Get Your Oomph Back - Carolyn Garritt

Get Your Oomph Back

A guide to exercise after a cancer diagnosis

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Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2021
Hammersmith Health Books (Verlag)
978-1-78161-211-8 (ISBN)
22,40 inkl. MwSt
If you have had a cancer diagnosis you will probably have been told that exercise is beneficial at all stages, but not how to do this, what is safe and what is appropriate for you. Cancer rehab personal trainer Carolyn Garritt provides a practical, illustrated guide based on many years' experience and her work with Maggie's Cancer Support.
There is extremely compelling evidence to suggest that if people are physically active before, during and after cancer treatment, their outcomes are likely to be better. Their risk of recurrence (and death) is lower and their ability to deal with the myriad side effects is improved significantly. Increasingly people with cancer understand this but they are often unsure of what exercise would be best, what is safest, what would be most effective and what to avoid. This book offers very practical, targeted information to enable people to exercise in whatever way they feel ready for. It provides guidance on effective and appropriate exercise for anybody who has received a diagnosis of cancer, including those receiving active treatment and those living with incurable cancer of all types, with the emphasis on the proven benefits of exercise and activity.

Carolyn Garritt MSc (Public Health and Health Promotion) is a cancer rehabilitation personal trainer and Exercise Lead for the West London Maggie's Cancer Support Centre. She has been working in this relatively new field for more than seven years and is a qualified personal trainer and instructor in running, boxing, sports conditioning, chair-based exercise and Nordic walking. She has trained hundreds of people recovering from or living with cancer. She also has personal experience as a cancer patient and as a carer for family.

Section 1 Why: Reasons why exercising can help, with the latest evidence for each.; Cancer-related fatigue; Managing mental health, depression and anxiety. Ray's story; The effects of sitting down; The effect of losing muscular strength during treatment; Bone health, osteopenia and osteoporosis. Jane's story; Hormones, cancer, and exercise; Section 2 The different phases: Prehab. How Hima got fit for surgery and Paul coped with watchful waiting; Exercising during treatment - what's do-able; After treatment when the circus leaves town. Side effects and how to adapt your exercise; Lymphoedema; Breathlessness. How to learn to climb stairs comfortably; Pelvic floor for men and women. Adapting to exercise with an 'ostomy. Renate's story; Exercising while 'living with cancer'. My dad's story; Palliative. Roger's story; My story - moving through mastectomy; Section 3 How: How to start. How to find the time, energy and motivation. Marie's story. Thoughts for the reluctant and the self-conscious. Alison's story; Doing what you love. My croquet champ's story; Nordic walking - perfect exercise; High Intensity Interval Training. How to be a HIIT is your own living room; Running, Couch to 5k, 5k Your Way, interval running and parkrun; The joy of Zumba; Relaxation; Upper body strength training after breast cancer; Training after prostate cancer. Tales from the men's group; Section 4 Sample sessions to do at home

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 200 black & white line drawings
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 171 x 221 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Onkologie
ISBN-10 1-78161-211-0 / 1781612110
ISBN-13 978-1-78161-211-8 / 9781781612118
Zustand Neuware
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