Today Daniella tackles the challenges of a wheelchair workout while staying home, she has some great tips…

With her regular wheelchair workout interrupted by COVID-19, she has been working with her Trainer on-line to keep up the consistency.

Being wheelchair-bound creates challenges for working out in normal circumstances, but the COVID-19 pandemic has upped the degree of difficulty, not easily discouraged, Daniella is up to the challenge.

This easy to do at home wheelchair workout only requires a few simple items

• Towel or yoga mat
• Light dumbells
• Resistance band

Keeping physically fit during the COVID-19 pandemic is an important factor for us to keeping healthy over the next few months. You should find some way of including a workout in your daily routine.

• Its important for our at-home lifestyle

Limited room does not mean that we have fewer things to do, we still have to do most of the things we need to do and in some cases, we will be required to do that with less help. Staying fit will reduce the frustration and fatigue of the challenges of social isolation 

• It will be important to our mobility for the things we ant achieve when this is all over

It will be easy to create bad habits over the next few months that can actually rob us of the lifestyle we have worked so hard to achieve. Our wheelchair workouts will ensure that when this is all over we will bounce back to our old life.

• It’s important for our mental health.

The University of Melbourne has stated this week “…The uncertainty associated with COVID-19, the disruption to usual routines, the need for working from home or self-isolating can have significant impacts on your wellbeing and mental health”

Daniella’s routine includes:

Warmup

• Neck stretches 
• Side to side & Up and Down
• Tree Huggers
• Arm Stretch and Twists

Then the actual wheelchair workout

Exercises Arm Circles Right, Center & Left

Resistance Band, Chest, Forehead, Goalposts

Around the Worlds with weights, Upward rows 3 sets of 12

Bicep Curls 3 sets of 12

With gyms closing, social events being shut down and opportunities that we usually have for getting out and doing things, wh have to make a way in our routines for the important things. 

Want more? Let Daniella know on the bottom of her video, she loves to know what her fans want to see and hear.

Once again we are thankful for Daniella’s posts to keep us all motivated. We hope that Daniella’s in-home wheelchair workout will be an inspiration for you to be your best self during these challenging times.

[Melissa Hale] I find that the women’s comp is really nurturing and supportive, and it’s just beautiful, and it’s empowering.

[Adam Cassidy] The National Cricket Inclusion Championships brings together basically the 250 best cricketers. Men and women across Australia, who have a disability. Having the deaf women’s division this year is the culmination of incredible work that’s been going on by the deaf community in particular and Melissa Hale. So today’s a real celebration but it’s also an acknowledgment that there’s a lot of work to do.

[Melissa Hale] Some of these women are really stepping outside of their comfort zone and they’re thriving and they all know that they’re part of something bigger.

[Chloe] I’ve been playing cricket for about 15 years. I started when I was 13 years old. I think it’s awesome to be able to play in this team. To represent your state, to be able to play with the girls, you’re going to make a lifetime friend. [Hailey] I guess for me it means all supporting each other, all understanding where we’re coming from, working as a team. It doesn’t matter what type of skills we have, we all accept each other for who we are.

[Adam Cassidy] It’s providing a really good social outlet for people all over Australia. We’ve got nearly 27,000 participants now with a disability and the impact of that is really big.

[Jessica] It’s a lot of fun, there’s great friendships, a lot of learning and skill development because a lot of us are new and there’s a couple of them that are role models. We are quite new but with a bit of mentoring and role models in the team, hopefully we’ll see better teams in the future.

[Melissa Hale] My advice to other women with disabilities is to step out of your comfort zone and try something new. And never let anyone tell you that you can’t because there’s always a way and cricket is one of those opportunities. If you want to give cricket a go, please do, come and join us. We would love to have you here.

ONI: Hey, my name is Oni and I’m an NDIS participant. When I was born they did some injections and it gave me a stroke and made me deaf. Since I was deaf I couldn’t really learn how to talk so for around about six years of my life I wasn’t able to talk and hear. And after I was six, I was still not very well developed in English because obviously not being able to hear anything for a lot of your life is very hard.

CHELINAY: I couldn’t see a way forward for him so easily. And I couldn’t think that he would actually be independent. Since NDIS, he’s had lots of speech therapy, and if you’d spoken to him say a year and a half ago, you wouldn’t be able to understand him. I couldn’t understand him.

ONI: I’ve been working with a speech therapist to get my speech up and it’s really helping. I can say a few more words and actually pronounce them properly and all that.

CHELINAY: For him it was very moving when he went to NDIS, and the number of times he’s been, he’s been served by people who have disabilities of various types. ONI: One of the best things is that they hire disability people. They don’t think that they should just be looked after, they hire them and they help them through their work and all that.

CHELINAY: He’s only been in one year and the changes have been remarkable. I’ve seen his confidence improve out of sight. I’ve heard him be able to speak and say words that we didn’t even know he knew.

ONI: With being deaf a lot of my life, dealing with it by myself isn’t really an option. NDIS has been there for a lot of this year and they’ve really been helping me through with the speech therapist and all other sort of stuff.

CHELINAY: In one year he’s made enormous changes that are unrecognisable. He’ll have funding for this next period to set him up and then that will end this year. And then, as far as he’s concerned, he no longer has a disability but he is being enabled to go on with his life.

ONI: Looking forward to actually learning the experiences of being a teller and actually working in a bank. Every single school week, I’ll be doing one day off where I’m working at the bank. I’ll have that until I’m in year 12. Depending on whether or not they want to hire me, they’ll either put me up to an official teller or an official worker at their bank, or they’ll try to help me find a different job.

CHELINAY: My hope is that his heart shines. Because he’s an incredible young man, he’s a deep thinker and he has a way of coming out of hardship.