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DAVID A. MARGILETH: On multiple occasions, I have shared with you the importance of exercise,
not only before but during and after the treatment for breast cancer.
And so I am often asked by my patients, “Gee Dr. Harness, do you have any suggestions about
how I go about exercise and what’s the proper approach?
I don’t want to hurt myself in the process.”
Well clearly, depending on what stage you are at in the treatment of your breast cancer,
you need to be working with your breast cancer specialist, perhaps with people in the physical
medicine department at the hospital that you are working with, etc.
So you do need guidance locally.
But I want to offer a link here at BreastCancerAnswers.com of a program that I have had the opportunity
to review from a very credible source that I’d like to recommend and will provide the
link to this doctor’s site that gives you a really lovely overview of how to approach
exercise, how to sustain exercise, and how much exercise you should be doing.
I am pleased to provide a link to Dr. Moshe Frenkel.
He is an MD.
He is a board-certified family physician who actually founded the first integrative medicine
clinic at the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas.
He has recently returned, as I understand, back to Israel but he has granted BreastCancerAnswers.com
permission to link to his overview.
Now, I have got the overview here and I don’t want to go through it in great detail
but I just want to sort of highlight it a little bit.
Number one recommendation is that you choose something that you enjoy.
How about dancing?
How about walking?
How about getting outdoors?
What is it that you like?
The pure movement and doing it on a sustained basis is what’s really important.
Next step is to start slow, particularly if you are recovering from your surgery or
just getting over your chemotherapy, or you are just getting over your radiation therapy,
you want to start slow.
The hard part is keeping it going.
One of the things in talking to exercise coaches through the years, I think an important
factor here is to work with somebody.
Create a body of power, somebody like this to work with you and help you and keep you
going because hey, let’s face it, we all want to stop at times, no matter how committed
we are to exercise, but the bottom line is start slow.
Break it up and do fun things, but remember you are not going to do this on a sustained
basis.
Think of your activities and monitor them in some way.
Probably a good analogy here is like climbing a mountain.
You are not going to climb into the top of the mountain in one day.
You are going to lay out steps along the way.
Also, figure out ways how to reward yourself as you are making progress along a sustainable
life-changing health exercise program for you.
And also, don’t beat yourself up if you miss a couple of sessions for whatever the
reasons.
And then, of course, the bottom line out of this is ‘Gee, how long should I exercise
for?’
So on this wonderful outline, the link that we have given you, Dr. Frenkel has got guidelines
about, as an example, walking.
Try and find that average pace of about 3 point miles per hour and during an average
week, try and get in 150 minutes.
And then going down jogging and swimming and dancing.
He goes through all of these different kinds of fun exercises and gives you some guidelines.
So, here I think is a good link to something.
I have reviewed it.
It’s coming from a very credible source.
As one of the famous companies says – ‘Just do it’.
Hi, I am Dr. Jay Harness and I want to share
with you important information that I believe that every newly diagnosed patient with breast
cancer needs to know.
I am a breast cancer survivor.
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