After a long day hunched over my laptop, my body sometimes feels like a crumpled up ball of paper ready to be thrown in the trash. Just standing straight again can be a real, um, stretch. But I’ve ...

What Is the Dead Hang? The dead hang is a deceptively simple fitness exercise: hanging from a pull-up bar with arms fully extended. While it seems easy, this exercise has gone viral in 2025 because it ...

If you’ve scrolled through fitness TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve probably seen the dead hang trend, people simply hanging from a pull-up bar for as long as they can. It looks simple enough, ...