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Hangings are great exercises, that’s one way to develop the strength needed in your hands and forearms often a point of weakness in pull ups and any thing with grips (deadlifts etc).
Wide grip hand is fine indeed since you are not pulling up it won’t make much of a diff.
One other thing you could do to develop back strength without having the force to do one pull up is to do negatives. They are very efficient (and boring I will admit that).
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My body is weird. My shoulders are fucked but I have strong neck, probably because of the TTing. My biceps are that of a cyclist but I have relatively big forearms (don't ask why). Huge lower body means lots of weight to hang that's not helping. Grip strength doesn't appear to be too much of an issue - my deadlifts are ok for a 'non-lifter'.
If my arms are already fucked from other stuff I find it much easier to jump part way and finish the pull up then slowly lower down - negative, yeah?
hippy
Hanging from a bar is what my old pull ups used to look like :)
"I AM fucking pulling up!"
I like hanging from a bar, it clicks my back and stuff. Problem is the only people with bars are gyms and schools and I'm not the kind of face you want hanging around your playground and gyms are spendy.
Wide grip hang I presume?