#accessable exercise

[therandomfandomme]

Biking is accessible movement

Biking is a very accessible mode of transportation and way to exercise, however I think a lot of people don't know that, since there are a lot of countries, who don't have the right infrastructure (which is sad). So, this post is me showing y'all how biking is very accessible.

I am writing this from the perspective of someone with mild chronic pain, so I don't know the ins and outs, I have just seen all these bikes around on the streets, because here in the Netherlands they are very prevelant. I do want to say that biking is far easier on my joints than walking, except the knees, even with my unmodified bike.

An accessability feature that is not the bike itself, but often seen in traffic are the signs for hard of hearing people, which can be attached to the back of the bike to let others know that the person won't respond to audible traffic cues and to be careful.

1. Not having the muscle mass or lung capacity for intense exercise

Electrical bikes used to be mostly associated with senior citizens, however in recent years it has become more popular with high schoolers, who have to bike long distances to school or adults, who don't want to arrive sweaty at work. They can either assist you or do the biking for you. Normal electric bikes can go up to 30 km/h, but the recently popular fatbike can go up to 60 km/h (which is a hazard and should be regulated, but I digress). Every bike type that follows after can be an eletric bike.

2. Needing back support

Of course not everyone can sit on a bike, whose seating gives no support and for those there are lying bikes. Though being able to get up and down from a pretty low seat, which is less.

3. Not having the balance for biking

One big thing with bikes is balancing, which is something I struggle with (shout out to physical therapy for helping with that). Once I'm on the bike it is easier for me, but I struggled a lot with getting on and off the bike for a while as well as balancing in general, so I had training wheels for a lot longer than most of my peers.

Luckily, there are a lot of options for people who have bad balance or for whom getting on and off a bike would be more of a struggle. A fatbike already makes for easier balance, however for more aid you have tricycles for adults, which are pretty common. And an extra wheel can also be put on a lying bike.

4. Mental disabilities that limit safe independence in traffic

Not everyone can be in traffic unsupervised due to mental disabilities or brain damage, so not everyone can bike on their own. However, there are many ways to bike while having someone there for safety.

A tandem might seem like a gimmick to some, but it can allow someone to bike without needing to take into account all the moving traffic. And the dubble bike, which is more often used as a fun thing for tourist to explore a city while being able to chat, can provide the same for those with bad balance. If the person in question is smaller than the person supervising, such as a child or little person, than there is also a bike attachment for any bike with a luggage carrier.

5. Using a mobility aid

A lot of people think that you can't bike when using a mobility aid, however biking is not the same as walking, so should your body allow it, biking is possible.

If a person uses a cane or crutches there are ways to hold them in place. A walker can also be attached to the back if it is foldable. If a person is in a wheelchair (depending on what kind) then a hand bike is an option, which allows for higher speeds than moving regularly, while not taking more energy. A person with a wheelchair can also be transported with a bike, if they are not able to move through traffic independently (i have been informed that this is for kids, so thank you for that addition).

6. Lifestyle makes it more difficult to bike

Some people can ride a bike, but aren't able of biking, because they have kids, pets or need to move more stuff. However, there are ways to still use a bike in those circumstances. Popular among people in busy cities with more than one kid is a cargo bike. A cargo bike is also avaible with three wheels for extra balance and both can be electric. For pet owners the trailer is more popular, since a pet cannot jump out of it, though I've also seen plenty of babies and toddlers in them. Both these options can naturally also hold stuff.

Of course I totally understand that not everyone is able to bike and that not everywhere there is the infrastructure necessary. I am just passionate about it and I think that a lot of people might not realize that biking can be more accessible than it is often portrayed. I might have missed something, so feel free to add if you find anything and I would love to hear thoughts or just reactions :D

#rrrambles #disability #disabled #disability rights #disability awareness #disabilities #mobility aid #accessibility #biking #bicycle #leftism #political #politics #accessabilty of biking #accessable exercise #accessable movement #disabled excercise #image description in alt #image described #image desc in alt text

[gabbagepatch]

Listen guys, you don't need to look nice to go outside. Your health is more important than appearances.

I just went on a walk in my pajamas, greasy hair in a shitty bun, acne, and a pair of new balance sneakers. Cars passed by and I said hi to everyone who passed. Did I feel self-conscious? Of course, but it was worth it.

Now I feel a lot better, because I didn't A. Overextend by forcing myself to shower/get dressed/put on concealer beforehand or B. Avoid doing anything because I felt like a mess.

Go outside and be however you are. It's not your job to look good to random strangers, you deserve to go outside.

#someone get me a cookie for walking with a migraine #i feel very brave #disability #disabled #hearing impaired #meniere's disease #chronic illness #hard of hearing #chronic disability #chronic pain #chronic migraine #chronically ill #invisible illness #illness mention #invisible disability #disability pride #blurb #exercise #accessibility

[smute]

hi my darlings i finished my zine and im extremely tempted to say something bad about it right now but im trying not to belittle myself so much. so... 🤫 hope you enjoy <3

#honestly it was a challenge to come up with something meaningful (hopefully) yet accessible (hopefully) #and something that might be interesting to a broader audience (hopefully) #and all that in such a small format #my first draft could've filled 10 of these things #but yeah that was the whole point. it was a very useful exercise #anyway #this has been sitting in my drafts since october bc im a weenie #so... yeet #feel free to reblog #or #idk #do whatever you want with it #just get it the hell out of my house #&

[anti-ao3]

society: why are so many young ppl developing eating disorders and other mental illnesses???

also society: you will only be truly happy if you lose weight/if you're skinny! that's self-care! 😘

#the mental health tag on tumblr is filled with the same skinny white women going to the gym every single day #and btw i know the gym itself isn't the problem #exercising isn't the problem #it's how society romanticizes it for the sake of losing weight #they say it's not about 'aesthetics' but it's still definitely about body image lol #also i feel like they exclude disabled ppl who aren't able to exercise #or can't afford a gym or doesn't have access to one #it's still fucking ableist!!!! #lotus.txt #ableism tw #fatphobia tw #ranting #ranting in tags

[saltlog]

#※saltlog #-> au: echoes of typhoon #-> sry for those who want this to make sense cause.. #-> the point is i'm posting notes for myself!! #-> as things pop into my head so it's.. for me lmaO #-> related to ancient text.. where i said vash will disappear with his plane. then send it back empty to get it away from knives. #-> thinking ww/rest will just accept the msg he left in it. 2 bad they're coming to get u back. ark arc.. of sorts #-> also ww wears gloves till he around vash starts slipping w guitar playing. so vash realizes he isn't just normal mercenary but EOM pilot #-> due to his palms having weird shit on em alright.. so vash knows ww can access the msg in his plane when he sends it back.. woahs #-> my brain exercise... why is it so big. man.

[thebirdandhersong]

Lol. Lol. Lol.

#this is why i didnt want to move home 😂😂😂😂😂😂 being expected to cook and do the kitchen things #and not a single person cleaning in this house except for mom!!! = also me because i cant let my mother do all the work #anyway im tired lol!!!!! and i want to live with my 2 friends in the city #and meal prep together have my own space and not be subjected to more You should exercise comments #this is weight gained from depressive stress eating mom :-) i am Stressed and im trying not to cope this way but it is a process #anyway i miss my dorm i miss seeing 40+ people at meals i miss having the privacy to sing my heart out #i miss living in a small and manageable space i miss my FRIENDS i miss that boy (this is not a positive thing to miss admittedly) #i miss living right by the coffee shop that sells the Best Sandwich Ever and a honking good lavender vanilla latte #i also miss being able to fit into my favourite jeans. this is a self inflicted issue and it annoys me #anyway i am medium miserable and there is still a HECK TON of things to do #like unpack and go to the grocery store because its my father's birthday and ive committed #to cooking birthday dinner because birthday lunch was an unfortunate flop #o yeah also i miss having access to cheap obscenely strong black tea. that kept me going through finals #im only here a month before im off to my summer job which will be Away from here!! but darn it all its going to be a Month

[whatbigotspost]

Damn, y'all. This is very, very bad news:

I have an unshakable belief that "democracy" is a joke in any place where a free media cannot exist. As I've eluded to many times, I'm a big believer in more progressive leaning sources like NPR, the Texas Tribune (the source link in that^ story), and formerly, the Texas Observer. Things are NOT in a good place right now, financially, for any of those entities.

This trend is something that anyone who cares about the threat of the rising Christofascist right wing extremists should be paying a LOT OF FUCKING ATTENTION TO. If you can, you should be donating to any entity you depend on, like this. It's why I'm a member of my local NPR station. I mean, I can't help but feel like we are about 2 seconds away from just accepting that algorithms like TikTok are going to drive all of the "information" we have, and I hopefully don't need to explain why we'll all be thoroughly fucked if that happens. Here's an Austin local writer/journalist I trust, with more behind-the-scenes input about what happened w/ the Texas Observer.

#The Texas Observer #living in texas is an exercise in frustration #free media #NPR #access to information #free speech #free press

[rains-pace]

in honor of the new spider-verse movie i did a quick study of one of my favorite shots from the original !! <33

#my art #spiderverse #spider-verse #into the spider-verse #miles morales #i know everyone in the world has studied this shot! now i have too! #id like to spend more time on it next time i stopped after about 30 minutes so i mostly just carved shapes in #i think id also like to ! get some more different painting brushes bc i couldnt get a lot of the shapes i wanted #but it was fun trying to study this without color picking or directly drawing over the composition and everything #so i was just eyeballing it . ive been trying to figure out color relativity by Feeling it out so i wanted to do it this way #comparing them has been interesting ! i can see where i compressed some spaces of the composition #anyway it HAS been almost a year since i posted art here HAHA but well i just post for fun so it doesnt matter #if i posted ocs id have more art here but i prefer not to so you just get stuff whenever i make fanart #i would LOVE to do studies from the new movie but i dont have access to high quality screenshots yet #i actually did this as an exercise with one of my friends from college hehe we exchanged spiderverse screenshots to study #i also added some chromatic abberation you know just for fun . i made a version with it over the full piece but i thought well #i preferred it like this #anyway ! bye !

[roseworth]

i have a theory that my upstairs neighbor got a curse placed on them so every day after the sun goes down they have to do the loudest jumping jacks possible for an hour or they'll die

#what could they possibly be doing up there. #im like 99% sure that sound isnt them having sex. unless they have sex by hopping up and down in the middle of the living room #it drives me insane #when they first moved in there used to be this buzzing that sounded like a saw or something #but that stopped happening #now its just them moving around constantly #i think theyre exercising? can someone tell them that we have access to a gym for free on campus #and therefore they dont have to do this to me #id be such a good upstairs neighbor. i never get off this couch

[jill-question-mark]

Oh Xiao Jingyan, we’re really in it now.

#my art #digital art #nirvana in fire #fanart #nif #xiao jingyan #so i started this in april or so #then proceeded to have rsi in both hands rendering me unable to draw #or knit or garden or play the flute or try to finally use my journal #until hmm november 2022ish #anyway why not just go back to my old friend #realistic pencil portraits #except with access to liquify tool ha ha ha ha ha ha #sure i can’t draw accurately #but i can sure sculpt things around with liquify until they Feel Right #anyway my hands are fine but my back hurts. how are you i am over 40 years old #exercise and do stretches for your future #langya bang

[clueless1995]

self care has been so twisted into serving capitalism and the patriarchy it makes me sick actually

#like the reason everyone started talking about self care was because people were getting burnt out by their jobs and lives in general #and like. specifically women who are usually expected to be selfless in their lives #self care was a way to reframe ‘being selfish’ i.e. taking time for yourself to relax #which was NEEDED BECAUSE CAPITALISM HAS INGRAINED INTO PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD FEEL GUILTY IF THEY ARENT CONSTANTLY PRODUCING LABOUR #and now ads are like. buy this leg waxing kit for SELF CARE you DESERVE it. buy this $90 foundation to hide your disgusting skin for SELF CA #RE #did you know it’s SELF CARE to meditate. but only about how you can be more productive and efficient #i see that one a lot on productivity reddit which i joined several years ago trying to manage my undiagnosed adhd and now i stay because i #find the expectations people have for themselves to be Wild #anyway if someone is telling you you need to buy something or spend money to exercise self care they do not care about your wellbeing they #care about getting your money #also if you’re a girl/woman and someone is trying to tell you that something is self care consider if they would suggest the same thing to #boys/men. like if they’re trying to tell you that cosmetics or hair removal or plastic surgery is self care they are lying to you #self care should be free and accessible and gender neutral and if it isn’t then think about who is actually benefiting

[shih-coulda-had-it]

take five, torino

#bnha #nanahiko #shimura nana #gran torino #torino sorahiko #shih's art #contained in this piece are three beloathed exercises: #background; realistic illustrating; and perspective #where are they?? some kinda place with rooftop access #maybe it's the ua building and sorahiko is on lunch break

[comehithercornking]

hey babe, wake up, new reason to abolish the police force just dropped

#imagine being a peaceful protester in a space you PAY to have the right to access and the police force deciding to literally attack you. #imagine having no weapons and law enforcement decides that your words are too dangerous and so they physically beat you #NYPD and Columbia University are rotten to the core. why is saying ‘genocide is bad’ so scary to these people #why have they sacrificed their humanity for money and public image and power #no political agenda is worth children and innocent people dying #what’s happening at Columbia and UCLA to the pro-Palestinian protesters sickens me #because apparently neo-nazis and white supremacists are simply exercising their right to free speech #but a student questioning the government is the source of all evil in the world and must be stopped #I’ve been an abolitionist and I will STAY an abolitionist but sometimes it still shocks me how terrible our governmental systems can be #free palestine #don’t stop talking about palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #genocide is never ok. the fact that that isn’t something that can go unsaid is abhorrent

[patchwork-crow-writes]

It's been almost an entire year and I still get a little upset whenever I think about Tales of Symphonia "Remastered". What a waste of time and hype, honestly.

Compare to Metroid Prime Remaster which came out around the same time. While not really a remaster in the truest sense of the word, at least it has the decency to look amazing, play better than the original release, and have every type of control scheme going.

Then back to ToSR with its five-second loading screens between each encounter. In an 80+ hour JRPG. And let's not bring up the AI-upscaled graphical "Improvements". Or the 30fps-locked framerate, when Gamecube ran seamlessly at 60.

What I'm saying is emulate Tales of Symphonia for the Gamecube and play it if you haven't yet done so. Save yourself 40+ quid and experience the game as it's meant to be experienced.

Sincerely, an old person whose first JRPG was Tales of Symphonia.

#rambling #tales of symphonia #tales of symphonia remastered #remasters #rant #I mean you could say this about most games with the label “Remastered” slapped onto them #At least make it look like you put SOME effort into upscaling the textures #I'm all for accessibility and archiving of old games but in a lot of cases it's just an exercise in making money off of nostalgia #okay I'm gonna shut up now

[angelnumber27]

I want to draw my dreams but I don’t know if they are clear enough in my head for me to get a comprehensible image out of. Idk if that makes sense but I want to take what I dream about visualize it and create things based on it

#it might even help idk #the subconscious is entirely unpredictable #I would like to learn how to have more control over my subconscious. I’m sure it’s possible through mindfulness and certain exercises #not only to have more control over it but also to have more access to it. like to see what’s there and visualize it all and use that to 1/2 #help me in my recovery #it’s strange because they’re always very vivid. it’s just the act of interpreting a dream on a piece of paper that’s difficult #giving it a physical form

[an-undercover-bi]

I am having to deal with so much Disability Services bullshit at my university right now so. . .

Here’s a sick academia-related tip for every chronically ill person out there:

Document. Everything. For real.

• Take detailed notes during accessibility-related meetings.

• Print out any accessibility related emails (your emails you send, their emails they send) with the dates clearly specified.

• Record the accessibility meetings themselves*.

It’s also worth noting that simply choosing not to delete the emails you send may not be sufficient depending on the email provider’s policy regarding old emails and how stable your internet connection/access to internet is.

So, paper copies are best.

To keep the emails: print them out, stick them in a folder or a binder and use sticky tabs to label the general subject discussed.

Trust me. This will come in handy.

You have rights. Exercise them.

* Check on your country’s/state’s laws prior to recording others without gathering consent first. These vary by country and locality. In my state—Virginia—it’s a single-party state, so only one “party” [in my case, me] needs to know the meeting is recorded). Make sure you know the laws in your area regarding this before you record.

#disability #disabled academia #disability academia #know your rights #exercise your rights #americans with disabilities act #academia tips #college tips #university tips #disability services #accessibility services #education accessibility #right to education #spoonie #spoonie tips #chronically ill #chronic illness #if you need anyone to talk things through with on this subject #I’m happy to help #I can’t promise I’ll have the answer #but a win for one of us is a win for all of us #education reform #disability rights #disability activism #disability advocacy #disability advice #accessibility #disabled student #disabled students #students with disabilities