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    Indoor climbing is a great workout(锻炼). Climbing uses muscles that are hard to exercise, especially those in the shoulders, arms, chest and back. Many people say climbing makes exercise fun. Most gyms have several climbing walls with various degrees of d{#blank#}5{#/blank#}. The easier ones are like climbing a ladder. The difficult ones bulge out(凸出) in places.

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