climbing is good for you, whoda thunk?

[granite_grrl]

Grabbed thsi off another board this morning. Its a list of sports that are supossed to be good for your body. Climbing nabbed spot #3.

http://www.karemar.com/blog/top-ten-10-best-sports-your-body

[Fred]

oh my goodness. I don't know if I agree with that. The list of injuries is extensive.

[chossmonkey]

They were probably mostly looking at gym climbing. Though oddly I think I've been hurt more in the gym than outside.

[Fred]

They are probably generalizing for every day people who visit climbing gyms for exercise. Most chronic climbers seem to have beat-up bodies for the most part... or maybe it's just me. hehe

[Graham]

It says that climbing doesn't help with cardio. They clearly have never had to haul their gear 45 minutes uphill to get to a cliff.

[granite_grrl]

I liked this about #7 - Cycling:

Funny, then, that cycling has one of the highest injury rates of any sport--accounting for more than 500,000 emergency room visits each year, according to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Yeah, I will say that I have been injured more frequently on the bike than I have while climbing (while the severity of climbing accidents can be much worse, it doesn't result in as many twisted ankles, broken arms etc.).

For mountain biking at least. I wonder how frequently people who stick on the road end up getting hurt.

[martha]

I suspect that many of the cycling injuries are from collisions with other bikers or with objects....not from the actual action of riding.