If you’re the type of person who went to the gym and, genuinely, signed up for a programme that involved a row of machines you had to move through in a prescribed number of repetitions while staring at a clock in a fluorescent-lit room, with a huge number of people all doing the same thing, you probably stopped going to the gym, not because you’re lazy but because it didn’t motivate.
Bouldering fills a gap left by the conventional gym training model. When exercising for the sake of exercising, you quickly find yourself unmotivated. Bouldering thrives because it doesn’t just ask for exercise itself, but also gives a reason to exercise.
The bouldering problem is distinct from the gym workout because reps are not what you’re trying to do. You try to solve an interesting problem. This distinction shows how bouldering engages the mind just as much as the body. For Bouldering Cheltenham, contact https://www.270climbing.com/
You may have noticed that committed boulderers often (unprompted) describe themselves as having ‘hated the gym’ when talking about why they love bouldering.
It’s not really exercise that’s the issue. It’s the absence of a reason to care. Gyms often lack that. Bouldering provides a reason.
Bouldering’s unique appeal comes from providing a reason to exercise – and, just as importantly, a reason that you care about – when exercising.
For those who’ve stopped caring about exercise, why should you care now? Because you get to climb and solve problems while doing it.
