Surefire Place to the Escape the Fats: Rock Climbing Gym If you ever reach a point where you simply cannot stand the sight of fat people in your life, and need a place where you know for a fact that you won't see any, look no further than an in door rock climbing gym. And I don't just mean obese people. Even small fats are quickly weeded out. They are places that exist exclusively for thin people. Rock climbing facilities aren't like gyms and other places where you would find fit people. There are many fit people in gyms of course, but unavoidably there are also many fat people. This is because you don't actually have to be thin in order to walk on a treadmill or lift a weight. You can still do those things. Rocking climbing on the other hand is a sport that simply does not allow for excess body weight, at any level. If you're even moderately overweight, then due to the mechanics of climbing and the requirement to lift your entire body off the ground, it quickly becomes almost impossible. You will not even find overly muscular people there. Their bodies are simply too heavy for them to climb with.  I recently started getting back into climbing, and today I realized that in all my visits to climbing facilities, I have never seen a single fat person. Like not a single one, and I live in a fairly overweight city and see fat people every day. Going to a climbing gym is like going to some kind of utopia where all of the people are normal.