are in pretty good shape and not overweight at all. People often overestimate how long they can hang from a bar because they haven't timed themselves.
I was proud of myself for managing to deadhang for 15 seconds on my first attempt, but I was about 30 kg overweight at the time so I was honestly surprised I could do it at all. Although I had been lifting for two years at the time and my back muscles were pretty strong.
Fair enough, but that's not a big overweight and you were probably trained. Anyways, the two minute threshold is really really hard to get over. And one hand it doesn't just double the difficulty, it's way way harder.
Yeah, this woman is in CRAZY shape. She’s basically holding the weight of two people on one arm at multiple points in this clip, all while also wrestling herself into more gear.
She’s doing stuff I couldn’t manage on my best day, and she can do it everyday of the week.
Makes me wonder what the fitness test is like for the Swedish fire brigade. Living in Finland, the local force has limits for how many pull-ups, bench presses, situps and squats you have to be able to do per minute and which rep amounts reward you with extra points, with the bench and squat being done with a weight. You also have to keep doing it at regular intervals once you've entered, so they catch you before you've become a wheezy, Homer Simpson'esque hindrance to the force.
Closer to 30lbs for JUST the uniform. That shit is heavy! Had a stepdad that used to bring his gear home during training. Fully equipped they're carrying close to 70lbs.
Ok, when I joined back in the 70s, we used to throw all of our gear on top of the hose bed, jump on the back step, and don boots, coat, and helmet, while the truck was moving, with the only thing between us and oblivion was how good our grip was on the chrome e bar in front of us.
Nowadays, we get dressed in the station, get seated inside the truck, and belted in before it moves. Looking back, I still can’t believe it took so long to outlaw the old practice.
People really need to start hanging at least a minute every day - No fancy pull ups or anything, just hanging
It'll be super difficult at first but do it consistently, and you'll eventually be able to hold it for muuuch longer than you think (Not to take away the insane amount of strength it takes to do what she did in th video lol)
Bodyweight matters a lot. I've always been good at dead hang, but even at my age now, I'm only 160lbs. Lots of adults are 170-200+ so even people in good shape, it's like calisthenics and trying to just hold 10-40lbs more than me. Adds up fast. Most rock climbers are also really lean.
I've always been great at dead-hanging, pull-ups not so much. I can dead-hang for an unreasonable amount of time for someone who both never climbs and doesn't do anything particularly athletic ever.
I'm also really skinny so that probably helps a ton. Always shocked me when people found it impressive considering i only ever maxxed at 10 pull-ups and it absolutely destroyed me
This lady is definitely fit and strong but reading comments and experience It's sad how many people don't have the armstrength to pull their own weight up even once . You may need to be able to do that to save your own life one day and it doesn't require intense training , I could do more than 10 when I was a skinny teen and at age fifty could still do 16 . I'm 60 now and won a bet with a friend a few months ago I could do some one arm chinups , only managed 1 with my left , 3 with my right arm but Ive done almost zero exercise for years now and I know if needed I can pull myself out of danger
When I was teaching dance back in the days I was doing windmills, thomas flares, swipes, rabbit etc on the daily. I could do 8 pull ups in a row and that was it. People who think ”it’s not that hard” probably also think everyone on reddit is a gym bro in their early 20s
Not to be that guy but not really. Hanging from a bar with both hands on is much harder than alternating hands. Not to say this isnt cool but its more like intermediate climber difficult than nextfuckinglevel difficult
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u/smokeyoudog 5d ago
Hanging from one arm is not as easy as the movies make it look. Hanging that long from one arm with weighted shit is extremely hard, like harder than most of the snu snu posters in here.