25 Ways Rock Climbing Will Improve Your Sex Life

Climbing gets you out on the open road, under the big sky, doing something passionate, free of routine, answerable only to yourself. With a life like that, how could you be anything less than dead sexy?

One-armed pull up? Check. Front lever? Check. Bat-hang sit-up? Check. Sure, it's gimmicky, but it beats card tricks and negging, right?

"Climbers are sexy when they're able to provide you the secure feeling of being able to do two very important things: spot well when bouldering, and catch your falls on lead climbs," says Alfie, a nurse.

There are climbing locations in some of the most beautiful spots in the world, from Tonsai, Thailand to Squamish, British Columbia. Get out of your same old routine and into some sexy newness. Vacation sex is the best kind of sex.

Do you go hard and fast? Slow and controlled? Do you make a lot of noise? Are you about power or endurance? Do you have good technique? She'll be able to tell, and hopefully she likes what she sees.

"Who can resist a dirtbag?" asks Julia. "They don't shower because they're environmentally conscious. If someone secretly said: 'I don't have to try hard to be attractive, but I'll try hard on this boulder problem,' I'd want to meet that person."

"I find (most) climbers to be intelligent, since climbing stimulates one physically and mentally," says Shannon. "It seems that climbers care about things other than just themselves, which is super hot."

Do you know how many muscles are visible in the human back when it's flexed? I bet you she does.

Not to mention what you could rig with a couple harnesses and a few slings in a bedroom.

Knowing a man is a climber means that "they're adventurous and enjoy at least a little risk," says Shannon, an educator. Climbing involves exploring new terrain with your body, pushing your limits, and sweating and grunting to reach the peak. Can you think of something else like that?

Her life is in your hands. Your life is in her hands. When you're climbing on ropes, you literally hold each other's lives in your hands. Now, those hands are going to want to be elsewhere, but please keep them secured to the rope until you are both safely back on the ground.

Climbing on steep rock is basically like doing a plank, the whole time you're on the wall. You'll be able to bounce a dime off your abs, and I'm not talking about the coin.

Yeah, guys need flexibility, too. Otherwise, how are you going to be able to do this?

"Two words: Bicep Veins," says Julia, an occupational therapist. Pull-ups? Nah. Your arms will be more yoked than a Denver omelet, which you can make for her the morning after.

Rock climbing has a primal feel to it. You're doing something impossibly hard, taming the wild, with nothing but your hands and feet. It's man against nature, and she'll be rooting for you. "Most of all, the inward drive of the rock climber is what intrigues and fascinates me the most, but muscles are kinda nice," says Kaitlyn, a college student.

Don't be fluorescent orange. Get your color the way God intended a man to, which is in the woods, shirt off, and sweating. Bonus: if you bring your sweetie, she'll have sweet tan too.

"Strong, yet delicate hands" are what get Hayley, a college student's, blood pumping. What exactly do ladies have in mind for them, though? "Those fingers, though... [they're] all the better for holding my hands" says Jane, a biologist.

Movie. Jazz concert. Yawn, yawn, yawn. She's been on those dates a million times already. Mix it up and take her climbing. It's exciting, it's different, and you'll get to see her in her workout clothes.

One of the best feelings in climbing is the rush you feel when you finally make it to the top of a route you've been projecting. You feel like you're on top of the world, which you pretty much are, literally. It's lonely at the top though, baby, so rappel yourself back down to that lovely climbing partner and bask in the fact that she just witnessed your A-game.

A lot of climbing spots are located in epic road-trip territory: Yosemite, the Rockies, Joshua Tree, Zion. Beautiful scenery, sun, and fun, not to mention epic outdoor sex locales.

Ask around at a climbing gym and you'll hear that girls love watching guys climb. "You can check a guy out shamelessly while he's climbing," says Audrey, a graphic design student. "His back is to you so he'll never know." So next time you're on the wall getting vertical, feel good about the fact that your strength and poise are making her think about getting horizontal.

Guys aren't the only ones in the climbing gym getting buff. Plenty of lovely ladies also enjoy a nice, hard crank session, and you can be there to give them a spot, a wink, a smile, and a number.

There is a quote by Ernest Hemingway that is commonly used on the Internet: "There are only three true sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing, and motor racing. All the rest are mere child's play." While Hemingway probably didn't write it, we all know that looking death in the eye and not blinking is what makes babies cry, women fawn, and a man a man.

When you're a couple hundred feet off the ground, life suddenly gets a lot more interesting. There's nothing like looking down at the face of death and telling it to "fuck off" to help get your creative juices flowing.

Rock climbing will make you strong in ways that team sports never could. Every second you're on the wall, your arms, legs, core, and butt are getting wrecked. Think of it like a crossfit session where if you fail to complete a rep, somebody throws you off a mountain. Afterwards, use your newfound strength to one-arm carry your paramour to bed, King-Kong style; she'll be rearing to climb your skyscraper.