Home Exercise for Disability or Long Term Health Condition
There are many ways to enjoy an active lifestyle at home; this includes adapting activities so everyone in the household, disabled and non-disabled, can take part together. Please do checkout our Home Exercises for Adults also. Some specific resources are outlined below:
Ability not Disability: Community Fitness Network have created an "at home" YouTube channel for adults, children and young people with SEND support keeping them active whilst service provision may be out of action because of Covid.
Activity Alliance: Has a range of advice and information for people with a disability including their Be Active at Home Guide and videos from the parasport team.
Arthritis Action: Have a series of online chair based exercises developed with the aim of helping those with hip, knee or spinal Osteoarthritis more mobile and active.
British Blind Sport: Active at Home
Cerebral Palsy Sport: Have a range of activity fact sheets on line specifically designed to support people to continue to be active and healthy at home.
Change 4 Life - Accessible Activities: There are lots of ways to keep disabled children and young people active – start off by choosing activities your child is interested in and adapt them
Limbpower: National Disability Sport Organisation LimbPower has created a number of new resources to compliment the existing online resources to support amputees and people with limb difference to stay fit and healthy at home.
Limbpower for Children: British disability sport charity LimbPower has launched its "Adaptive Fitness Fun" sessions twice a week to encourage fitness with young amputee children.
Mind: Mind use the power of sport and physical activity to raise awareness, tackle mental health stigmas and support those of us with mental health problems to become more active.
MS Society: Exercise for MS symptoms from the MS Society.
Sense: A range of different resources for keeping active at home.
We Are Undefeatable: The team behind the campaign for people with Long Term Health conditions say there are plenty of ways that you can get moving without needing to leave your house. Resources include Five in Five to help you start building small amounts of activity into your day, a five minute mini-workout designed for people living with long term health conditions.
Wheelpower: Wheelpower have been sharing videos which demonstrate that being healthy and feeling fitter doesn’t always have to mean taking part in sport or going to the gym, and that regular low impact exercises at home can be hugely beneficial for your mental and physical wellbeing.