 Our product designers work closely with the IFI (Inclusive Fitness Initiative), which is an organisation that seeks to promote access to fitness equipment for all people. As a result we have a huge variety of certified inclusive machines with new inclusive features as standard across all our ranges.
Pulse was also the first company to introduce a wheel chair access, range of strength equipment with the assistance of Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson (Paralympic multi Gold medalist). This range has been further developed with the help of the IFI and incorporated into our 'Evolve' range.
The IFI has been in operation since 2001, receiving funding from the Sport England Lottery Fund. The IFI operates around five key principles:
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Inclusive fitness equipment |
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Accessible facilities |
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Staff with appropriate training and skills |
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Appropriate, inclusive marketing strategies |
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The development of alternative inclusive sporting opportunities |
The combination of these elements ensures that the IFI creates not only accessible facilities, but inclusive environments.
Key to ensuring inclusive facilities is sensible, appropriate and inclusive fitness equipment selection. The IFI has been working in partnership with Pulse for more than five years to ensure that the equipment is as inclusive as current technology and development will permit.
The IFI has worked alongside the industry to create the accredited list of fitness equipment, the only list of its kind anywhere in the world and Pulse offer some of the most inclusive fitness equipment available on the market today.
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