At Abilities Centre in Whitby, Canada, inclusion is part of everyday exercise. As a recognized Centre of Excellence for inclusive design, Abilities Centre works to create opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to participate, train and be active together.
The HUR Room is part of Abilities Centre’s inclusive exercise environment, supporting personalized and accessible training for people with different abilities and needs — from rehabilitation and active aging to athletes and wheelchair users.
HUR Featured on Breakfast Television
The HUR Room was recently featured on Breakfast Television Canada, offering viewers a firsthand look at how accessible exercise can work in practice.
During the visit, Breakfast Television correspondent Carlos Bustamante explored the HUR equipment together with the Abilities Centre team. The segment demonstrated how pneumatic resistance and personalized exercise settings can make strength training adaptable to a wide range of users — from rehabilitation and active aging to athletes and wheelchair users.
The Abilities Centre team also highlighted an important principle behind the HUR Room: it is not designed for one particular group of people. Instead, people with different abilities can exercise in the same environment, with training adapted to their individual needs.
Watch the Breakfast Television feature and see inclusive exercise in action at Abilities Centre.
A Visit from Canada’s Secretary of State for Sport
The importance of inclusive sport and physical activity was also highlighted during a recent visit by the Honourable Adam van Koeverden, Canada’s Secretary of State for Sport, together with Members of Parliament Ryan Turnbull and Juanita Nathan.
Following discussions with Abilities Centre’s leadership about its work in inclusive design, the tour of the facility began in the HUR Room.
During the visit, Secretary of State van Koeverden experienced HUR equipment firsthand and learned more about how the accessible training environment supports people of different ages and abilities.
The visit continued across Abilities Centre’s programs and facilities, including wheelchair basketball and meetings with athletes and participants — demonstrating how inclusive design can create opportunities for people to participate together.
Secretary of State for Sport Visits Abilities Centre
Strength for Every Ability
These recent moments at Abilities Centre show what inclusive exercise can look like in practice: people with different abilities, backgrounds and goals training in the same environment, with support that adapts to the individual.
For HUR, this is at the heart of accessible exercise. Technology should not define who can participate; it should help create more possibilities for participation. By adapting resistance, exercise settings and training guidance to individual needs, the same training environment can support someone in rehabilitation, an older adult building strength and independence, a wheelchair user, or an athlete working toward their next goal.
Different people. Different goals. One shared opportunity to build strength through movement.