Tree-climbing gains popularity as a full-body, outdoor workout:
Tree-climbing is emerging as a recreational sport, similar to rock climbing.
Local instructor Guy Mott says tree-climbing builds muscles and can lead to improved fitness and weight loss.
“If you engage in a tree climb, it is a full-body workout. It is much more interactive and therapeutic to be outside as opposed to a gym,” said Mott. “It helps people to gain an appreciation for nature.”
Not only is it reliving, albeit in a limited fashion, one of the joys of childhood, but it’s experiencing it in a way that we did not as children but that we’ve forced onto them. Namely, it’s highly ritualized, highly supervised, taught in the right fashion, and with a bunch of safety equipment. It’s regression for the scaredy-cat set.
Juxtaposed, another headline in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today: Worker for tree removal company dies on the job.
Really.
Well, the more people in trees, the fewer people hogging the pec fly machine at the gym, so to each his own when it’s not the pec fly machine at the gym, I guess.
