Webinar: A Space Within a Space: Expanding Your Reach to Grow Membership
Many fitness centers cater to the majority but often unintentionally exclude individuals with mobility challenges, chronic conditions, or age-related limitations. Rather than overhauling your entire facility, this webinar explores how to create a dedicated “space within a space” designed to meet the needs of these under served populations.
Learn practical strategies to adapt your current equipment and programming, as well as guidance on integrating specialized equipment that enhances accessibility. Whether you're working with a tight budget or planning for larger investments, you'll gain actionable ideas to expand your reach and grow your membership.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the limitations of traditional equipment for special populations.
2. Explore both equipment modifications and specialty options to improve accessibility
3. Discover flexible strategies to create inclusive spaces within existing facilities & Review scalable approaches for facilities of all sizes and budgets.
Speaker: Dr. Aaron Aslakson, Assistant Professor of Exercise Science at Crown College
This webinar is sponsored by HUR USA, an MFA Industry Partner.
Dr. Aaron Aslakson is Assistant Professor and Director of Exercise Science at Crown College in St. Bonifacius, MN, as well as Director of the Human Performance Laboratory. Previously he spent 13 years as the Director of Fitness Centers for Walker Methodist, a senior living organization in Minneapolis, MN, where he conducted personal training, taught group exercise classes and oversaw 11 Fitness Centers. He is actively involved in the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and regularly presents nationally level for the International Council on Active Aging (ICAA) and SCW Fitness.