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Mobility Β· Upper body
Towel hang
Difficulty Mobility
How to perform it
Hang with a towel draped over the bar, holding both ends. The thick "fat" grip sharply increases grip demands. Differs from the dead hang by the grip β a towel is not a round bar, so the fingers have to squeeze harder.
Equipment
- Pull-up bar / Doorway pull-up bar / Wall-mounted pull-up bar / Gymnastic ringsBodyweight
Muscles worked
Front
Back
Muscles and artwork credits
- Biceps
- Forearm extensors
- Forearm flexors
- Lats
- Rear delts
Related exercises
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Bar hangs
Exercise family Β· pattern: Mobility
1 family Β· 9 variationsDifficulty
- Dead hang
- Active hang
- Scapular pull-up
- Tuck hang
- Bent-arm hang
- Rope hang
- Towel hangCurrently viewing
- L-sit hang
- One-arm hang
Difficulty describes how demanding the execution is. It is not a recommended training order.