The fitness industry can feel alienating if you’re not young, slim and able-bodied, but a few determined individuals are ensuring it’s radically more inclusive
As a teenager, Rob Ghahremani loved working out in his local gym, but he couldn’t use the resistance area because of the steps. The 27-year-old broke his spinal cord in a car accident when he was 10 months old and uses a wheelchair. “Accessible is a funny word, isn’t it?” he muses. “That gym was supposedly accessible, but you couldn’t get to the resistance area unless someone lifted you down.”
At least Ghahremani could get into the gym. Lauretta Johnnie, 51, once got caught in an entry turnstile and had to ask the receptionist to open the service entrance. “The receptionist kept saying: ‘Oh gosh, I’m so sorry!” recalls Johnnie, who is plus-size. “I don’t know who she was embarrassed for: me or her.”
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