Fitness Is for Everyone – Adaptive Sports Coloring Book

Paperback – August 28, 2025
By Leslie Manning & Stephanie Ford

Give kids the power to see themselves as athletes.
Fitness Is for Everyone is a beautifully illustrated coloring book designed especially for children with physical challenges who are discovering movement, play, and adaptive sports. Created by Leslie Manning and Stephanie Ford—both passionate advocates for inclusive fitness—this book celebrates strength, resilience, and the joy of staying active at any ability level.

What’s Inside

• Inclusive, empowering illustrations featuring kids using wheelchairs, prosthetics, and other adaptive equipment

• Scenes from adaptive sports like wheelchair racing, CrossFit-style workouts, seated yoga, swimming, climbing, throwing, and more

• Confidence-boosting messages that encourage exploring fitness in fun, accessible ways

• Creativity and engagement for kids, siblings, parents, teachers, and therapists

• Perfect for rehab clinics, adaptive gyms, schools, and families

Why Kids Love It

This book lets young athletes—especially those who don’t often see themselves represented—color characters who look like them. It sparks conversations, builds confidence, and supports early engagement in movement and fitness.

Why Parents, Coaches & Therapists Love It

• Reinforces positive associations with physical activity

• Helps normalize adaptive sports and equipment

• Great for waiting rooms, classroom activities, and therapy sessions

• Encourages kids to dream big, set goals, and stay active in ways that feel good to them

Perfect For

• Children with mobility challenges

• Adaptive sport beginners

• Rehab and physical therapy patients

• Pediatric clinics & adaptive gyms

• Gift baskets, holiday giving, and community events