Rock climbing is a total-body workout that engages multiple muscle groups and helps to build strength, endurance, and flexibility. When you climb, you use your arms, legs, core, and back muscles to ...

Magnus Midtbø tests creatine supplementation to see how it affects elite climbing performance. The experiment focuses on grip strength, power output, and bodyweight changes over controlled sessions.

As indoor rock climbing’s popularity soars, independent climbing gyms are hitting a wall of competition and rising costs. Announcing the closure of GP81 in New York City and disappointing its most ...

This past summer, while I was top-roping with a friend at the climbing gym, I tweaked my left shoulder. It felt fine on the wall, but as soon as I was on the ground, I could tell I’d pulled some tiny ...

People are flocking back to indoor rock climbing gyms for the intense workouts and amiable social scene. It’s not as hard as it looks. By Erik Vance The first time John Sherman went rock climbing, he ...

For trans and nonbinary people, it can be hard to stay active when joining a sport is surrounded by politics. Trans Senders ...

Up, up, up the 30-foot rock wall at the rock-climbing venue in Island Rock in Plainview went Sara Glasser, reaching about the halfway point before allowing the strong ropes to bring her back to the ...