What Does Adaptive Strength Training Look Like With Spina Bifida, CKD, or a Chronic Condition?
Adaptive strength and nutrition coaching for wheelchair users with spina bifida, CKD, chronic health realities, or long-term physical challenges—programmed around your body, not a standing-body template. Coaching is led by Aditya Mandan, a wheelchair user, certified trainer, and national-level para powerlifter who has lived this exact challenge.
Meet Your Coach
From breaking barriers as a para powerlifter to transforming lives through fitness
Aditya Mandan
Qualifications
What We Offer
Specialized Coaching
Explore coaching built around your specific circumstances.
Wheelchair Fitness Coaching in India
Full strength, nutrition, and mindset coaching for clients anywhere in India — coached by a national-level para powerlifter.
Spina Bifida Fitness Coaching
Personalized coaching built around your ability level, not a generic program.
Cerebral Palsy Fitness Coaching
Adaptive coaching built around your movement pattern, with condition-specific safety screening.
Down Syndrome Fitness Coaching
Personalized coaching with standard safety screening (atlantoaxial, cardiac) built in.
CKD-Aware Strength Coaching
Strength and nutrition coaching designed to work alongside your medical team.
The Physical Dimension
What Adaptive Training Actually Looks Like
The training concepts behind every plan — not footage of a specific client or session.
Range of Motion
Every movement is coached through your safe, comfortable, usable range — and progressed as your mobility improves.
Controlled Tempo
Deliberate pacing on every rep — control matters more than speed.
Assisted → Independent
Reps progress from assisted to unassisted as strength builds — the same exercise, less support needed.
What You Can Here
Five areas coaching is built to help you work on. What you take from them depends on where you're starting.
Build usable strength
Upper-body and seated strength you can actually use, in training and in the rest of your day.
Train without guessing
A plan built around your mobility, energy, equipment and health context, so every session has a reason behind it.
Build a routine that holds
Repeatable training and accountability that adapt when a week doesn't go to plan, rather than resetting.
Progress toward your own goal
A performance target or something specific in daily life — progress is measured against the goal you set, not a generic benchmark.
Coaching alongside your care
Structured training, nutrition guidance and accountability that work with your existing medical care — never a substitute for it.
Real Stories of
Working with Aditya for over a year now and he is arguably the best fitness coach you could ask for. From personalized workouts to diet, he takes care of everything. Having Spina Bifida, I had my doubts whether lifting heaving weights is for me but he helped overcome those hurdles with ease!
Chaitanya Shetty
Aditya is a brilliant trainer. He pushed me when it was needed and cherished every fitness milestone that I achieved.
Tanushree Das
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.
Promila Dsilva
Sessions with Aditya Sir used to be a fun time indeed. The best was he used to take 1 on 1 session with a customised routine as per the ability of the person. Being a PwD I never found any exercise which was too tough for me. Yes he always push me beyond my limits but I never found any discomfort with his routine. Plus he also provides emotional and psychological support and guidance whenever it's needed.
Garima Sareen
Aditya is very knowledgeable, disciplined, motivational trainer. I enjoy the workout sessions with him as even difficult routines are done in good humour and warmth. He is regular, very punctual and always available to respond to my queires. Training with him I learnt this - You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. Aditya will make you amongst those few. He himself is a big motivation for me. If you have the passion in you then join Aditya, the Strentor Mentor
Sonia Kamat
Working with Aditya for over a year now and he is arguably the best fitness coach you could ask for. From personalized workouts to diet, he takes care of everything. Having Spina Bifida, I had my doubts whether lifting heaving weights is for me but he helped overcome those hurdles with ease!
Chaitanya Shetty
Aditya is a brilliant trainer. He pushed me when it was needed and cherished every fitness milestone that I achieved.
Tanushree Das
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.
Promila Dsilva
Sessions with Aditya Sir used to be a fun time indeed. The best was he used to take 1 on 1 session with a customised routine as per the ability of the person. Being a PwD I never found any exercise which was too tough for me. Yes he always push me beyond my limits but I never found any discomfort with his routine. Plus he also provides emotional and psychological support and guidance whenever it's needed.
Garima Sareen
Aditya is very knowledgeable, disciplined, motivational trainer. I enjoy the workout sessions with him as even difficult routines are done in good humour and warmth. He is regular, very punctual and always available to respond to my queires. Training with him I learnt this - You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. Aditya will make you amongst those few. He himself is a big motivation for me. If you have the passion in you then join Aditya, the Strentor Mentor
Sonia Kamat
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