TikTokers are trying the 'hanging challenge' from Netflix's 'Physical 100' and finding out it's harder than it looks

• Fans of Netflix's viral survival show "Physical: 100" have started a new challenge on TikTok.
• Dubbed the "hanging challenge", it was inspired by the show's very first competition.

Fans of the recent Netflix hit "Physical: 100" have started a new TikTok challenge inspired by the show's first competition.

In the series, the very first game was a warm-up round, referred to as "Quest 0" in the show. It aimed to determine the rankings of the 100 contestants for a match-up in the first official round.

The game involved contestants hanging from a huge metal structure attached to a movable ceiling for as long as they could. Below them was a pool where they would land if they let go of the bar. The game could only end when there was one person hanging.

The winner of the round, Kim Min-cheol, was a member of South Korea's Bukhansan mountain rescue team and is also on the national ice-climbing team. His record was a whopping 18 minutes and 15 seconds.

Several TikTokers have uploaded their attempts at the "hanging challenge", and most of them have found it to be extremely difficult.

In a TikTok by user @angusvsdonuts which garnered 1.7 million views, the TikToker can be seen struggling to keep the bar from cutting off blood flow to his arms. And by the two-and-a-half minute mark, he claimed to be in "so much pain". He completed the challenge with a record of three and a half minutes.

Another TikTok user @mana.jesslyn even tried a tactic featured in the show. One of the contestants, CrossFitter Hwang Bit-yeo-ul, was shown locking her arms around one knee. In the first episode of "Physical: 100", Hwang achieved third place out of her group of 50 participants with her arm-lock technique. This TikToker managed to clock two minutes.

A marketing team got in on the action too.

A Korean TikToker managed to achieve a record timing of six minutes. TikTok user @godslifefromtoday completed the challenge as part of a "Physical: 100" marketing campaign by Netflix Korea, where participants could choose between easy and hard mode, and stand to win prizes including Airpods Pro (2nd Generation).

But fans should be warned before trying the challenge, as over-exertion may lead to some dangerous effects, according to Kim Kyung-Baek, the ex-UDT instructor who came in second place overall in the hanging challenge.

Kim posted on his instagram account sharing his experience after the show. "I thought my arms would return after a day. Didn't know they would be numb for two months," Kim said in his caption.

The next two episodes will be available on Netflix on February 14, with additional challenges for eager watchers to conquer.