- Run Walk or Roll your way to a 5k!
- Focus on Secondary Condition Prevention: Walking Program to Reduce Secondary Conditions in Adolescents with Autism
- Raising Healthy Kids - Part 1: Everyday Activity
- A Paradigm Shift in Youth Sports and Recreation Is Needed to Include More Youths with Disabilities and Health Conditions Including Obesity into the Mainstream of Sports and Recreation in America
- Focus on Secondary Condition Prevention: Promotion of Physical Fitness and Prevention of Secondary Conditions for Children with Cerebral Palsy: Part II
- Primer on Pain
- Physical Activity Adherence and Quality of Life among Individuals with Arthritis
- Strength Training Video for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Warm-Up Stretching
- Stroke
- First Steps to Active Health: Balance and Flexibility Exercises for Older Adults
- Inclusive Physical Education
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Warning! Exercise May Be
HazardousEssential to Your Health - Blood pressure and heart rate response to isometric exercise: The effect of spinal cord injury in humans.
- Rehab and Community Physical Activity - When and Where Shall the Two Meet?
- Current injury or disability as a barrier to being more physically active.
- Inclusive Fitness Coalition Call for Members and Advocates for Change!
- Prescribing Physical Activity for People with Disabilities Requires More than General Guidelines
- Walk Your Way to Fitness
- Age-related changes in aerobic capacity in individuals with mental retardation: a 20 year review
- Healthy Gifts for All
- Exercising your Brain
- Estimating MET values using the ratio of heart rate for persons with paraplegia.
- Exercise Intervention Research on Persons with Disabilities
- Disability Type Influences Heart Rate Response During Power Wheelchair Sport
- Koreans Use 1988 Olympic Park to Get Their Daily Dose of Exercise - But Where are the People with Disabilities?
- Exercise Tips for Power Mobility Device Users
- Developmental Disability and Fitness
- Down Syndrome and Exercise
- Connecting People with Disabilities to Physical Activity Programs in Their Communities
- Seated Stretching
- Sheltered Workshops and Residential Facilities Must Encourage Physical Activity
- The Tipping Point
- Rising Gas Prices Make It A Good Time to Build Friendlier Physical Activity Communities
- A Systematic Review of the Outcomes of Cardiovascular Exercise Programs for People with Down Syndrome
- Role of mechanical power estimates in the O2 cost of walking in children with cerebral palsy.
- Ask the Exercise Professional Live Chat
- What I Have Learned This Month: Being Active as a Family Takes Creativity
- Volkssport: The Foundations for a Lifetime of Good Health
- Finding a Purpose-Driven Life
- Benefits of Exercise for People with HIV/AIDS
- Variety (in Physical Activity) is the Spice of Life!
- Walk to School Day Celebrates National Efforts to Promote More Walkable (Wheelable), Active Communities
- Aging and Physical Disability: On Integrating Group and Individual Counseling With the Promotion of Physical Activity
- Fitness Handout For Staff and Caregivers
- Exercise Program for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries: Paraplegia - Video & Quick Series Booklet
- Children with Disabilities and Obesity
- Focus on Secondary Condition Prevention: Non-Traditional Exercise as a Way of Preventing Secondary Conditions - Part I
- Physical Activity for the Chronically Ill and Disabled
- Exercise for People with Multiple Sclerosis - Series II
- Sedentary Lifestyle is Dangerous to Your Health
- Stepping in the Right Direction: The Development of a Functional Walking Program
- The Efficacy of a 9-Month Treadmill Walking Program on the Exercise Capacity and Weight Reduction for Adolescents with Severe Autism
- Exercises to Improve Gait Abnormalities
- Treadmill Exercise in Patients with Chronic Stroke
- Maintaining or Improving Fitness in Childhood Disorders
Exercise is for EVERY body. This slogan appears in a number of places on the NCHPAD Web site, and for a very good reason. Exercise is a key factor in maintaining and improving overall health. In 1996, the Surgeon General of the United States reported that "significant health benefits can be obtained with a moderate amount of physical activity, preferably daily." More recently, the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans provides science-based guidance to help individuals with disabilities aged 6 and older improve their health through appropriate physical activity. These benefits are even more important if you have a disability, since people with disabilities have a tendency to live less active lifestyles. Yet, it is just as important for your body to get exercise. This factsheet provides some general exercise guidelines you should review. Throughout this site are resources on physical activity and exercise programs of all sorts: indoor and outdoor, sports or recreational, solitary or team. It doesn't matter what you choose, so long as you choose to get a moderate amount of physical activity each day.
