Move with Confidence: Gentle Movement & Fitness for Adults – Wheelchair Users Welcome

About this course

Participants explore gentle fitness activities, stretching, balance work and movement techniques through tutor demonstrations, guided wheelchair-based exercises, and individual and group activities. Sessions also include discussion, reflection and ongoing feedback, with exercises adapted to individual abilities and learners encouraged to work at a comfortable pace. The course covers posture, body mechanics, strength, flexibility, endurance and coordination, alongside ways to set personal fitness goals and maintain an active lifestyle.

What you'll learn

• Recognise how posture, movement and body mechanics affect physical activity.
• Develop strength, flexibility, endurance and coordination through adapted exercise.
• Identify benefits of exercise for physical and mental wellbeing.
• Set personal fitness and wellbeing goals and review progress towards them.
• Develop strategies for maintaining an active lifestyle.

Is this course right for you?

The course is for adults aged 24 and over, including wheelchair users, and is suitable across all levels. Learners take part in gentle physical activity at a personally appropriate pace, with exercises adapted to individual abilities. Sessions combine individual participation, group activities, discussion and reflection.

• Open to wheelchair users.
• No formal entry requirements are stated.
• Learners should be able to participate in gentle physical activity.

Before you go

• Wear comfortable clothing suitable for exercise.
• Bring a bottle of water to each session.
• Activities can be adapted to meet individual abilities and needs.