Six Flags 90 Second Bar Hanging challenge

[stoneyoda]

Can most people really not hang for 90 seconds?
weight and upper body strength determines how long you can hang
but when i went with my 5 friends a few weeks ago
only one of my friends (Jacob) could beat it, hes 190lbs and 5'11
hes far more in shape then i am, he did basically 110 seconds.
i'm 124lbs and 6ft and i went for 8 minutes and 48 seconds. my question is, is it really that hard to hang for even 90 seconds?

i get this is a "brag" or whatever but i didn't realize most people can't hit that mark.

if you've tried it, what was your score and how tall/how much do you weigh
im genuinely interested to see if this is abnormal or if my friends just don't have
much upper body strength.

as a side note i did do gymnastics for around 7 years (from 8 yrs to 16 yrs) so i guess that plays a major part in it

[Devsman]

Parrhesiastes lähetti viestin:

No idea what "Six Flags" is

Damn dude and I thought my childhood sucked.

[Morkonan]

Stone lähetti viestin:

Can most people really not hang for 90 seconds?
...only one of my friends (Jacob) could beat it, hes 190lbs and 5'11
hes far more in shape then i am, he did basically 110 seconds.
i'm 124lbs and 6ft and i went for 8 minutes and 48 seconds. my question is, is it really that hard to hang for even 90 seconds?
...
as a side note i did do gymnastics for around 7 years (from 8 yrs to 16 yrs) so i guess that plays a major part in it

This is the classic energy-density fitness issue. You simply had less weight to support and less body mass in muscle needed to keep those tendons tight so your hands could keep their grip.

Have you ever noticed that some smaller guys can really get into shape pretty easily and can do well in certain sorts of relative strength and endurance tasks?

At 124 lbs and 6' tall... you're a beanpole. :) Hey, that's OK - If that's your natural physique, that's cool. If you were shorter, you could probably mail yourself UPS and save on Air Fare. ;)

You've likely built up a good bit of forearm strength due to gymnastics. Everything there takes forearm strength, right? It's sort of an all-over workout. And, you being 6'... ouch - It's easier for the smaller guys, isn't it? :) "Experience" counts, too - Pain/Strain/Stress endurance helps.

You'd make a good golfer, but probably a bad rugby player.

And, that's the thing - Some body types are better at other "feats" than others. It's just a matter of leverage, capacity/density in the right spots, and overall physical conditioning relative to that.

I'm a tad over 200, 5'11, generally "v-shaped" when I'm not working hard at being "d-shaped." I can change weight pretty easily, upwards easier than downwards of course. (Ice-Cream!) I haven't tried the "challenge." Could I do it? Maybe. But, when I pushed hard to see how much weight I could lose and hit around 179 or so, I have little doubt I could at least go a minute and a half at that weight. (I don't know if I have anything worthy of a pull-up/hang bar around the house. Maybe? No, not the gas pipe in the basement... that'd be bad.)

How are you with pull-ups? Who'd win between you and your friend? How's that arm-length treating you with you have that long lever to fight against your friend's more advantageous one? (Maybe - Depends on arm-length and upper-body strength, some core too..)

[Xero_Daxter]

I don’t weight much and if I was to hold myself up I believe I would of lasted a while.

[JobeGardener]

Be a real hero and hang from some hooks stabbed into your back or nose like the people with piercings.

[White Knight]

Rupika lähetti viestin:

are you mad you cant climb?

Yeah, actually. Disability has taken a lot from me. I still have my rock-climbing gear (though I wouldn't trust it with my life at this point). Of course, I've never heard of arm-only "climbing" that involves hanging in one spot for as long as possible either.

[White Knight]

Rupika lähetti viestin:

Sorry to hear about your disability. No wonder you are so bitter about younger people being better at it than you.

Nah, it's not bitterness... it's just Physics.

[The Grim Reaper]

It depends on the bar. If the bar is solid it's quite easy. If it's loose and can roll it gets much harder.

[Decathect]

The Grim Reaper lähetti viestin:

It depends on the bar. If the bar is solid it's quite easy. If it's loose and can roll it gets much harder.

Key there might be to have one palm out, one palm in, opposing forces to keep it from rolling.

[White Knight]

Rupika lähetti viestin:

are you mad you cant climb?

You know, I actually did think of an example of "arm-only climbing". It's from the same gym-class I mentioned earlier... a wall with holes in it, and the climber gets two pegs to hold in each hand. They only use their hands, jamming pegs into the holes as they ascend the wall!

Funny thing though? The skinny nerds who rocked the "hanging limply test" NEVER did well on the pegs in the wall thing. I only saw one kid who could do it, and I'm pretty sure that kid didn't survive long enough to see his hair turn grey... that's just a guess mind you. It was a rough town after all. He's also the same kid who beat up the principal when we graduated from middle-school. Died in a prison riot... that's the story I'm going with.