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Adaptive & Para Sport

Adaptive sport from first taster to national pathway: the right sport and club, classification, equipment and funding, skin, shoulder and heat routines, and the travel and support that get you to the start line.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Adaptive & Para Sport, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information, not medical advice. Check with a doctor before starting a new training programme, especially if you have a health condition, are pregnant or are coming back from an injury, and stop if you feel pain, dizziness or chest discomfort.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🏋️ Fitness & Sport

Adaptive & Para Sport

Training and competing in adaptive sports and para athletics, including equipment, classification, accessible clubs and specialist coaching.

  1. Shortlist of adaptive sports worth trying
  2. Accessible club and venue scouting visits
  3. Medical questions to settle before training hard
  4. Access and support profile for coaches
  5. Taster sessions in three shortlisted sports
  6. Effort scale that works for your body
  7. Door to court travel plan for training
  8. Disability sport body and club membership
  9. Adaptive equipment budget and funding map
  10. Training week built around care routines
  11. Skin and pressure checks around training
  12. Sports chair maintenance routine
  13. Prosthesis and socket fit log for sport
  14. Heat and cold plan for sessions and races
  15. Shoulder care routine for wheelchair athletes
  16. Fatigue and flare tracking for fluctuating conditions
  17. Monthly goals and adaptations review with your coach
  18. Grant and sponsorship renewals calendar
  19. Support rota for training and competition days
  20. Understanding your sport's classification system
  21. Wheelchair push technique sessions
  22. Transfers into sport equipment
  23. Guide running and tether skills
  24. Adapted strength training in the gym
  25. Therapeutic use exemption check for your medicines
  26. Falls, tips and getting back in your equipment
  27. Choosing a first sports wheelchair
  28. Running blade or sports prosthesis decision
  29. Handcycle, trike or adaptive bike choice
  30. Seating position and strapping setup
  31. Equipment funding application
  32. Adding a second sport or switching sport
  33. Accessibility improvement request to your venue
  34. Transporting sports equipment by car
  35. First adaptive competition
  36. Classification appointment preparation
  37. Accessible travel to an away competition
  38. Wheelchair or blade entry at a mass participation race
  39. Talent identification day or pathway trial
  40. Running an inclusive come-and-try session
  41. Starting sport after an acquired disability
  42. Training with a progressive condition
  43. Deaf athlete in a hearing club
  44. Pathways for athletes with a learning disability
  45. Para sport alongside work or study
  46. Supporting a young disabled athlete
  47. Club to national squad performance pathway
  48. Equipment fine-tuning with a specialist technician
  49. Classification review or protest preparation
  50. Athlete profile for sponsors and media

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Shortlist of adaptive sports worth trying

Most people are only shown two or three adaptive sports, yet there are well over thirty with organised competition, from wheelchair rugby and para canoe to boccia, sitting volleyball and para climbing. Matching the options against your impairment, what you enjoy and what actually runs within an hour of home gives you a shortlist built on fact rather than whatever the rehab unit happened to mention.

First tasks

  • List every adaptive sport you have heard of or seen on television
  • Search your national disability sport body's sport finder for options near you
  • Note which classes each sport offers for your impairment
  • Pick three sports to try and write one reason for each

Accessible club and venue scouting visits

A club website can say all welcome while the changing room has a step, the accessible toilet stores the mop buckets and the car park is loose gravel. Visiting each shortlisted club on a real session night, with the same checklist in hand, shows whether you can get in, get changed and get on court without asking for a favour every week.

First tasks

  • Write an access checklist covering parking, doors, toilets, changing and the playing area
  • Phone two clubs and ask to watch a normal session
  • Score each visit against the checklist the same evening
  • Save the head coach's name and contact for the club you choose

Medical questions to settle before training hard

Spinal cord injury, limb loss, cerebral palsy, MS and many other conditions raise sport-specific questions a general fitness instructor cannot answer: blood pressure responses, medicine timing, bone health, seizure plans, autonomic dysreflexia.

First tasks

  • Write down every question you have about training with your condition
  • Book an appointment with the clinician who manages your condition
  • Record the answers and any limits in your own words
  • Give your coach a copy of anything that affects sessions

Make it yours.

Install Adaptive & Para Sport, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.