Paul Saladino· MD
Morning at night, I will hang from this bar. I'll do pull-ups. I will do single hand hangs. I'll do rotations on a single arm. And I'll just spend time hanging to decompress my spine at the end of the day.
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Morning at night, I will hang from this bar. I'll do pull-ups. I will do single hand hangs. I'll do rotations on a single arm. And I'll just spend time hanging to decompress my spine at the end of the day.
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I like to hang throughout the day just to open the spine and the shoulders
I love to hang and I love to do pull-ups I love extending I love the way it feels to decompress my spine
I like hanging. I like the way it decompresses the spine.
And as soon as I hang and I push my head forward, I can feel my whole back kind of adjust itself. I'm going to go side to side. I'm going to go one arm I'm not even doing pull-ups yet. I can if I want. I'm just trying to decompress shoulders, back, and hips.
The other thing I love to do is to hang. I'll put a clip of it here. I hung on a bar in Dominico, Costa Rica for almost 13 minutes. Yeah, I'm not going to do that now, but every time I come to the gym, it feels good to hang. I can feel my whole spine decompress.