{"id":11693,"date":"2024-05-16T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2024-05-16T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T10:49:18","slug":"webcast-with-uk-disability-expert-sam-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/webcast-with-uk-disability-expert-sam-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcast with UK disability expert, Sam James"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Not only is Sam James an award winning, highly qualified disability and neurological conditions fitness expert; Sam has recently been shortlisted in the Disability power 100 list 2024. What a pleasure to chat with Sam &#8211; watch the webcast now!<\/h2>\n<p>These are the questions we covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What stops people with a disability engaging in exercise?<\/li>\n<li>Why do people with a disability need to exercise? And more importantly why should non-disabled people advocate for this offering?<\/li>\n<li>Are there are generalisations that people with a disability might feel (real or perceived) about fitness professionals and establishments?<\/li>\n<li>What is the best way to communicate to someone with a disability?<\/li>\n<li>How do you communicate effectively to your clients including your non-disabled clients?<\/li>\n<li>What is CP? What is the best language to use about disabilities? For example, you said using the term cerebral palsy is best avoided \u2013 using the term CP instead.<\/li>\n<li>What are some misconceptions that you can speak of?<\/li>\n<li>Can you let us know your thoughts on the lack of visibility and also representation \u2013 how does a non-disabled person be an advocate and not fall into the trap of tokenism?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FitPro&#039;s Teresa Wheatley chats with UK disability expert, Sam James\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sdfjMYgBF6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A little bit more about Sam&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image0-300x201.png\" alt=\"Sam James headshot \" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image0-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image0-600x403.png 600w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image0-400x269.png 400w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image0.png 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"oypena\">Not only is <strong>Sam <\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"oypena\">James <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"oypena\">an award winning, highly qualified disability <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">and<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> neurological conditions fitness expert<\/span><span class=\"oypena\">; <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">Sam is shortlisted in the Disability power 100 list 2024<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> &#8211; t<\/span><span class=\"oypena\">he most powerful disabled people in the UK. She has worked with all types of disabilities for over a decade. Sam is the UK<\/span><span class=\"oypena\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"oypena\">s first disabled fitness presenter, paving the way for a far more inclusive fitness industry where disabled people are seen in the exactly <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">the <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">same light as her <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">non-disabled<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> peers. Sam has presented at the top UK fitness conventions including: IFS, Elevate, MoveFit, LIW, Project Mayhem Events and at the Motability roadshow.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"cvgsua\"><span class=\"oypena\">Alongside teaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inclusfit.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fitness classes <\/a><\/span><span class=\"oypena\">and personal training<\/span><span class=\"oypena\">, she is a speaker who will <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">talk<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> about all aspects of disability including her own experiences within the medical world with having cerebral palsy. She is an educator <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">and<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> alongside other qualifications, tutors the designing exercise programmes for disabled <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">client\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> qualification<\/span><span class=\"oypena\">. Sam<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> is extremely passionate about not only educating the fitness industry on inclusion of disabled clients <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">and<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> the true meaning of what inclusive <\/span><span class=\"oypena\">means,<\/span><span class=\"oypena\"> but she actively works with disabled people in not only getting them active but keeping them active.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is Sam James an award winning, highly qualified disability and neurological conditions fitness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3074],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-webcast"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11768,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions\/11768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}