ROCK CLIMBING FOR ADULTS

One, you score a marvelous workout that works the muscles in your entire body (and not just one or two body parts like with bicep curls), trains your stamina and stimulates your mind.

Climbers will agree it is addictive trying to solve “problems” on the rock walls. Every few weeks new problems are set up. Every few years (or it seems few months, in recent times!), a new style of climbing emerges. Rock climbing is constantly evolving, it is never stagnant.

Solving rock climbing problems is so much more palatable than the real-life problems we have to tackle.

All these colourful rocks on the walls are called holds. They could be handholds or footholds and are made to simulate the outdoor climbing environment in an indoor climbing facility.

Each coloured set of holds represents one rock climbing route. So if you see many colours on the rock climbing walls in an indoor climbing gym, you actually are seeing many routes! Here, we call it “rainbow” (to be used as a verb, i.e. “You can rainbow up a wall.” Lovely, isn’t it?).

Two, you are entertained while working out (hard!). We promise you won’t feel any of the monotony that comes from repeating the sets of exercises you perform at the gym, or from running endlessly on the treadmill, because there’s just so many different routes to unlock! Bid adieu to long, painful hours in the regular gym.

Each climbing route is a puzzle for climbers to solve, and each differs in intensity and difficulty levels. In fact, if you’d like to ascend a wall without following a particular route, that’s fine too!