Chair Chats Episode 36: Equally Fit with Mark Fleming
Channel: One Leg Up with Pauline Victoria
Date: 14/09/2020

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Getting healthy and fit is essential to living a quality life.  But the physical fitness beyond survival often goes overlooked among people with disabilities.  Mark Fleming was inspired to start Equally Fit, a personal training studio to help fill the gap for the disability community.

Mark Fleming owns and runs a fitness studio in Tampa, Florida dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with disabilities through exercise. He was diagnosed originally at the age of 3 with PDD-NOS, then with Asperger's at the age of 11. He went to the University of Alabama for college, where he received his Bachelors and Masters in Exercise Science. While completing his Masters, he spent a year as a Behavior Assistant for an ABA company. During this time, he was also volunteering for Special Olympics and saw that many of the individuals he saw at work that were going to Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy to help motor deficits were seen in the individuals at Special Olympics who were much older. Knowing this gap, he filled up his trunk with exercise equipment and started in-home training. Growing to a full schedule in a year, he decided it was time to get a space of his own.

Mark can be found online at www.equallyfit.com

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