How you program flexed arm hangs is up to you and depends on where they sit within your workout. For warm-ups, no more than 5-6 sets holding for as long as you can each time.

Pull-up flexed arm hang/negative 1-2 reps: Get your chin over the bar and hold for as long as you can. Slowly lower yourself to the down position to a five-second count.

The flexed arm hang forces your muscles to stay in a fixed position. That means you prolong the time your muscles are under tension, increasing the energy-producing structures surrounding the ...

Flex-arm hang was required of female Marines Pull-ups were always required of male Marines Marine Corps evaluated its restrictions on women for two years Female Marines soon will be required to ...

The proposed standard would retain the flexed-arm hang, with a maximum hang time of 70 seconds good for 50 points in the PFT. To max out their score, though, women will have to do pull-ups.

For now%2C women will be able to choose between the three-pullup requirement or a flexed-arm hang test; WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of female Marines in boot camp can't do three pullups, ...

Sixty-three seconds. I needed 63 seconds. I had to have them. “Ano.” My turn. Our physical education class was clustered in a corner of the Nordale gymnasium where the chin-up bar was loca ...

Another front in the war opened recently with news that 55 percent of female Marine recruits in boot camp training this past year could not pass a minimum three pull-up requirement.

All female Marines will have to perform pull-ups as a part of their physical fitness tests by 2014, the Marine Corps announced Tuesday, replacing the current practice of a flexed arm hang. The ...

The term flexed-arm hang is an instant trigger for Canadians of a certain age. A Proustian moment of the most delightful sort, your reaction to those words hints at a few things – when you were ...

The message, signed by Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller, unveiled the elimination of the flexed arm hang as the upper body strength test for female Marines in the annual physical ...