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NextStep Fitness

5/10/2011

 
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Janne Kouri, President and Founder of NextStep Fitness, a state-of-the-art  specialized gym facility in Lawndale, California, is an advocate with a focused  dream: “…to expand NextStep Fitness in communities of
need throughout the U.S., so people living with paralysis or disability would have access to community-based fitness options. This is a nationwide problem, and it needs to be addressed,” he  says.

This mission is inspired by Kouri’s own journey. In 2006,  while playing beach volleyball with friends, Kouri took a break and dove into  the water to cool off; he hit his head on a sandbar and was instantly paralyzed  from the neck down. He then began a challenging rehabilitation for his spinal  cord injury at Fraizer Rehab Institute in Louisville, Kentucky.  His background as an avid exerciser and former college football athlete at Georgetown University equipped him with a unique  sensibility for tackling the demands of his recovery.


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