Spinal Decompression on the Captain's Chair... if you do a lot of heavy training and find dead hangs for decompressing your spine to be hard on your shoulders, this is the perfect alternative. It's actually very important to decompress the spine after heavy loading. When you do heavy squats, deadlifts, lockouts, holds or carries, your spine and connective tissue gets compressed. This is a good thing because it squeezes fluid out of the area (which creates hydraulic circulation). Doing decompress