Who Founded
STRENTOR is coached by a wheelchair user who was told which rooms he could not get into, and went on to compete as a national-level para powerlifter. That is the whole reason it exists, and the reason the coaching looks the way it does.
STRENTOR is a founder-led, wheelchair-first holistic strength platform that helps wheelchair users build seated strength, confidence, resilience, and daily fitness habits through adaptive coaching and sponsored access seats.
Verified credentials
- Wheelchair user, born with Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele
- Certified Fitness Trainer & Nutrition Consultant
- National-level para powerlifter, and multiple-time district and state champion
- Achievers Award, Spina Bifida Organization of India
Aditya Mandan — Founder, STRENTOR
How STRENTOR started
It started with being turned away
Aditya Mandan was born with Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele and Hydrocephalus. The first obstacle was not training — it was schooling. Most schools were not accessible, few people understood his condition, and some suggested he be placed in a school for children with intellectual disabilities.
A trainer noticed what he could lift
Academics were never where his attention went; music and exercising were. A fitness trainer watched him work and recognised something specific — he could lift heavy weights. That is what pointed him at para powerlifting, and at qualifying as a certified fitness trainer.
It became competition, then coaching
Aditya reached the national level in para powerlifting, was a district and state champion several times over, and was once named Strongman of Mumbai. He turned what he had worked out about training his own body into a way of coaching other people — and STRENTOR has since been voted Most Trusted Online Platform for Physical, Mental & Emotional Mentorship by its own clients.
What that changes about your coaching
Your starting point isn't a modification
Programs here are built for a seated body from the first session, rather than a standing-body plan with exercises swapped out afterwards.
Health context is part of the plan, not a disclaimer
Fatigue, pain, appointments and the weeks where your body simply has less to give are planned around, rather than treated as you falling behind a schedule that was never built for you.
Nobody is going to be surprised by your body
You will not spend your first sessions explaining what a transfer is, why a movement doesn't work for you, or what your chair can and cannot do.
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“Working with Aditya I've seen good results in the past few months! My workouts are constantly increasing in difficulty and scope focused to match my fitness goals. Aditya suggests exercise routines that are individualized and challenging, but not more than I handle.”
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