Living Life With A Physical Disability One Day At A Time
Disclaimer: I wrote this post to talk about my experience with undereating. This post was not written to give you medical advice of any kind and like all of my other posts should never be substituted for professional medical advice! Not getting the right amount of nutrients can have just as many negative effects as … Continue reading How I Knew I Wasn’t Eating Enough Calories
If you are expecting to have surgery and know you are going to be down for a while you may be wondering what is the point of continuing your workout routine when it's all going to go to waste after you have surgery. You are just going to lose all those gains anyway so what … Continue reading What Is The Point Of Exercising Prior To Surgery?
I love Blogilates because her workouts are free and super effective but her products are nothing fabulous! The products are pretty but a little bit pricy which I can afford every once and a while but not something I am going to do on a regular basis. When you are disabled one of the many … Continue reading How Can You Make Fitness More Accessible For Disabled People?
This is my pilates ring I bought several years ago and it's really simple all you do is press this two little button on the side and it bounces back at you adding a lot of resistance to your muscles. This ring is extremely light weight that if you wanted to you could let your … Continue reading Fitness Equipment You Can Get Disabled People
Staying consistent with exercise can be hard for a lot of people but for those with chronic migraines or any type of chronic pain it can be more difficult and many people avoid it because of the fear of physical activity triggering pain. For years I was that way and avoided exercise it was to … Continue reading How I Finally Became Consistent With Exercise Despite My Chronic Pain
Disclaimer: I am not a fitness professional and these are just some things I have learned from experts on Youtube. Everything written in this post should be used for informational use only and never substituted for professional advice. When you have a physical disability working out can be a struggle because not all your muscles … Continue reading Lessons I Learned From Working Out With YouTube
When your disabled setting and achieving fitness goals is more difficult than if you were abled. This past week I achieved a fitness goal that I have worked on since 2011, I can do a plank with proper form! You may be thinking that a plank is not that hard but for me, it was … Continue reading Reaching Fitness Goals When Your Disabled
When an abled person works out they may have certain days where they work out certain body parts. That may not be a very good strategy for a disabled person if all they can work out is their upper body. Every day would be arm day! When you go to a gym there is very … Continue reading Why Don’t I Workout In A Gym
When I was in high school I was required just like everyone else to take a pe class to graduate. I have always been passionate about fitness and struggled with finding ways to stay active because of my disability so when I heard about adaptive pe I was hopeful. After I starting taking adapting pe … Continue reading How Schools Can Adapt PE For Disabled Students
Whenever my abled friends are talking about fitness they always stop talking about it when I enter the room because they think my fitness regime is totally different from theirs’s and that I can’t relate to it. Yes, there may be some things I may not be able to relate to but there are a … Continue reading Four Things Disabled People Can Relate To About Fitness
