The organization he put together came up with a program in cooperation with some of the YMCA around the United States.
They studied what happens to people while they are getting diagnosed and treated for cancer. They recognized that we slow down and move less. And dealing with treatments and our bodies reactions to those treatments is a serious challenge.
So they took a general approach and suggest a basic approach:
Move a bit - Do something to raise your heart rate - Pick some cardio stimulating activity.
Exert yourself - Do something that makes your muscles work a bit - Lift or Pull or Push something
Stretch Out - Just reach out and see what it feels like to let your body explore its complete range of movement - Just try to touch the sky and just try to touch your toes!
They did it in a good way -- and they do not charge us for participating. We can join a 12 week course - meeting twice a week - with a written record of our starting levels to compare to what we reach in three months.
And the people are really upbeat, so it makes it almost fun to be there. {maybe if I was already fit it would be fun, but I am not so it was actually kind of like hard work}
I'll be going to the twice weekly meetings. Since I still do not drive everywhere, I will have work that out with someone. But it will certainly help me get back to my regular life -- of that I am sure.
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