Fitness Club Websites, September 2012
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Fitness websites exclude Team GB’s paralympians of the future
The Olympics and Paralympics have given many of us renewed enthusiasm for sport, or at least a firmer resolve to get fit. Whilst fitness clubs are an extremely useful means of helping us to get in shape and stay that way, for people with a disability or impairment, they are often the only feasible way they can safely get fit or take up a sport in a supported environment.
Our review of five of the top gym club websites found that most are either difficult or impossible for disabled people to use – which means they won’t be able to follow through on their new found zest for fitness and, who knows, perhaps become Team GB’s Paralympians of the future.
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