I wish fitness trainers would keep the disabled community in mind when creating workouts because it’s already really hard but it would be much easier if every workout had and alternatives for when moves just weren’t possible

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Fitness is so much harder when you are disabled because almost everything is designed for abled people and the disability community is often left hanging. I get a majority of your audience will probably be abled people and I don’t blame fitness trainers for not having extensive not on disability but I do blame them for not even trying to make their workout accessible. Some people will take the initiative and look for something that is accessible but other people will not and will just accept the fact that it does not exist which is sad because it shouldn’t take three days to find a twenty minute workout. There are some seated workouts that I have found but in my experience, most of them are not accessible because pretty much all of them require you to move your leg the whole time or do some type of heel movement which some people can do but a lot of people can’t so even though it says it’s accessible that doesn’t mean it is. Accessible workouts do exist but there aren’t near as many accessible ones as inaccessible and as frustrating as it is sometimes it’s just better to do those and modify than to look for something accessible because it will be like finding a needle in a haystack.

https://myrockindisabledlife.com/2021/01/16/how-you-can-make-fitness

A very small glimpse into the science of flexibility based on what learnings have had the most impact on my practice

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I have made many mistakes when it comes to training my body to become more flexible. I thought I had to force myself to stretch to the point of pain to see any real success.

https://deannaduxbury.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/the-science-behind-flexibility

First rule of Yoga Club.

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Bring your mat, leave your sass at home

So, I took my first yoga class today. I mean, like my first yoga class EVER. I am at least slightly aware of the trends of the world around me, and as a 40-something Gen Xer, and have been painfully aware that yoga, along with tons of other things borrowed from ancient monks, has kinda become a thing. They even make special pants for it. If you know me at all, you might not be surprised that I’m really not “a yoga person.” I’m everything yoga is NOT: I’m essentially a klutzy, loud, awkward, generally muddy, uncouth, disheveled, irregular breather. I’ve refused even attempting it for years because, well…. refer to previous sentence. I’m also a mighty large lady, and since popping out another human, my midsection has gotten soft and wobbly (like a perfect flan). Flexibility and bending and folding and…

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The Truth about being a Fitness Professional

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I’m a fitness coach but I am not the healthiest and fittest out there.

Working in the fitness industry, everyone expects us to look absolutely ripped (2% body fat and 8-pack abs and all), and have so much time in our hands (freelance coaches like myself, especially). Not that it’s an unfair or impossible expectation – we should practice what we preach, after all.

As with most expectations, it’s not all it’s perceived to be. After 8 years in the industry, here are a couple of things I’d like to share.

  1. We have the same 24 hours as everyone else.

When you work in a gym, everyone (including yourself in the beginning, probably) expects you to be working out all day. Hey, gym use is free all day, every day. However, our time is highly dependent on client schedules. When we have a lot of clients in a day, we’ll…

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