Exercise load monitoring: integrated approaches to advance the individualisation of exercise oncology.
BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med
; 7(3): e001134, 2021.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1379623
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.
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Prognostic study
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BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med
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2021
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Bmjsem-2021-001134
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