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In another large, phase 3 clinical trial funded by Movember, Chan and epidemiologists Stacey Kenfield and Lorelei Mucci, with principal investigators Rob Newton and Fred Saad are studying high-intensity exercise in men with metastatic prostate cancer at more than a dozen sites worldwide. “It’s a two-year, tailored intervention, with both strength and aerobic components,” to see if exercise can help men with metastatic prostate cancer live longer and better. What else lowers stress? Meditation. Stress may play a role in the growth of prostate cancer, so lowering stress is a strategy worth pursuing.
I have been doing HIIT training on my recumbent bike for the last year , it has been shown to give one the same effect as an hour of walking and it takes me 10- 15 minutes , I shoot for 3 times a week sometimes more. Coco and I also walk for an hour several times a week.
My routine: Ride at medium resistance for 2 minutes then kick it up to max resistance for 30-35 seconds , (you should be breathing hard and feel a burn in your legs) repeat 3-5 times.
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Loving this post and with your ambition you are real role model. I’m also exercising daily, running, weightlifting and gym, meditating once a day, too. I was diagnosed with a PSA of 2222 seven years ago, my last PSMA scan is clean. So our program seems to work. Let’s go on!
Agree Scout! Sometimes we need reminders and for me there is an ebb and flow to my workout activity. And the ebb is 100% mindset related by letting that inner voice come up with reasons not to workout that day. The good news is that I'm aware of it and can generally fight through. Heading out for 6 - 8 weeks on the Appalachian Trail in July to reconnect with nature and that is my motivator now.
Throughout my 10+ years with this insidious disease I have maintained a consistent exercise and lifestyle routine. I go to the gym most days, indoor bike for 45-60 minutes, weights and swim, 20 -30 laps in the 50 meter pool.
Other days I ride my bike outside, 25-50 miles.
We take vacations to Colorado so I ski and hike.
Lots of yard work, I recently finished putting down five cubic yards of mulch.
My medical team says the things I can do to "manage" my PCa:
Exercise
Manage stress.
Reasonable diet.
What role has all that played in these 10+years, I don't have any correlation I can stand behind but intuitively, I'm going to say positive..my medical team, radiologist, oncologist, cardiologist and primary care, all say it is a factor. I'll defer to their training, education and experience.
Running and biking are great. High intensity intervals are great too, many different methods. Mine is more measured, using a monitor but I know not everyone wants or feels the need for one. I just like something more specific than ‘feeling burn and breathing hard’ so I can deliberately increase my VO2 max, or at the least slow its decline.
This is my problem with privileged aging-There is too much maintenance. The lifting, the long slow cardio, the HIIT, the mobility and balance work, mediation, rehabbing injuries, yoga, travel, hygiene, proper sleep, doctor appointments, support meetings, house cleaning, yard and garden work, performing and practicing music, helping friends , maintaining a good marriage, cooking, shopping etc etc.
And I still work some too. To be able to do all this while not dying of metastatic disease and being otherwise healthy brings nothing but gratitude, but when I want to shave something off, the HIIT is first to go. Why? Because it sucks! It’s hard! But nothing is more important , and it takes less time than almost anything else.
So lately I’ve committed to slacking on something else instead if I must.
As you may guess I like to keep it simple, have a heart rate monitor that I do not use , once I understood how exercise effected it I did not really need it. Better to be essentially right than precisely wrong.
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