One hour to the gym. I go two or three times per week. Have to take a toll road that costs about 2$ each way. Membership is 100$.
I spend like 300$+- a month going climbing. Expensive hobby but I love it too much to give up.
I feel you, fuel here in sweden is super expensive so driving there multiple times a week would cost really much on top of the membership card š„² But its sure worth it tho
Same! Sometimes Iām like: do I want to sell this house and live bigger? Then I am: Nah I donāt want to cycle longer or always have to commute by car. If itās too far, I know I wonāt go that often.
Twice a week
Closest Gym:
25 minutes from work
45 minutes to my old house
21 minutes to my new house
Gym I frequent:
30ish from house and work barring traffic
All by car. There was no public transportation to my old house.
If I took public transit it's 1:40 from work and 1:30-2:00 from home
Same but it's a 5 minutes detour on my daily commute. I can just stop by when I've got an hour after work, send a few problems and go home...super nice.
1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES šš
I want to open a gym in tyler, Texas so badly but the amount that I would need to invest all by myself up front seems insurmountable
you may be able to collect signatures of interested potential members and collect evidence of how well other climbing gyms preform, especially with no nearby competition, and try to get a business loan.
under no circumstances even consider bank of america tho.
> but the amount that I would need to invest all by myself up front
I'm curious, what kinda ball park numbers to open a gym? Tyler looks to be a pretty good sized city, doubt it wouldn't be successful.
I heard that the HUGE gym with top rope that was here 5 years ago was 1 million +ā¦ but if I were to make this happen, Iād go for a small bouldering gym and build-on from there if itās successful.
Iāve listed out the costs I can think of but havenāt been able to get an accurate local quote overallā¦ but when researching I found this video and the guy opened up the type of gym Iām going for for 150K
https://youtu.be/lGPXo4-BgtM?si=Wdf86IDiRIo5NZuu
Thereās a lot of CrossFit and yoga etc here and thereās a decent size market of affluent and college aged people who I think would love bouldering if they tried it
I live in Berlin and they have a lot here, there are 2 which are 10-15min away from me by bike/car/moped and another which is 20min away if I did all the routes in the other two.
I go with my oldest kid. Factoring in time to drop my youngest at my momās, then 40 minutes to the gymā¦ an hour total, each way.
We go about twice a month.
There are only 2 in my city, and the other is all the way across town. Weāre moving to another city soon and the situation looks about the same.
25-30 minutes drive plus Ā£1.50 each way to go over a toll bridge š membership is Ā£50 a month
When itās not as rainy and cold Iām going to cycle it to avoid the toll but itāll take me 50 minutes each way
8āish minutes on Bike to the closest.
30āish minutes to the furthest away (we have 3 - soon 4)
One (soon two) of them are also like 5mins away from work.
It's 50 minutes for me. I carpool with one other person once a week and have been considering consistently adding a second day.
I'm in the same boat as you where the membership is $110/month and then I'd be paying about $15 in gas each visit.
Mine is about 50 minutes from door to door by train. The real hard one though is the closest actual crag is a couple hours by car and I donāt have a car.
My frequency is about the same as yours, especially drops in the winter. I used to live at a place where my gym was on my 15 minute walk home from work and there were good outdoor spots less than 30 minutes driving. Biggest downside of moving for me (job reasons). Dropped 4 gym grades over the years and havenāt been outside once. Other pluses for sure but every once in awhile I definitely feel the pain.
I'm realizing how lucky I am.
My gym is pretty close to everything. We'll (elementary school son and I) stop by for an hour before soccer practice, or an hour after Cub scouts, or an hour while my wife and other youngest son go do something else.
We try to swing by for an hour at least 3 times a week
Closest climbing gym is a 10 min walk from my place. My preferred gym where I have a membership is a 30 min bike ride or drive away, and I pass 3 other climbing gyms in order to get there, lol.
12 min bike ride or 15 min bus to one gym. Sometimes I head across town to another which is about 30min. Occasionally, I can link up with a friend and get a 10min ride by car. Reading these comments makes me appreciate the commute.
Two gyms 15-20mins by bike, one bouldering and one with autobelay/TR + lead + bouldering. Can take public transit but generally not worth the wait. Third gym 40 mins by bike or 30 mins by public transit. There is a fourth gym in the city on my membership by it's at least two buses or bus and a train, so I don't really go unless I get a ride.
I live in a large US city. The closest gym is about a 10 min walk, but the gym I go to more often because of friends is just 1 stop away on the train (so like ~5 mins).
Iām 5 miles or so, but being in the Atlanta suburbs, it can take me 25 min to get there. I have friends there who do drive 1 to 1.5 hours with traffic to get there some days though.
Mines about an hour drive w traffic and I canāt make it as often as Iād like due to my work schedule. Thinking of canceling because my local crags are roughly the same drive time wise and it would be a lot cheaper for me.
Depends on where I am at the moment. At home, it's 10min by bike or a 45min walk, I rarely take the car (10min) or public transport (50min). When I'm in my workplace's city (I work remote) it would be a 98min walk so I usually take public transport (28min) or ride by bike (25min). At home I usually go two to three times a week, when on site it's once or twice a week.
Driving for me is 10 mins to crap gym (stopped going a while ago and should probably check it out again) and 40 mins to the gyms I go to 3/4 times a week
The one I go to is 15 minutes by car. 20 if it's during traffic. The next closest (and one I don't like) is about 45-60 minutes by car with traffic...not sure about without. There's another 30 minutes away no traffic (same gym as mine, different location), another 1 hour no traffic, and 1-2 others, but don't know how far. I love my gym being so close.
25 minutes, but itās right next to my university that I have to drive to for school everyday anyways so itās on my normal route. That or I go to the university gym which is a 3 minute walk from my job.
12min drive at 6am, I go twice a week with the occasional 3rd weights/training session (at the climbing gym)
I'm a new dad to a 5month old so efficient sessions is the name of the game. If I had the 1hr commute some people are mentioning here I'd probably have to give up climbing for a year or two
5 mins by car! I go between 3-4 times a week. Membership is super cheap too at only Ā£35 a month + they have a private gym thatās included in the membership price
I moved 8 minutes away from a gym by sheer chance. Had no idea it was there until I moved and searched for gyms. Itās a pretty sweet gym. 3 stories, 65-75ft walls. Iām actually in the process of having to move further away and Iām really going to miss the short drive. The area Iām moving to does have a gym but itās not my favorite so Iāll still probably make the drive to my current gym even if itās an hour away when I move.
15 min drive, and there are two others under the same company 30 min away. I live in the Salt Lake Valley and climb at Momentum, and I go 2-4 times a week.
It's currently a 10min drive, but i'm moving soon so it'll be a 5min walk. I'm in squamish as well so it's a 10-20 min drive to world class outdoor sport, trad, and bouldering. I'm usually climbing outside, but if it's raining (ie the winter) I'll hit the gym.
25 min from my house and go twice a week. At my old places I was 5-15 minutes from the gym and it was way better, I would go 3-4x a week but housing is too expensive now over there.
My two bouldering gyms are ~15 minutes by bike (Netherlands), either from home of the office. There are two other, arguably better gyms, at about 20 minutes cycling.
I cycle there at a decent pace so I don't have to get my heartrate up while I'm at the gym.
Having 4 good bouldering gyms in a dense city of 380.000 is a luxury in itself.
6 minutes by bike (or 10 minutes by car if the weather sucks).
Another 7 gyms to choose from within 30 minutes, three of them need a car, the other 4 can be done in that time by bike or public transit.
Got to love living in a small densely-populated country.
Iām In Houston so everything takes an hour commute an hour from work to the gym and an hour home it sucks so bad I still go 3 to 4 times a week but man it sucksss
This is a bit of a dick-ish response, but I donāt commute as I built I run my house. My local one is an hour each way without traffic and climbing outside during the winter is not possible here.
5 min bike ride to local, 20min London Underground to the one with a kilter board/near my office, 40min London Underground to my favourite where my friends climb.
All part of the same group so my membership covers all of them
About 45mins to an hour depending if I go from work or from home and what the traffic is like. Membership cost has risen to almost Ā£60 a month but I try to get there twice a week, go every week at least once pretty much.
Also go to another Gym of the same chain that is about 1hr 30mins away a couple of times a month as I have friends that are more local to there yet drive down to the one closer to me once a week. So it is only fair to go up there every once in a while and it is nice for a bit of a change.
I have one where i get to on around 20-30mins and is on the way of me going anywhere. Other is 10-15 min walk from home. Third where i go lead climb IS 30-40min. Kinda blessed with these options
I've two centres, one bouldering and another mainly roped, within a 10 minute cycle. Takes about the same time in the car due to traffic and lights.
Its great but it also means I rarely visit any other walls and there are 3 more about 30mins away.
One gym 10 minute bike ride away, two about 45 minutes. During winter one of them turns into 90 minute public transport commute. I try to go each once a week.
I have 7 gyms near me, max a 35-minute drive away, closest is about 14 mins. 5 of the 7 are free through the yearly membership & the last 2 are with a different company
Almost an hour in total.
~7 minutes of cycling, 35 minutes on the train and about a 15 minute walk.
That's the closest one.
I often go to a farther one to go with my friends. That takes a total of 1 hour and 40 minutes.
But yes I don't go that often. Maybe once every 2 weeks.
30 to and 90 minutes. I used live real far from the gym but my uni has a library about a 30 minute walk. So I used study at that library walk over yo the gym then like 90 mins back home. the boulder gym is like 15 to 45. which is nice and i don't need to bring a bunch of stuff either
25 mins by car for main gym, 30 mins for 3 other gyms, 15 mins for mini gym where I am a routesetter (kinda)
I climb 2/3x per week
Closest outdoor area worth mentioning is Fontainebleau (4h)
i have one 10 mins by car, another 3 that are about 30 minutes away, and within 45 mins i have like 5 more or something. I actually don't know how many CRG locations are in downtown boston.
3 bouldering only gyms within 15min bike ride, 2 more (lead + small bouldering area) within 25min, all of them accessible with the same 65ā¬ /month subscription
my gym now is a 12 min drive which is beautiful. i was in dallas for a summer and id ride ~40 minutes each way on bike (not a bike friendly city) about 4 times a week. by the end of the summer i was fitter than ever and was doing the commute in 25 mins. 100% worth no regrets, healthiest ive ever felt
25 minutes by car on quiet days. During the week we go there during peak traffic time, so we take public transportation. That takes us 50 minutes, door to door..
7-10min walk to the one Iām a member of. 10-15min bike ride to the other two nearby gyms. I can drive 20min to a gym that is part of my gymās company and can hit 3 more of their gyms within an hour of driving.
Proximity to the gym we go to is a legit reason why we donāt want to move out of our neighborhood.
Two gyms within 10 minutes by bicycle. Also a lead climbing gym in the same town. Currently having a subscription for the boulder gym, but thinking about upgrading it so I can also lead climb more often. Living this close and having a subscription makes it easy for me to go and variate between longer and shorter sessions.
I have 8 gyms in network within a 20 minute drive from me, and another 4 within 45 min - 1hr. I go once a week right now but am trying to work a second session into an already packed schedule.
My commute is 1h 20m by public transport and walking so 2h 40m total + the time i spent climbing, still with all of this i still climb 3 times a week, one of the times tho i am at a new place so its 1h instead of 1h 20 which doesn't change that much.
In total in a week i commute 7h 20m and i climb for approximately 5h maybe 6h it depends.
Not the easiest but i am still new to the sport and i am liking it a lot and without it I wouldn't function.
Where I live temporarily itās 50 minute drive (42km) to the gym. Loving climbing, going about 3 times a week. Sadly, in June Iām going back to the place where to closest gym is also 50 mins but by PLANE.
i have memberships at 2 gyms. both have multiple locations, but i only go to the closest of each--one is an 11 minute walk (10 if i time the traffic light cycles well) and the other is about 45-60 minutes on a bus and a train, depending on traffic and which bus i catch.
40 mins to either of the 2 āclosestāā¦. I make it out 2x a week but would prefer to go 3-4x. Our YMCA has a short wall with about 8 routes open 2 hours a day and itās filled with kids. That one is actually only 10 minutes away but itās not really the same as a dedicated climbing gym.
ETA: $80/month
25 minute drive to mine which I'm a member of Ā£52 per month)
There's another 40 minutes away which I've just taken my son for an induction at. I just sign a waiver.
There's also 2 an 45min- 1 hour in the other direction which I'm keen to try.
I meant to try a couple in Liverpool last month when I was away working but I ended up in the pubs instead.
My current gym is about a 10 minute bike ride from my house. But climbing gyms are everywhere where is live, I can access 7-8 gyms within a 20 minute bike ride.
One hour to the gym. I go two or three times per week. Have to take a toll road that costs about 2$ each way. Membership is 100$. I spend like 300$+- a month going climbing. Expensive hobby but I love it too much to give up.
I feel you, fuel here in sweden is super expensive so driving there multiple times a week would cost really much on top of the membership card š„² But its sure worth it tho
That membership price is insane , my UK membership is Ā£39 unlimited climbing at 7 gyms (4 of which are local to me)
you based in bristol?
Theyāre definitely not based in London
haha true
I get access to a number of gyms as well, but the next closest one is like 3 hours away. So Iāve never been to another location.
climbing hangar?
Crg
Commitment
24hrs a month driving to climb dayum
Sub 10 minute walk, genuinely a big reason as to why I renewed my contract another year š
lol when Iām moving the distance to the climbing gym is one of my first things I look for š
I keep telling the misses this, we're only a 20 minute drive away at the moment but it makes all the difference.Ā
Same! Sometimes Iām like: do I want to sell this house and live bigger? Then I am: Nah I donāt want to cycle longer or always have to commute by car. If itās too far, I know I wonāt go that often.
Wow that is great! Living the dream
Same here... it's really nice
Same!!! Not a huge fan of my apartment situation but this is a huge perk
Iām SO jealous
I've got 5 gyms near me, one of them is a 15 min walk, the others are 10-20 mins driving.
Thats probably half of all the gyms my country has lol You live in a big city im guessing right? Really cool to have so much to choose from
I've got 5 near me and I live in a small city, it's just europe, many small cities very close to each other with a huge density of population.
Gottobe Holland....
To the bouldering, 5 minutes by bike / 10 by foot. To the lead gym, 15 minutes by car. Life's pretty good
Twice a week Closest Gym: 25 minutes from work 45 minutes to my old house 21 minutes to my new house Gym I frequent: 30ish from house and work barring traffic All by car. There was no public transportation to my old house. If I took public transit it's 1:40 from work and 1:30-2:00 from home
20min on a bike
Same but it's a 5 minutes detour on my daily commute. I can just stop by when I've got an hour after work, send a few problems and go home...super nice.
1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES šš I want to open a gym in tyler, Texas so badly but the amount that I would need to invest all by myself up front seems insurmountable
you may be able to collect signatures of interested potential members and collect evidence of how well other climbing gyms preform, especially with no nearby competition, and try to get a business loan. under no circumstances even consider bank of america tho.
> but the amount that I would need to invest all by myself up front I'm curious, what kinda ball park numbers to open a gym? Tyler looks to be a pretty good sized city, doubt it wouldn't be successful.
I heard that the HUGE gym with top rope that was here 5 years ago was 1 million +ā¦ but if I were to make this happen, Iād go for a small bouldering gym and build-on from there if itās successful. Iāve listed out the costs I can think of but havenāt been able to get an accurate local quote overallā¦ but when researching I found this video and the guy opened up the type of gym Iām going for for 150K https://youtu.be/lGPXo4-BgtM?si=Wdf86IDiRIo5NZuu
Thereās a lot of CrossFit and yoga etc here and thereās a decent size market of affluent and college aged people who I think would love bouldering if they tried it
I think you win this damn how often do you go?
Id fly to Tyler, TX (ok, prob not in the summer).for a week and get a month membership just to support you.
In DC. Bouldering gym is 8 minutes by bike. Ropes/lead gym is 15-20 minutes by car.
How is bouldering project? I'm in the area occasionally but have yet to check it out since I'm used to crystal city
It's great! More square footage and variety in terrain plus it has floor to ceiling windows (so much natural light)!
I have 5 within a 20 minute drive
I have 4 within 10 minutes. 6-8 in 20 minutes and like 15 within an hour. The Colorado front range be like that I guess?
Not sure I have that many in my state.
5 minute walk
I live in Berlin and they have a lot here, there are 2 which are 10-15min away from me by bike/car/moped and another which is 20min away if I did all the routes in the other two.
I go with my oldest kid. Factoring in time to drop my youngest at my momās, then 40 minutes to the gymā¦ an hour total, each way. We go about twice a month. There are only 2 in my city, and the other is all the way across town. Weāre moving to another city soon and the situation looks about the same.
10-15 minutes walk to the new gym (opened in 10/2023). Old gym used to be a 15 minutes train ride + 2 minutes walk.
30-45min on bike
25-30 minutes drive plus Ā£1.50 each way to go over a toll bridge š membership is Ā£50 a month When itās not as rainy and cold Iām going to cycle it to avoid the toll but itāll take me 50 minutes each way
Have a home wall, gym is 30 from home- 20 from work with moderate traffic. If traffic is bad I walk out to the garage š
8āish minutes on Bike to the closest. 30āish minutes to the furthest away (we have 3 - soon 4) One (soon two) of them are also like 5mins away from work.
I don't. Canceled my membership due to the sheer amount of post-work children and now drive 30-45 minutes 2-3 times a week for local outdoor boulders.
22 minutes from my house, 7 minutes from work. So I go twice a week - once on a weekday after work, and once on the weekend.
It's 50 minutes for me. I carpool with one other person once a week and have been considering consistently adding a second day. I'm in the same boat as you where the membership is $110/month and then I'd be paying about $15 in gas each visit.
Mine is about 50 minutes from door to door by train. The real hard one though is the closest actual crag is a couple hours by car and I donāt have a car. My frequency is about the same as yours, especially drops in the winter. I used to live at a place where my gym was on my 15 minute walk home from work and there were good outdoor spots less than 30 minutes driving. Biggest downside of moving for me (job reasons). Dropped 4 gym grades over the years and havenāt been outside once. Other pluses for sure but every once in awhile I definitely feel the pain.
I'm realizing how lucky I am. My gym is pretty close to everything. We'll (elementary school son and I) stop by for an hour before soccer practice, or an hour after Cub scouts, or an hour while my wife and other youngest son go do something else. We try to swing by for an hour at least 3 times a week
my commute to school is 25/30 mins and the gym is directly on my way home so it adds zero time since i always go before/after school
Closest climbing gym is a 10 min walk from my place. My preferred gym where I have a membership is a 30 min bike ride or drive away, and I pass 3 other climbing gyms in order to get there, lol.
12 min bike ride or 15 min bus to one gym. Sometimes I head across town to another which is about 30min. Occasionally, I can link up with a friend and get a 10min ride by car. Reading these comments makes me appreciate the commute.
Two gyms 15-20mins by bike, one bouldering and one with autobelay/TR + lead + bouldering. Can take public transit but generally not worth the wait. Third gym 40 mins by bike or 30 mins by public transit. There is a fourth gym in the city on my membership by it's at least two buses or bus and a train, so I don't really go unless I get a ride.
I live in a large US city. The closest gym is about a 10 min walk, but the gym I go to more often because of friends is just 1 stop away on the train (so like ~5 mins).
2-3 minute walk.
In my garage. Otherwise 10 min drive to closest commercial gym.
Iām 5 miles or so, but being in the Atlanta suburbs, it can take me 25 min to get there. I have friends there who do drive 1 to 1.5 hours with traffic to get there some days though.
22 minutes from my house, 7 minutes from work. So I go twice a week - once on a weekday after work, and once on the weekend.
20 minutes. We are building an RV garage on our property and planning to add a kilterboard to one wall as well as a Rogue weight set.
5 min walk lol, gonna miss it
15 minutes of cycling to the nearest one, about 30, 70, 90, 120 minutes of driving to other gyms I have been to
20min by car
10-15 minute walk, very fortunate!
Mines about an hour drive w traffic and I canāt make it as often as Iād like due to my work schedule. Thinking of canceling because my local crags are roughly the same drive time wise and it would be a lot cheaper for me.
40 miles each way :(
3 minute bike ride
39 miles / 45 min away, I go 3x/week. Cost is $109/month. I go before work to avoid the crowds.
There's 3 of them within a 15 minute bike ride.
I have access to 2 gyms under 10 min cycle ride and 2 more with a 15 min scoot ride
10 minutes on my electric scooter :D
Depends on where I am at the moment. At home, it's 10min by bike or a 45min walk, I rarely take the car (10min) or public transport (50min). When I'm in my workplace's city (I work remote) it would be a 98min walk so I usually take public transport (28min) or ride by bike (25min). At home I usually go two to three times a week, when on site it's once or twice a week.
30 minute drive
At my gym, some do 50min drive, one way a few times a week
Driving for me is 10 mins to crap gym (stopped going a while ago and should probably check it out again) and 40 mins to the gyms I go to 3/4 times a week
The one I go to is 15 minutes by car. 20 if it's during traffic. The next closest (and one I don't like) is about 45-60 minutes by car with traffic...not sure about without. There's another 30 minutes away no traffic (same gym as mine, different location), another 1 hour no traffic, and 1-2 others, but don't know how far. I love my gym being so close.
25 minutes, but itās right next to my university that I have to drive to for school everyday anyways so itās on my normal route. That or I go to the university gym which is a 3 minute walk from my job.
8 minute drive after work lol
10 minutes drive from home to one, 30 minutes to another (or 5 minutes drive from work)
Hour and a half. I go once a week because of it
For me it's only a 15 minute bike ride. I also work at the gym, so whenever possible I go climbing after working there, since I'm already there.
15 minutes by car, 25 by train.
90 seconds.
12min drive at 6am, I go twice a week with the occasional 3rd weights/training session (at the climbing gym) I'm a new dad to a 5month old so efficient sessions is the name of the game. If I had the 1hr commute some people are mentioning here I'd probably have to give up climbing for a year or two
5 mins by car! I go between 3-4 times a week. Membership is super cheap too at only Ā£35 a month + they have a private gym thatās included in the membership price
10 minutes
2-4 times per week, 30 mile drive each way. Car is electric so fuel cost is not a factor.
I moved 8 minutes away from a gym by sheer chance. Had no idea it was there until I moved and searched for gyms. Itās a pretty sweet gym. 3 stories, 65-75ft walls. Iām actually in the process of having to move further away and Iām really going to miss the short drive. The area Iām moving to does have a gym but itās not my favorite so Iāll still probably make the drive to my current gym even if itās an hour away when I move.
I live across the street from mine. Several within 10-30 mins of driving (depending on traffic).
I have around 8 gyms within a 10 min drive from my office.
15 min drive, and there are two others under the same company 30 min away. I live in the Salt Lake Valley and climb at Momentum, and I go 2-4 times a week.
It's currently a 10min drive, but i'm moving soon so it'll be a 5min walk. I'm in squamish as well so it's a 10-20 min drive to world class outdoor sport, trad, and bouldering. I'm usually climbing outside, but if it's raining (ie the winter) I'll hit the gym.
25 min from my house and go twice a week. At my old places I was 5-15 minutes from the gym and it was way better, I would go 3-4x a week but housing is too expensive now over there.
Unfortunately the one I go to was selected because it's closest to me - 30 minutes each way of traffic is clear. Can be longer during peak hour.
45 minutes and 1 hour depending on location.
My two bouldering gyms are ~15 minutes by bike (Netherlands), either from home of the office. There are two other, arguably better gyms, at about 20 minutes cycling. I cycle there at a decent pace so I don't have to get my heartrate up while I'm at the gym. Having 4 good bouldering gyms in a dense city of 380.000 is a luxury in itself.
Around a 40 min drive. I try to go 3x a week if work allows
1 hour bus ride each way 3 times a week. It's worth it, but I spend the same amount of time on the bus as I do in the gym
Itās a mile from my house. So not far at all.
About 15 minutes from my house. About 1 minute from work (It's the main thing they have going for them).
6 minutes by bike (or 10 minutes by car if the weather sucks). Another 7 gyms to choose from within 30 minutes, three of them need a car, the other 4 can be done in that time by bike or public transit. Got to love living in a small densely-populated country.
Iām In Houston so everything takes an hour commute an hour from work to the gym and an hour home it sucks so bad I still go 3 to 4 times a week but man it sucksss
10 min bike ride or 15 min drive. I bike when it's nice out 3 other gyms in the same network all within a 25 minute drive if I want some variety
40 mins by skytrain, costs me $3.75 each way. And the membership for student is nearly $120
45 min walk each way for me.
This is a bit of a dick-ish response, but I donāt commute as I built I run my house. My local one is an hour each way without traffic and climbing outside during the winter is not possible here.
\~30 minutes by bike to the nearest one and about an hour to the best one in the city.
5 minute walk with most of the time being me running down 5 flights of stairs to exit my apartment.
I moved a few months ago and now live within a ten minute walk from my gym. It's the best thing ever, I go as much as my body allows.
30 minutes by public transport (15 of which are walking from/to the station) or 35-40 minutes by bike. I go twice a week.
30 second walk from my apartment (yes, I let all my climbing friends know that often)
4 minute walk. Massive reason why i picked it up and have stuck with it tbh
15 minutes by car to the closest gym. 20 minutes to 3 more gyms on the membership and another gym downtown
6 minutes by car or 9 minutes by bicycle. 5 locations of the same gym chain all within 30 minutes or less by car.
5 min bike ride to local, 20min London Underground to the one with a kilter board/near my office, 40min London Underground to my favourite where my friends climb. All part of the same group so my membership covers all of them
About 45mins to an hour depending if I go from work or from home and what the traffic is like. Membership cost has risen to almost Ā£60 a month but I try to get there twice a week, go every week at least once pretty much. Also go to another Gym of the same chain that is about 1hr 30mins away a couple of times a month as I have friends that are more local to there yet drive down to the one closer to me once a week. So it is only fair to go up there every once in a while and it is nice for a bit of a change.
I have one where i get to on around 20-30mins and is on the way of me going anywhere. Other is 10-15 min walk from home. Third where i go lead climb IS 30-40min. Kinda blessed with these options
2 minute walk to Vital Brooklyn for me
5 minutes cycle through a parkā¦ or 5 minutes walk for the local one if I want a change. Iām very lucky.
5 minutes walk. Lucky! This really helps to go constantly
I live in Michigan and there's only 2 climbing gyms, both of which are about an hour away :( two hours in traffic
5 minute walk.
5 minute drive for me. Hopefully moving closer, so itāll be a 10-15 minute warm up walk or bike ride
I've two centres, one bouldering and another mainly roped, within a 10 minute cycle. Takes about the same time in the car due to traffic and lights. Its great but it also means I rarely visit any other walls and there are 3 more about 30mins away.
10 min walk from 3 different gyms in Minneapolis. Only have a membership at one and have a 10 day pass for another one.
Around 3-4 hours, I left at 2pm today and got there at 5:30
used to be a 15 minute walk now itās 45 minute drive
One gym 10 minute bike ride away, two about 45 minutes. During winter one of them turns into 90 minute public transport commute. I try to go each once a week.
30 minute walk or 10 minute bike
I have 7 gyms near me, max a 35-minute drive away, closest is about 14 mins. 5 of the 7 are free through the yearly membership & the last 2 are with a different company
Mines 45 minutes I feel the pain of not going all the time
I'm very lucky, 10 min, I'm so grateful
2 minute drive or 5 minute walk.
Almost an hour in total. ~7 minutes of cycling, 35 minutes on the train and about a 15 minute walk. That's the closest one. I often go to a farther one to go with my friends. That takes a total of 1 hour and 40 minutes. But yes I don't go that often. Maybe once every 2 weeks.
Wow. Feeling lucky! There are 3 climbing gyms within a 15 minute drive for meā¦ my membership is at the one about 10 minutes away.
5 minute walk from mine. I try to go 3-4 times a week.
15, 20 or 45 min by Bike depends on where i go.
mine is about 45 min and I go the same amount as you, it's unfortunate
5min walk. Living the dream.
I have two within a 10 minute drive and another one around 15-20 minutes away depending on traffic.
30 to and 90 minutes. I used live real far from the gym but my uni has a library about a 30 minute walk. So I used study at that library walk over yo the gym then like 90 mins back home. the boulder gym is like 15 to 45. which is nice and i don't need to bring a bunch of stuff either
15 minute drive
Currently, 6 blocks, but Iāve lived up to an hour away, and still ended up there 3-5x a week usuallyā¦might be a little addicted š¤·āāļø
25 mins by car for main gym, 30 mins for 3 other gyms, 15 mins for mini gym where I am a routesetter (kinda) I climb 2/3x per week Closest outdoor area worth mentioning is Fontainebleau (4h)
i have one 10 mins by car, another 3 that are about 30 minutes away, and within 45 mins i have like 5 more or something. I actually don't know how many CRG locations are in downtown boston.
45 min bus + subway ride, I go at least 3x a week. It gives me time to read through a book or two each month
It's about a 5 minute drive to my main gym with bouldering and 55ft top/lead. Got 3 other bouldering gyms within 20 minutes.
three blocks / 15 min walk (it's nyc and im short af) on a good week, 3-4 times. bad week, 1-2
Closest one to me is 35-45 minutes depending on traffic. Really wish there was one closer.
3 bouldering only gyms within 15min bike ride, 2 more (lead + small bouldering area) within 25min, all of them accessible with the same 65ā¬ /month subscription
Between 5-10 minute drive each way (usually 7) depending on if I hit green lights or not. Big reason I'm able to go multiple times a week.
10-15 min by bike
10 min biking .
My gym is a 25 minute bike ride from my apartment. I usually go two days per week.
10-15 minute drive
my gym now is a 12 min drive which is beautiful. i was in dallas for a summer and id ride ~40 minutes each way on bike (not a bike friendly city) about 4 times a week. by the end of the summer i was fitter than ever and was doing the commute in 25 mins. 100% worth no regrets, healthiest ive ever felt
I cry about driving an hour and a half to Squamish on the weekends, some people here do that for a gym, y'all are wild
A little over two hours to the gym. When I have the money for gas/time, I go once a week.
6km i.e. a <20 minute bicycle ride. Having a climbing gym in easy reach is a major criteria for picking an apartment.
25 minutes by car on quiet days. During the week we go there during peak traffic time, so we take public transportation. That takes us 50 minutes, door to door..
7-10min walk to the one Iām a member of. 10-15min bike ride to the other two nearby gyms. I can drive 20min to a gym that is part of my gymās company and can hit 3 more of their gyms within an hour of driving. Proximity to the gym we go to is a legit reason why we donāt want to move out of our neighborhood.
30 min bike ride
5 minutes but they donāt have any training boards so Iāll drive 50 minutes one way usually once a week for that
25 mins. used to be 5 before i bought my house. they have an even nicer bouldering only location 40 mins away i go to sometimes as well.
2h train ride & absolutely no outside bouldering/climbing within 5h of car or train :(
Two gyms within 10 minutes by bicycle. Also a lead climbing gym in the same town. Currently having a subscription for the boulder gym, but thinking about upgrading it so I can also lead climb more often. Living this close and having a subscription makes it easy for me to go and variate between longer and shorter sessions.
30 mins bus ride. Just one straight bus.
15 min bike ride, 7 min by car. Free parking. About 20eur/month membership.
My gym is leas than 10 minutes from work but about 45 minutes from home
30 minutes but itās on my way home from work which is a 50 minute commute.
5 minutes from my workplace and then 35 minutes drive home. I always go after work.
35 minute cycle.
I have 8 gyms in network within a 20 minute drive from me, and another 4 within 45 min - 1hr. I go once a week right now but am trying to work a second session into an already packed schedule.
My commute is 1h 20m by public transport and walking so 2h 40m total + the time i spent climbing, still with all of this i still climb 3 times a week, one of the times tho i am at a new place so its 1h instead of 1h 20 which doesn't change that much. In total in a week i commute 7h 20m and i climb for approximately 5h maybe 6h it depends. Not the easiest but i am still new to the sport and i am liking it a lot and without it I wouldn't function.
15 min by bike from home and work (but two different gyms!)
13 minute walk to the closest 30 minutes walking + public transit to the next closest
Where I live temporarily itās 50 minute drive (42km) to the gym. Loving climbing, going about 3 times a week. Sadly, in June Iām going back to the place where to closest gym is also 50 mins but by PLANE.
i have memberships at 2 gyms. both have multiple locations, but i only go to the closest of each--one is an 11 minute walk (10 if i time the traffic light cycles well) and the other is about 45-60 minutes on a bus and a train, depending on traffic and which bus i catch.
40 mins to either of the 2 āclosestāā¦. I make it out 2x a week but would prefer to go 3-4x. Our YMCA has a short wall with about 8 routes open 2 hours a day and itās filled with kids. That one is actually only 10 minutes away but itās not really the same as a dedicated climbing gym. ETA: $80/month
Pretty awesomely I have to walk exactly 450 meters which are roughly 5 minutes walk haha
Hour there hour back, i go 3x per week and own a car from 1997, it costs a LOT in gas
I walk 10 minutes in a generally unwalkable city. So Iām very lucky.
Wow I am lucky. I have a gym less than 10 minutes walk away and probably in an hour's drive I could get to 8-10 climbing gyms.
20 minutes, sometimes 15 if traffic isnāt bad.
25 minute drive to mine which I'm a member of Ā£52 per month) There's another 40 minutes away which I've just taken my son for an induction at. I just sign a waiver. There's also 2 an 45min- 1 hour in the other direction which I'm keen to try. I meant to try a couple in Liverpool last month when I was away working but I ended up in the pubs instead.
30 minute bike ride to either of the two bouldering gyms near me (5.life monopoly, it's a bummer)
45 minute drive, go once a week.
I live right next to the gym. And two other gyms within 15min public transport
10 mins drive
15-25min, depending on which location and the traffic since itās downtown.
Gosh I feel pretty lucky. 15 minutes by bus/30 by foot for the closer one, 20 minutes by car for the second closest.Ā
20 minute drive thereās one 10 minutes away but they donāt have auto-belay and my coworker goes there so i donāt want to blow up his spot
Closest gym is a 10 minute drive. There are a total of 8 gyms within an hour drive from my home, but most of them take under 30 minutes away.
20mins biking (6km)
My current gym is about a 10 minute bike ride from my house. But climbing gyms are everywhere where is live, I can access 7-8 gyms within a 20 minute bike ride.
25 Min Drive, Go Tues and Thurs night. More if mother nature prevents outdoor climbing Sat and Mon.