The new Cancer Exercise app is a first mobile exercise app for iOS specifically for people living with or beyond cancer. Developed by Anna L. Schwartz, PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN, who is a world-renowned pioneer in cancer and physical activity exercise oncology. Schwartz designed the app to bring customized exercise to cancer survivors to improve their quality of life.
Providing individual exercise prescriptions, the Cancer Exercise mobile app makes exercise available to cancer survivors of all ages, level of physical condition, types and stages of cancer, types of treatment and is even appropriate for people who are many years beyond treatment. Whether you are new to fitness, or a hard-core exerciser, the Cancer Exercise mobile app guides you through every step of exercise with the goal to make exercise part of your daily life. The Cancer Exercise app is free and donations are accepted.
What is also unique about the Cancer Exercise mobile app is that the workout program is based on scientifically sound guidelines for cancer survivors following the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). It is the long-awaited and first app designed specifically for cancer survivors that provides a custom exercise plan.
Living with or beyond cancer? This exercise program helps individuals make a positive change in their life. The step-by-step program guides participants to become more active leading to less fatigue, more energy and improved physical and emotional health. Well-designed re-search studies demonstrate the enormous benefits of exercise for people living with and beyond cancer.
Cancer Exercise is easy to download and use. Users complete a quick cancer and exercise history, rate their fatigue, complete two quick test and then begin an individualized, custom aerobic and resistance exercise program. The Cancer Exercise mobile app then dynamically adapts to the participant's current physical state. Please use and share the free Cancer Exercise app from one of the world's experts by recommending it friends and colleagues.