You’ll live longer apparently, and better 
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I lasted to 65 seconds today with a better bar so that’s gotta be worth at least another 5 years 
although I couldn’t actually grip anything afterwards 
I also scrubbed at least one year off with my first Zwift race in about 8 weeks 
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When the local fair came to town, they had a bar-hang challenge. I think it was £20 if you could do 2 mins. I assumed they lightly wiped the bar with oil just to make sure.
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They often have a bar that spins which makes things much harder
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The Army recruiting stand at the bike show at NEC a couple of years ago was doing bar-hanging as a challenge. On average the under-sixes were probably the best performers, then U-11s, depending on how coercive their parents were. Rope climbing, vaulting etc. used to be a common thing in junior schools in the 70’s, but don’t see much of it going on today, and PE seems to pretty much optional from 14 upwards.
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Yep, we had climbing frames and ropes in the 80’s, no crash mats either 
you learned the hard way not to let go
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This is spot on
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSDo0sgjpLd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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Seems like a happy sort of fellow
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False equivalence. Its not the grip strength that makes you live longer, but the conditioning that leads to improved grip strength.
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They do pull up at the swimming club as s test, surprising how many elite juniors, one national champion, cant even do one. El Nino did 8 and was second in squad. Pitiful.
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Probably fed up of “fitness influencers”…like him 
. He speaks sense but its just another sales pitch at end of day.
Having coached who knows how many swimmers and triathletes I never fail to be impressed at the shit that gets in the way and the most successful are the ones that just do 20 or 30min on a busy day instead of getting up on 5hrs sleep to “get it done”.
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Yeah, the slight cynicism wasn’t obvious, general good health and exercise habits will serve you better than pullups or grip alone.
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They didn’t call Mark Allen “The Grip” for nothing…
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How much does he charge?
Same with the monkey bars, once you hit teenage years the natural ability dissipates.
Had to google but it’s a cum hoc ergo propter hoc Fallacy, or ‘correlation does not imply causation’.
Probs don’t care, but I try to get the logical fallacies correct as they are the heavy artillery of debate. 
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With you on this although it is ‘enabling’ my fitness decline 
I reckon you could start the ‘26 fitness trend with that, harvest them likes/micropayments.
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Much controversy in my household last night watching Gladiators. The female competitor in blue couldn’t finish the monkey bars in the final challenge. She needed a ladder to skip to the next obstacle. Yet still won. Outrageous. If you can’t do 5m of monkey bars then don’t do Gladiators! (Let alone join the Army.)
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Wasn’t it the celeb one? I saw the start of it and thought that it looked scripted from the off!
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So, we are concerned about the integrity of Gladiators now?
Come back CrossFit, all is forgiven!
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