I've been hanging for almost 5 months, 6 times a week. My goal has been to accumulate 5 minutes daily doing the longer hangs I could.
In this time I've increased from a max of 20 sec to a max of 85 seconds.
Yesterday I saw a video that suggested this other routine:
Intervals (15 sec hanging - 15 sec rest) x 5 times
Those five times:
1st: active hang
2nd: scapular pulls
3rd: releasing one finger (then 2, 3, etc) from the right hand to eventually get a one hand hang.
4th: same with opposite hands
5th: passive hang
This is for the first week.
The second week, the intervals are 16 secs. Third week intervals of 17 sec ... And so on until you reach intervals of 25 secs.
I decided to do 2 rounds like this one and a third one but including core exercises: knee raises, straight leg raises, straight leg negatives.
Do any of you have experience on training the grip strength like this?
Or what's your opinion on this approach?
Do you think that just hanging max times is better?
Thanks!