The Eyes Free Sports Podcast: Ep. 7 - A Chat with Leslie Spoone on Personal Fitness for the Blind

In Episode 7 of the Eyes Free Sports podcast, certified personal trainer and aerobics instructor Leslie Spoone joined the conversation to talk about:

• Simple physical exercises blind and visually impaired individuals can do from home during the Coronavirus pandemic or at any other time
• How to do chair yoga
• Using a white cane to perform certain individual exercises or exercises with other individuals
• Strategies to make inaccessible exercise equipment more accessible to blind and visually impaired users
• The fact that more blind and visually impaired individuals are very active than many stereo types portray

Leslie welcomes questions and comments at lesliespoone@cfl.rr.com. As mentioned during the podcast episode, she will also be holding some free Zoom conference calls on chair yoga through the American Council of the Blind. More details on these calls can be found here.