Rock-climbing, bouldering, rock wall, indoors, and outdoors. No matter your name or venue for it, bouldering revs up your body.
How many of you have access to or know where you can receive access to a rock wall?
For most indoor facilities, you have a certain height that you can climb to without the use of a harness and belay rope. Use this wall as a part of your warm-up.
Why?
1) It warms up the upper body muscles. Climbing a wall attacks your latissimus does or lats, for short. Your lats serve as an upper body powerhouse in most sports and activities.
2) When you climb, you push. Climbers look like Spiderman, right? Well, their legs push up the rock or boulder. To clear their hips from the wall or rock, climbers flex their hips, reach for the next step, and extend as they reach the next level. So, your legs get a jolt.
3) It's a full body workout. Running, sprinting, jumping, shooting a basketball, bowling, and swinging a bat among other skills are all full body movements. Rock climbing complements these moves.
4) Grabbing handholds and footholds > grabbing weight handles. Rockwall grips have different curves and angles on them. Perfect! Because they better challenge your grip than a straight bar.
As for the outdoors, you may find a rockwall on a fit course or on a playground. Use those as well, especially if you do not have access to a wall or scalable rocky structure in any other environment.
Climbing will not disappoint you!
Derek | @teemptraining derekteempt@gmail.com
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