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The purpose of this study is to prepare the ground for a healthy life for physically challenged women who restrictively participate in physical activities, by enabling them to maintain their physical and mental functions adequately. This was done by investigating how the sitting badminton program has affected the women’s body composition and psychological resilience quotient. In this study, a total of 20 physically challenged women (15 functionally challenged women, 5 women with joint disorders) were selected. They were aged 40 or over, were living in “City A” and wanted to take part in the sitting badminton program at “Welfare Center B for the Disabled.” Among these 20 participants, 10 people were randomly placed in the experimental group and the other 10 people were ramdomly put in the controlled group. The data obtained from this study was used in calculating the average values and standard deviations among each group and between the groups, for each dependent variable. The IBM SPSS Statistics 19.0 Program was used in this study. Comparisons between each group’s average values obtained in the study were made by “analyzing the covariance.” These comparisons were made by using the preliminary readings as the covariates, and the statistical significance was set at 0.05. The result of this study is as follows. First, the sitting badminton program has resulted in increases in the physically challenged women’s body fat percentages and quantities. Second, the program has had a positive influence on the participants’ resilience quotients, emotional discipline, impulse control, analytical skills, commonication skills, appreciative qualities, self-optimism and life satisfaction. Hence, the 12-week sitting badminton program has enabled the physically challenged women participants to have more active and positive attitudes toward life. This has led to a conclusion that the program brings very positive results, such as enhancing the participants’ resistance to circumstance changes and stress as well as improving their physical functions and, especially resilience quotients.