rewilder50+

Because growing old is the most hardcore thing you can do.

We’ve been fed this story: ageing is about decline and decay. A medical experience characterised by pharmaceutical interventions and surgeries. Too often we fall for this. We think we are fragile and should cocoon ourselves indoors, isolated from life.

No one gets out alive.

But we can make our later years and our marginal decade (the last decade of our life) a mobile life, independent of assisted living.

If we want to move without pain, adventure, and live independent of medication and surgery, appropriate levels of physical activity, and minimising stress and inflammation in the system is nonnegotiable.

For our clients 50 and up, with longevity as their primary goal, we create bespoke and effective interventions with their diet, sleep, and exercise.

As we get older, we spend less time in wild places and more time in controlled conditions. But climbing in nature gives our 50+ bodies and brains something sterile environments don’t: It forces us to move, adapt, and regulate in response to the world around us. Instead of defaulting to coping patterns that eliminate uncertainty– and everything that makes life exciting.

We build your physical capacity for outdoor climbing with our ReWilder50+ indoor climbing class– then we take those skills outside onto the complexity and unpredictability of real rock.

“I hurt, I hurt a lot. One doctor told me: ‘Well, you’re getting old. Tough.’ When I came to ReWilder, I was impressed with their know-how and holistic approach… These days, I feel stronger. And capable. When I learn new moves, it helps me feel more comfortable in my skin. I don’t hurt the same way anymore.”

– Jane, 69 years old

Frequently Asked Questions

Don’t have health insurance? Lift something heavy.

Resistance training also serves as an insurance policy of sorts against the inevitable effects of ageing– such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, and conditions like type-II diabetes. 

Continued movement (and a focus on strength development) maintains our physical capacity, staving off the onset of osteoporosis as welll as preserving joint health and muscle mass.

Growing old is the most hardcore thing we do.