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Exercise load monitoring: integrated approaches to advance the individualisation of exercise oncology
- Source :
- BMJ Open Sport — Exercise Medicine, BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol 7, Iss 3 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BMJ Publishing Group, 2021.
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Abstract
- Whether slowing disease progression or combatting the ills of advancing age, the extensive utility of exercise training has contributed to the outright declaration by the American College of Sports Medicine that ‘exercise is medicine’. Consistent with general framework of adaptation, the advantages of exercise training are indiscriminate—benefitting even the most susceptible clinical populations. Still, the benefit of exercise training presupposes healthy adaptation wherein progressive overload matches sufficient recovery. Indeed, a difference exists between healthy adaptation and non-functional over-reaching (ie, when internal/external load exceeds recovery capacity)—a difference that may be blurred by cancer treatment and/or comorbidity. Recent advances in smartwatches make them ideally suited to non-invasively monitor the physiological stresses to exercise training. Resolving whether individuals are successfully adapting to exercise training via load monitoring bears clinical and practical relevance. While behaviour-change research aims to identify positive constructs of exercise adherence, further attention is needed to uncover how to optimise exercise prescription among cancer populations. Herein, we briefly discuss the constituents of exercise load monitoring, present examples of internal and external load and consider how such practices can be applied to cancer populations.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Medicine (General)
obesity
Sports medicine
business.industry
Disease progression
aging
physical activity
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Exercise adherence
medicine.disease
Comorbidity
Cancer treatment
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
R5-920
Viewpoint
medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
fatigue
business
Adaptation (computer science)
Exercise prescription
performance
Progressive overload
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20557647
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ Open Sport — Exercise Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....df8739198b39ac1ce0c3c926e78719d3