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Rock Climbing Calories

bouldermal
bouldermal Posts: 5 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Hey Everyone!

Any thoughts on the amount of calories burned while bouldering? I'm at the gym 2.5 hours/session. 20-30 minutes of this is warm up and technique, 20 minutes stretching for cool down and realistically around 1 hour of true hard climbing. The rest I spent socializing and planning routes. When I'm climbing I do short bursts going all out; around 4 climbs continuous.

I'm a 24 year old female, 5'7 and 127ibs.

Thanks!

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  • Pam_Shebamm
    Pam_Shebamm Posts: 167 Member
    When I boulder, I just log my whole session as strength training. It probably burns more than that, but I feel like the actual selection for rock climbing is extremely over-inflated.
  • julie_broadhead
    julie_broadhead Posts: 178 Member
    It is overinflated. If you were doing an endurance session of traversing or repeating long routes of moderate difficulty with minimal rest, I could see that type of calorie burn. Logging as either gymnastics or strength training is a good idea.
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