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If you are wondering what's so great about rock-climbing, then it's probably time for you to know how amazing rock-climbing is. Rock climbing is more beneficial than you expect it to be, with a wide range of fantastic reasons why you should already include rock climbing in your routine.
Rock Climbing Exercises Your Entire Body
When you are opting for some fitness-based sports activities, say swimming, or tennis, or hiking, or you’re opting for gym sessions, what many people don’t know is that such activities, although very essential, are nevertheless focused on just a few sets of muscles. On the other hand, when you go for rock climbing, the muscles of your entire body get an overall workout, thus, making your body more supple, balanced and strong. Climbing is truly a total body workout that even incorporates fingertips and toes. Through climbing, you develop a lot of functional strength all over your body from the shoulder, back, arms and core muscles & lower limbs. It works on your muscle over an extended period which improves your muscular endurance. Complex movements and body positioning in climbing has a lot of similarity with yoga and improves flexibility.
Rock Climbing is Quite Easy
If you think that rock climbing is too difficult, then it’s probably because you haven’t tried it out yet. As complex as it seems, rock climbing is, in fact, quite easy to learn. And once you get the hang of it, you will never back out from it. The routes in rock climbing make it all the more fun.
Rock Climbing Makes You Confident
Different walls have different routes, which makes rock climbing even more fun and exciting. With each “problem” that you solve, you get better, and you get more confident. Apart from that, it also helps you overcome the fear of heights.
Moving Meditation
Climbing is considered among its practitioners as moving meditation. One of the best aspects of climbing is how the activity initiates a zen-like focus on the present moment and minds enter a meditative state. Goal setting, planning, execution and attention to details are all integral part of climbing. To complete a given climb the climber needs to plan the moves and execute them while paying attention to every detail that is necessary to complete it. Problem-solving in climbing is at its best. So many times, to compete for a climb, climbers need to come up with creative and novel ideas.
