Adaptive fitness · A Lipson Foundation program
Adapthletics
Positive Progress Is Possible
Fitness that adapts to the athlete: strength, mobility, and confidence for people with disabilities, with every movement fitted to the body doing it. Completely cost-free, like everything the Lipson Foundation builds.
Original · Est. 2022
- Health & Wellness
- Personal Growth
What we offer
Adaptive fitness training — strength, mobility, and conditioning with the movements, pace, and goals fitted to each athlete's body. Adapted, never watered down. Every body welcome, at any starting point. And like everything the foundation runs, completely cost-free: no memberships, no fees, no fine print.
How we offer it
In person
Hands-on adaptive training in South Florida — Palm Beach County and surrounding counties, in spaces the community already uses.
How we offer it
Virtual
Adaptive coaching online, wherever you are — the same training, fitted to your body and whatever equipment you have.
Why this exists
Adapthletics is named and designed by our founder, Zachary Lipson, who lives with hereditary spastic paraplegia. What changed his life was not a cure. It was access — to training, to people who believed he could, to a place that did not ask what he could afford. Adapthletics exists to be that access for someone else: a program where the training bends to the athlete, never the other way around, and where cost is never the reason someone stops.
This one is not starting from zero
Adapthletics has existed since 2022 — first as Original Adapthletics, the adaptive training practice Zach built and coached himself. The foundation is bringing it home and removing the last barrier: the cost.
Est. 2022
Founded as Original Adapthletics — years of adaptive training before it ever had a website.
Certified
ATA Adaptive & Inclusive Training certification (2022) and the MedFit Adaptive Fitness Specialist specialization.
In the gym
Years coaching athletes with disabilities — wheelchair users included — on real equipment, at real intensity.
From the Ground Up
Zach's interview series spotlighting adaptive athletes and pioneers, one story at a time.
An athlete himself
Races Spartan obstacle courses while living with hereditary spastic paraplegia.
In the community
Speaker for the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation and a working voice for disability visibility.
The whole story is on the feed: @lipsonfoundation on Instagram.
The interview series
From the Ground Up
Before Adapthletics was a foundation program, Zach was already handing the mic to the people who prove what adaptive athletes can do. Every episode is one athlete, one story, no shortcuts — guests so far include Brendan Aylward, Zachary Josie, Matt Morton, Tony Jacobsen, Ricky Shic.
Straight from Spotify — every new episode Zach uploads lands here automatically.
Watch the episodes on @lipsonfoundation.