1st ever DPI Adaptive Fitness Games was a success!!!!

Hello Team,

 

I wanted to share a letter that I sent out this morning to everyone involved in making our first ever Adaptive Fitness Games such a success.

 

It was an amazing event and feedback so far is that everyone loved it and is anxiously awaiting our summer games.

 

We definitely saw some areas for improvement, but overall we are extremely confident that we can now hold an open invitational when the time comes. This way anyone at any level can come from anywhere to compete, how cool will that be!!!

 

Stay tuned for more pics of the event....

 

"Just wanted to send a special thank you to the DPI team...Pablo, Katie, Baldwin, Stephanie and Meaghan.

You guys and gals have been so instrumental in keeping the programming running smoothly and in supporting DPI leading up to and during the games yesterday.

Bigger things ahead, glad to have you all working with me.

To all the volunteers, you all rocked your assignments yesterday. Everything went way better than I had planned. Thank you for giving up your Saturday to help us out.

Joan and Harsh, thank you for having us lead the fitness programming and for giving us the platform to do the games. 

All of the competitors...you guys were amazing!!!

I hope you all had as much fun competing as we did designing and putting together this event.

Congratulations to the winners:

Stroke Division: Christie

Open Division: Twila

Quadriplegia Division: Billy

Paraplegia Division: Harsh

This event was a vision that we had for a very long time, it was incredible to see it realized.

We are looking forward to an even bigger and better Open Invitational Summer Games "outdoors"

THANK YOU ALL!!!!"

-Devon

Check out the article from the post here:

http://wapo.st/1MhhwKT
 

Guest Post for Stroke Comeback Center...

Hello Adaptive Superheroes!!!

I'm sure many of you have seen through our Facebook and other social media accounts like Instagram and Twitter that we had to postpone the DPI Adaptive Fitness Winter Games at Medstar NRH on Feb 21st due to inclement weather.

While we are definitely bummed that we could not hold the event on our set date, we are glad that the call was made to cancel. Some areas in the DMV got close to a foot of snow!

Nevertheless, we are moving forward and planning on holding the Games on a new date. Stay tuned for updates and the announcement of the new date.

We are so excited to be holding this event in partnership with Medstar NRH, it is sure to be a big hit.

Today I want to bring attention to the Stroke Comeback Center. In the past year I  have had the pleasure of guest lecturing on Adaptive Fitness for people recovering from Stroke as well as working one on one with many of the centers members.

I recently was asked to write a post for their website speaking to heart health following Stroke. Take a look at the post here: or go to www.strokecomebackcenter.org and click on the Heart link under the recovery tab.

Every year it is reported that 795,000 people in the US alone suffer the effects of a Stroke, of that amount, 185,000 strokes—nearly one of four—are in people who have had a previous stroke. The article posted on the Stroke Comeback Centers website touches on precautionary measures that can be taken to ensure a decreased risk of having a second stroke.

It is said that 1 in 5 people are living with some form of a disABILITY, please share this post with someone whom you feel may benefit.

That's all for now, Stay tuned for more updates on the games....

Keep Fighting, Never Give up!!!

-Devon

Inaugural Adaptive Fitness Winter Games at Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital with DPI Adaptive Fitness

 

Hello Adaptive Superheroes!!!

It has been awhile since my last post, so many good things have been happening it's almost hard to keep up with it all.

My hope with this post is to bring everyone up to speed with what DPI Adaptive Fitness has been up to and what is planned for the future.

You have to check out the videos below....

Updates:

-Since October we have been steady participating in lectures and events for the community including lectures at local rehab hospitals, Stroke Comeback Center, Spina Bifida walk and roll events and even the Super H Run, Walk and Wheel to benefit Adaptive Sports programs in the Washington DC area.

-In addition we have been working very hard and closely with Medstar NRH to provide free adaptive fitness classes to the community. This has been a tremendous success, to the point where we have added an additional day of free supervised adaptive fitness exercise sessions to the disABLED community.

It is soooo awesome to see so many people all at varying levels of ability come out and give it their all during our classes.

If you have a second, check out the videos and comment below, word of encouragement and motivation go a long way for our participants.

-We also have had the pleasure of meeting and being even more motivated by an awesome group by the name of I AM ADAPTIVE. Please check them out, they are doing such a fabulous job of bringing awareness and creating a great community of Adaptive Athletes together.

-Lastly, we are super excited to be hosting (along with NRH) the first of it's kind Adaptive Fitness Winter Games on Feb 21, 2015 from 2:30-4:30 at Medstar NRH.

This event is sure to be a hit, myself and the other Adaptive Fitness Trainers of DPI Adaptive Fitness have designed an Adaptive Fitness event for our open gym participants to compete against one another to determine the Winter champion of 2015 in the following divisions:

Stroke

Spinal Cord Injury-Paraplegia

Spinal Cord Injury-Quadriplegia

Open Division (Spina Bifida, Cerebral Palsy, Amputee, Seniors)

Online Division (Anyone at home that would like to compete following our Instagram account: dpiadaptivefitness)

This event is sure to be a big hit, if you are at all able make sure to come by to cheer, motivate, support, and be inspired by our adaptive competitors.

We have lots more in the works and are soooo very excited to see where the future takes us, check back for updates!!!



Open Gym with DPI Adaptive Fitness:

 

 

Adaptive Boxing Fitness with DPI Adaptive Fitness:

 

 

 

That's all for now.

 

Keep Fighting, Never Give up!

 

-Devon

 

 

 

 

Check out my recent interview with "I Am Adaptive"....

I think it is so awesome that more Adaptive Fitness Trainers and Facilities are starting to emerge, it is a much needed and long overdue necessity for the benefit of the disability community.

I recently was reached out to by a great trainer who has been impacted by disability, and who like me has recognized the extreme need to provide adaptive fitness to those who long for it.

Ellyse Trethric is working on great things for the Adaptive community, specifically Adaptive Athletes.

Check out her website www.iamadaptive.com

and while you're there take a look at the recent interview I sat for with her here:


Great things are happening in the Adaptive Fitness world!

Keep fighting, Never Give up!