Sami Mansfield: The most important recommendation on exercise for individuals going cancer treatment

Sami Mansfield shared a post on LinkedIn by Jackson Fyfe, Lecturer at Deakin University, adding:

“This is the most important recommendation on exercise especially for our individuals who are going through treatment for cancer.

While we have important recommendations reinforcing the benefits of exercise oncology during treatment and at any time point. A goal of reducing inactivity is a much more important and impactful piece of this puzzle especially when someone is new or returning to exercise along with a life altering diagnosis.

• Keep it simple.
• Make it accessible.
• Reinforce small actions.”

Quoting Jackson Fyfe’s post:

“With exercise, most people worry about:

• How heavy or how fast
• Following the ‘ideal’ program
• The best time of day to exercise
• Whether to do cardio or weights
• Optimising warm-ups or recovery
• Needing to feel tired and sore after workouts
• Missing the ‘anabolic window’ for protein intake

But what really matters for most people is:

• Doing any form of activity consistently
• Showing up even when you don’t feel like it
• Then rinse and repeat – for a long time.”

Sources: Sami Mansfield/LinkedIn and Jackson Fyfe/LinkedIn

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Sami (Papacek) Mansfield is the founder of Cancer Wellness for Life. She’s been a certified cancer exercise specialist since 2003 and has dedicated her career to implementing evidence-based lifestyle education, resources and tools into cancer care for both the patients and the providers.

She is also a Chair of Cancer Member Interest Group, at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Breast Cancer Taskforce Co-Chair at Colorado Cancer Coalition.