anyone know of any wheelchair exercises that can be done at a gym?

pjberto

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I have a friend who is confined to a wheelchair because of spina bifida, so he has absolutely no use of his legs. He wants to lose weight and says his upper body is big enough and does not want to work it out. He cannot swim either...he says he'll sink like a rock. So, he just recently got a membership at my gym and we're having a hard time figuring out what kind of exercises he can do.

We do crunches and play basketball and I tell him to just do like 100 reps of light weight on the machines he can use...I dont know what else to suggest he do. He also has stability issues in the chair. any suggestions?
 
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