Sports and Fitness Center

The sports facilities are beneficial for students because it is way of keeping students fit and healthy and at the same time students get a chance to build confidence and develop team working

Develops long term plans to determine need for and feasibility of constructing or upgrading athletic facilities.

Experts also believe that a way of compensation for the athletes are the facilities that they

According to Disabled Spots USA, “National Handicapped Sports and Recreation Association renamed Disabled Sports USA in 1994. It has 91 chapters and 36 states in the United States. It gives sports and recreation programs not only the military people who get serious physical disabling because of their mission, but also people who have disability.” There are 303 million people, who have either mental disabilities or physical disabilities, living in the United States. “Disabled Sports USA provided sports and recreation programs to over 60,000 youth and adults who have some disabilities now according to Australian Paralympic Committee. ” Disabled people, who do some physical activity, are possible to spend happy life compare with disabled people, who did not do any activities. According to Disabled USA’ survey said, “The survey found that DSUSA Chapter Participants (CP) are twice as likely to be employed as the general population of adults with disabilities (68% vs. 33%). ”

Entry into Bell Road Branch YMCA facility in Montgomery, Alabama invites one to a world of fitness and sporting. The center offers a variety of services ranging from leisure to fitness. For the sporting personnel, the center is the best place for exercise before games and one of the places to access routine training sessions. The site has got sporting and recreation facilities like swimming pools, basketball courts, and tennis courts. On the fitness site, pulse fitness, resistance and free weight areas are also taken care of by the facilities available. Cardiovascular fitness is also provided. Health and fitness are also a focus in the facility with healthy habits services being offered for different age groups. The mission of the facility is to provide the users with the best healthy experience and to ensure that anyone that enters into it comes out

Merriam Webster dictionary defines sport as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often

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Diamond Evolution Fitness Center was created to meet the individual needs of those clients that may desire personal assistance ensuring they are completing each exercise within their limits in a safe environment. As of 2012, there were 73.5 million adults with at least one basic actions difficulty or complex activity limitation that are noninstitutionalized over the age of 18 and 17.2 million adults that are unable to walk a quarter of a mile (National Center for Health Statistics [NCHS], 2014, table 49). These individuals may not be able to utilize all of the equipment or services at a typical gym, but our facility is designed to ensure that every individual is able to work within their limits to achieve their goals.

As a human with no physical or learning disabilities, the culture and lifestyle of those with disabilities is still new to me. After watching Murderball, a documentary that focuses on the U.S. quadriplegic rugby team, I was happy to find out that there are still many opportunities for disabled individuals to participate in sports. Through dedication and training, it seemed that anything was possible for these athletes. Unfortunately, it appears that those with mental/learning disabilities are not presented with as equal opportunities for success in sports. Lauren McKeon’s “Why Won’t You Let Me Play?” focuses on the discrimination that takes place within the Special Olympics. After looking at the Paralympics and Special Olympics through the lenses of Murderball and “Why Won’t You Let Me Play”, it has become clear that people with disabilities do not have equal opportunities in sports, but this issue is not only prevalent in sports. Special Olympic athletes seem to face far greater exclusion compared to Paralympic athletes in athletics, daily life, and American culture.

The research article published in BMC Pediatrics shed the light and provide a thorough insight about the perceived barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity for children with disability. In this article the author Shields. N (affiliated with Department of Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Sport, School of Allied Health, La Trobe University) and

Sports are very vital. They offer a lifestyle, an occupation, and even a dream. Sports require physical activity and skill in which a team or an individual compete against others for entertainment. As David G. McComb comments in "Sports in World History", "there is a high degree of training, investment, and coaching, along with spectators, rules, publicity, and institutional control that come along with these activities." While participating in sports, it is required to be able to undertake a difficult situation and perform the best out of it. Sports are definitely more than just a game.

To start off, If you look up the definition of a sport in the dictionary, it will tell you that a sport is a “physical activity that is governed

As Americans, we live in a society where the love of sports dominates our culture. This appreciation for this cultural aspect is even shared by those who do not function properly. As a current Special Olympics volunteer and enthusiast, every athlete of any disability deserves to be able to play on any given team in the country as long as their skill complements the desired team. As U.S. citizens, we were taught to enforce equality and allow every person the respectful opportunity as you would get for any stipulation. Athletes with intellectual disabilities are longing for the opportunity to play their favorite sports, they have achieved support from all over the world due to global organizations, they disregard the opposing views as they

This section will focus on the social model and medical model. it has been reported that until the introduction of the social model of disability, the United States (US) policy focused on a medical approach. The similarities between these approaches is that they provide information on disability.

Health promotion has been defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and to improve it. This process requires personal participation and supportive environments. For people with disabilities, however, personal participation is often limited by non-supportive environments. Lack of knowledge on how to modify programs to meet specific needs, poor attitudes, and unfriendly environments often creates insurmountable barriers to participation for many people with disabilities. While innovative medical technology has increased the life span of individuals with disabilities, little attention has focused on improving their health span. The reportedly high incidence of chronic secondary conditions seen in persons