Student Disability Services

Fitness Program at SDSU

The Fitness Clinic for individuals with Disabilities at San Diego State University is designed to help those in the San Diego community with disabilities maximize their level of fitness. Each individual in the program receives an individualized exercise program prescription based upon needs determined from an initial evaluation. The fitness program primarily includes training for:

Muscle strength and endurance... Flexibility... Cardiovascular Endurance... Balance and Gait retraining.

ENS 105, Individual Adaptives, is open to SDSU students with disabilities. The class provides students with an individualized exercise program based on needs determined from an initial evaluation.

The fitness program emphasizes training for improvements in muscular strength and flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance and balance. Class assistants (adapted physical education and sports medicine students) are available to help each individual complete his or her exercise program. Equipment available for use includes Cybex Kinetron II, Flexicisor, Monark Cycle & Arm Ergometers, and NuStep recumbent steppers. Other equipment more specific to functional training include Pnumex body weight unloading systems, treadmills, parallel bars, pulleys and miscellaneous adapted equipment, as well as access to a fully equipped weight room.

The Clinic is conducted in Peterson Gym, Room 151-C.

For more information, call the Fitness Clinic for Individuals with Disabilities (594-2017), or visit the Fitness Clinic web site.