If you’re looking for inspiration to switch up your workout routine, check out Kate Upton’s Instagram. The actress continuously shows off her physical feats on the app, including glute-building exercises, sled pulls, and, most recently, rock climbing. (
Each movement up the wall demands serious strength and endurance, so you can keep climbing even as you tire. Stability is necessary to keep your body up against the wall, and power comes into play as you burst upward and grab onto your next grip or foothold. "A climber will naturally build balance, coordination, breath control, dynamic stability, eye-hand/eye-foot coordination," Varisco told Shape.
Then there’s the mental aspect of the sport. Strapping yourself into a harness with the intention of scaling a wall can be a daunting concept, and it requires mental strength and endurance to reach the top of a climb. “Climbing for me provides a really unique mental and physical challenge, whereby you must be able to train your body to be in the best shape possible but also remember to train your mind,” Emily Harrington previously told Shape.
Take a page from Upton's book and look for a climbing gym in your area today to try out the full-body sport. If Upton's smile in her recent Instagram post is any indication, reaching the top of a climb is well worth the effort.
