Exercise Counseling services provided by Sunflower Wellness help to establish the foundation of your exercise program as you deal with recovery from cancer.
Our Exercise Counselors are certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) as Certified Cancer Exercise Trainers (CET). This special designation gives us the skill to adapt many forms of exercise to meet the needs of people living with cancer.
In an Exercise Counseling session you will discuss the following kinds of information with the counselor:
Your health history, including family health
Your cancer diagnosis and treatments
Current health concerns and issues
Your background in exercise and movement
Your current goals for exercise
Your resources for exercising, such as a gym membership
Your living and working locations
Any limitations or restrictions for exercising
With this information, the Exercise Counselor will design a program of exercise to help you reach your goals. Your program might consist of exercise at a gym or health club and could include aerobic exercise, weight (or resistance) training, yoga, Pilates, swimming, or rowing. Your program could involve exercise in the privacy of your home, even movement in bed. Whatever location works best for you is where we try to design a program that feels good and that you can stick with.
We also try to contact you within about two weeks of your Exercise Counseling session to see if you've been able to start or continue exercising, and to offer encouragement. We have designed a Buddy Program to help you find someone near you who also wants to exercise with ongoing encouragement from another person.
To sign up for an Exercise Counseling session, please click here.
Our efforts to provide Exercise Counseling to people living with cancer have led us to creating Exercise Counseling programs at: