# Gathering Strength: Gathering Strength for Living Your Best Life

> Our mission is to empower people with physically disabling conditions by ensuring equitable access to community resources and spaces, technology, and better health\.

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## Pages
- [Adaptive Recreation Showcase](https://gatheringstrength.org/adaptive-recreation-showcase/)
- [Fall Game Hangout](https://gatheringstrength.org/fall-game-hangout/)
- [Home](https://gatheringstrength.org/)
- [Events](https://gatheringstrength.org/events/)
- [Classes](https://gatheringstrength.org/classes/)

## Posts
- [Gathering Strength selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to study accessible housing\.](https://gatheringstrength.org/gathering-strength-selected-for-robert-wood-johnson-foundation-grant-to-study-accessible-housing/)

## Class
- [Seated Mindful Movement](https://gatheringstrength.org/class/mindful-movement/)
- [Seated Cardio \& Core](https://gatheringstrength.org/class/seated-cardio-and-core/)
- [Seated Strength and Endurance](https://gatheringstrength.org/class/seated-strength-and-endurance/)

## Stories
- [Herb, T\-6 Spinal Cord Injury](https://gatheringstrength.org/story/herb-t-6-spinal-cord-injury/): Herb Henry is a local entrepreneur in Louisville, Ky, and an advocate for people with disabling conditions\. He engages in a variety of exercise and recreational activities and helps other people who use wheelchairs to be active too\. Herb plays on the Louisville Spokes and Spires wheelchair basketball team\. He also enjoys handcycling, and generously shares his handcycle with others\. See the video below to see him handcycling\. He’s also a chin\-up evangelist, advising that one way to exercise at home is to put a chin\-up bar in a door frame\.

Check out Herb’s company, Competitors Edge at https://competitorsedge\.net/ He also has started a nonprofit corporation in Louisville, Ky called Live the Edge By Example\.
- [Jenny, C6\-7 Spinal Cord Injury](https://gatheringstrength.org/story/jenny-c6-7-spinal-cord-injury/): Jenny is a 30\-year survivor of a C6\-7 spinal cord injury\. One of the many ways she stays physically active is by rowing with the adapted rowing team of the Louisville Rowing Club in Louisville, Ky\. 

In the video she is rowing in the Bayada Regatta, an adaptive rowing competition in Philadelphia, PA in 2019\. She uses a fixed seat, a chest strap, gloves that assist with gripping the oars, and she rows with an able\-bodied partner\. 

Check out her helpful and inspiring blog at https://jennysmithrollson\.com\. The adaptive rowing team meets on the water in Louisville from May through October\. Indoor lessons are provided during the Winter\. Contact program director Randy Mills at 502\-419\-0033 or randy\.mills0033@yahoo\.com\.

Participants of all abilities are welcome\. Rowing is a sport for everyone\.
- [Tom, C4 Incomplete SCI](https://gatheringstrength.org/story/tom-c4-incomplete-sci/): Tom has a C4 incomplete spinal cord injury\. When he first began exercising he had a hard time standing on his own\. After approximately a year of exercising in the Community Fitness and Wellness program at Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, Ky, he was able to stand without assistance\. Note, in the video below, that he is standing against resistance–there are elastic bands around his shoulders and connected to dumbbells\.
- [Terrell, T10 Spinal Cord Injury](https://gatheringstrength.org/story/terrell-t10-spinal-cord-injury/): Terrell suffered a thoracic spinal cord injury, leaving him paraplegic\. He uses a wheelchair, but is able to get out of the chair to exercise at the Community Fitness and Wellness gym at Frazier Rehab Institute\. There are several sophisticated pieces of equipment at the gym, but he also uses the hi/lo mat to approximate a bent\-over row exercise to strengthen his back\. He enjoys the challenge of an obstacle course, which exercises and strengthens his whole body: hips, core, back, arms, and shoulders\.
- [Raymond, Stroke](https://gatheringstrength.org/story/raymond-stroke/): Raymond had a stroke in 2015\. He uses functional electrical stimulation on his affected arm and leg to do upper\-extremity and lower\-extremity cycling\. The stimulation activates the muscles to contract in the proper sequence for cycling\. Also, with adaptive tools, such as a glove and a leg stabilizer, he gets cardiovascular exercise on a Nustep recumbent stepper\.

## Accessible Places
- [21C Museum Hotel](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessible-places/21c-museum-hotel/)
- [Community Fitness and Wellness Gym](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessible-places/community-fitness-and-wellness-gym/)
- [Cherokee Park](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessible-places/cherokee-park/)
- [Waterfront Park](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessible-places/waterfront-park/)
- [Waterfront Botanical Gardens](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessible-places/waterfront-botanical-gardens/)

## Venues
- [Outdoor](https://gatheringstrength.org/venue/outdoor/)
- [Restaurants](https://gatheringstrength.org/venue/restaurants/)
- [Arts \& Museums](https://gatheringstrength.org/venue/arts-museums/)
- [Distilleries \& Breweries](https://gatheringstrength.org/venue/distilleries-breweries/)
- [Major Attractions](https://gatheringstrength.org/venue/major-attractions/)

## Accessibility Features
- [Accessible Space](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessibility_features/accessible-space/)
- [Accessible Parking](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessibility_features/accessible-parking/)
- [Close Proximity Parking](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessibility_features/close-proximity-parking/)
- [Accessible Path](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessibility_features/accessible-path/)
- [Accessible Seating](https://gatheringstrength.org/accessibility_features/accessible-seating/)

## Optional
- [Sitemap index](https://gatheringstrength.org/sitemap_index.xml)