This article describes some of the barriers experienced by people with mobility and visual disabilities when they use fitness facilities and specific ways to remove or reduce these barriers. It explains your right to use an accessible fitness facility and teaches you how to advocate for changes.

The following sections offer you practical tips, questions to ask, places to go for more information and assistance, and ways to make fitness centers more accessible. The article describes many low or no cost solutions that can be used immediately, and also gives you resources and information to help you work with fitness centers for better long-term solutions.