{"id":196989,"date":"2024-07-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/?p=196989"},"modified":"2024-08-29T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:04:17","slug":"rock-climbing-for-parkinsons-with-molly-cupka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/rock-climbing-for-parkinsons-with-molly-cupka","title":{"rendered":"Rock Climbing for Parkinson&#8217;s with Molly Cupka"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/c8fb1ac5-f9c8-4a74-955d-06b6de704a2d?dark=false\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wild-ideas-worth-living.simplecast.com\/episodes\/rock-climbing-for-parkinsons-with-molly-cupka\/transcript\">Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molly Cupka is a climber and founder of the organization Up Ending Parkinson&#8217;s, a nonprofit that teaches people with Parkinson&#8217;s disease to rock climb. Parkinson&#8217;s is the second most common neurological disease behind Alzheimer&#8217;s and rock climbing provides a ton of health benefits including balance, grip strength, and mental acuity. For the climbers who Molly trains, there&#8217;s another benefit that is harder to quantify, community and connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connect with Molly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upendingparkinsons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Up Ending Parkinsons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to our sponsors:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Capital One:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/membership\/mastercard?trackingId=podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Check out the REI Co-op Mastercard program<\/a>\u00a0and learn about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reifund.org\/grantees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local REI Fund grantees<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/b\/gu\/c\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GU Energy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript Molly Cupka is a climber and founder of the organization Up Ending Parkinson&#8217;s, a nonprofit that teaches people with Parkinson&#8217;s disease to rock climb. Parkinson&#8217;s is the second most common neurological disease behind Alzheimer&#8217;s and rock climbing provides a ton of health benefits including balance, grip strength, and mental acuity. 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