How many times a week should I go to the climbing gym?

How many times a week should I go to the climbing gym?

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Going to the climbing gym is a great workout, but you have to be careful to not hurt yourself because gym climbing -- and the same goes for bouldering and sport climbing -- tend to be very athletic forms of rock climbing. I'm a firm believer of day-on, day-off, generally. If you're in the middle of working on a sequence or a problem and you've got the itch, then you may go a a couple days in a row. But I try not to climb, unless I'm on a trip, more than probably day-on, day-off, depending on how long you climbed before. If you're just going to go by working a bouldering sequence for half an hour, I know a lot of people who go almost everyday and do something like that, but I wouldn't suggest a marathon gym session almost every day.