Friday, October 28, 2011

Fitness Schedules Benefit Cancer Survivors



Cancer survivors are not at the end of their battle once they go into remission. Treatment for cancer patients often leaves the person feeling depleted, drained, and at an absolute loss as what to do next. Lack of motivation is extremely common in all types of cancer patients and survivors.

Experts have discovered and claimed that creating a regular exercise and fitness schedule each week can help cancer survivors to regain their lives and to feel in control again. Energy levels are boosted and feelings of self-confidence are redeveloped and established once again with the implementation of a consistent fitness routine.

The National Cancer Institute writes about how exercise that is consistent in routine can help to greatly improve the quality of life for cancer patients. Whether a person has had mesothelioma, breast cancer, prostate cancer, or any other common form of cancer, exercise can help to reverse the effects that treatment has had on the patient.

Cancer treatment often leaves a person feeling unable to perform typical daily chores. Although it may seem difficult at first to find the motivation to begin an exercise regimen, once a person gets started with one, the positive results are seen almost immediately. Endorphins are released in the blood stream and these create higher energy levels in the person. Muscles are built back up after long periods of not being used very much. Mental and physical stimulation begins to occur within a cancer survivor when he or she begins to embrace a fitness schedule on a regular basis.

Long-term, healthy benefits result from incorporating exercise into almost anyone’s normal weekly schedule. Cancer patients and survivors can receive even greater benefits as exercise provides a healthy outlet to reduce the anxiety and stress that has accumulated from dealing with the various aspects of having cancer. Social activity, combined with exercise, can increase a positive outlook and help a person to return more quickly to his or her old and familiar lifestyle with a new outlook on life.


This post was contributed by David Haas. For more information please visit

http://www.mesothelioma.com/blog/

Thank you David!

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