False Grip Straight Arm Hang
The False Grip Straight Arm Hang will build an athlete's wrist strength and mobility needed for later false grip skills. The locked elbows and extended shoulders further challenge the grip strength. The false grip is essential for beyond-basic ring work.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Forearms, Shoulders
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Gymnastic Rings
False Grip Straight Arm Hang
- Begin standing between a pair of gymnastic rings set to head height and false grip them.
- You should now have the bottom of your palms, and not your wrists in contact with the lower, center portion of the rings and a 90-degree bend in your wrists.
- Maintain your false grips and weight the rings until you are in a dead hang and hold for time.
- Exercise: False Grip Bent Arm Hang
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Forearms, Lats, Biceps, Chest
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Gymnastic Rings
- Exercise: False Grip Row
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Forearms, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats, Biceps, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Gymnastic Rings
