| There are many positives of rock climbing. Most | | | | possible equipment for a little over $300. This is not |
| people view these benefits as far outweighing the | | | | expensive compared to the investment needed for |
| possibility of injury. | | | | equipment in some of the other extreme sports that |
| When you consider the positive aspects of rock | | | | are popular today. |
| climbing, you usually think first of the physical | | | | Perhaps, the most important benefit of rock climbing |
| benefits. Although rock climbing is practiced by both | | | | is what it does for your personal self confidence. This |
| genders and almost all ages, it is a sport that requires | | | | is something that is a bit hard to explain and really |
| a great deal of physical strength. Upper body | | | | has to be felt to be completely appreciated. Rock |
| strength is extremely important. Most people who | | | | climbers will speak of the tremendous sense of |
| become involved in the sport soon realize that they | | | | accomplishment and the exhilaration that comes at |
| must be in excellent shape to even begin to enjoy it. | | | | the end of a successful climb. When a person stands |
| This leads to an increase in physical conditioning that | | | | at the base of a rock face and looks up, the climb |
| is most often beneficial to the participants overall | | | | appears impossible. It is something that can not be |
| health. | | | | done. Yet, when you have done it, you begin to feel |
| The sport also requires a great deal of mental self | | | | that there is little that you can not do. |
| discipline. Many adherents of rock climbing point to | | | | Rock climbing has many positives. They are mental, |
| this as one of the biggest positives. It demands total | | | | physical, emotional, and financial benefits. There are |
| body awareness. Rock climbers often tell of how | | | | some risks of injury as well, but the thousands of |
| they never feel more alive than they do when they | | | | people who are taking up the sport and spreading it |
| are clinging to the side of a rock. They must be | | | | across the country feel the benefits far outweigh the |
| aware of exactly where their feet and hands are | | | | risks. The indoor climbing hills have given more and |
| located and every movement must be careful, slow, | | | | more people a chance to taste these benefits in a |
| and deliberate. | | | | place where the risks are the least, and many people |
| Among the other positives is the relatively low cost | | | | who first experience rock climbing on the artificial |
| of the equipment needed. Most experts claim that | | | | climbs there are soon hooked and ready for the real |
| the rock climber can be outfitted with the best | | | | thing outdoors. |