The VPT Program
From Assessment to Training, here is our process.OUR ROADMAP
THE CLIENT
Your program starts with a scheduled consultation with your program lead after you have filled out a series of forms such as a PAR-Q+ and a Health History Form. If you are cleared for exercise then you will be scheduled for your online Functional Movement & Aerobic Assessement.
THE SETTING
THE COACHING
OUR VEHICLE
VIRTUAL TRAINING
Web based lifestyle intervention or “virtual training” can encourage adherence along with the involvement of family members, providers and a great coach that understands your needs and the appropriate exercise prescription.
PERIODIZATION
Training periodization is a carefully programmed pattern of change in training variables. Your body adapts to exercise quickly so adjustments need to be made in the short and long term to guarantee continued adaptation to exercise.
PROGRESSION
You will start with an initial Exercise Prescription, which will also have a progression calendar built into it to ensure that you increase intensity, difficulty, complexity or all of the above over time to get the best results out of your program.THE MOVING PARTS
RESISTANCE TRAINING
Resistance training reduces disability in PCS on ADT and has become a highly recommended part of your treatment plan.
IMPACT TRAINING
Impact training is an important component to the program as it has proven to increase the effectiveness of resistance training alone in increasing BMD.
Aerobic Exercise
Every journey starts with a single step. Depending on your prescription, aerobic exercise needs to be implemented in a strategic way into your program.
Exercise Prescription
“Research shows that the right prescription can provide a significant benefit to you during your treatment.
THE RIGHT APPROACH
Your doctor knows best. Please consult your doctor and provide us with the best guidance to get you started. We don’t want to discourage you but we do want to give you a safe and effective program. Knowing if you have any comorbidities and what they are is important for prioritizing the mode of exercise you will perform and getting that critical clearance from your doctor to perform exercise is always a necessary means to getting started. What is good to know is that there aren’t any studies to our knowledge that show a detrimental effect of exercise on Cancer Patients. The dosage of exercise should be tailored to individual clients and address issues like fatigue, functional movement and time management and your doctor’s insight can help us on this. But what we do know in most cases is that exercise preserves physical function in prostate cancer patients while improving quality of life. Multi modal, modular exercise prescription adjusted depending on the metastases siSignificant improvement in physical functioning based on an appropriate exercise prescription. Supervised exercise improves overall survival in Prostate Cancer Patients.
The exercise prescription is complex. It is tailored to ameliorate issues causing greatest morbidity and mortality. It is mixed mode with emphasis depending on capacity and priorities. Periodized within the week, month and quarter. Aerobic exercise is moderate and continuous and resistance is High Intensity Interval Training. Training is Autoregulated based on client’s energy level and capacity on the training day. Nutritional support improves treatement.
WHAT TO EXPECT
If you have a computer and a decent internet connection, that is all you really need.
Simple & Effective
1. Private Appointments
Meet your trainer in an interactive online appointment with only you and your personal trainer.
2. Consistant
Your Virtual Trainer can record their instruction for you to repeat in between live sessions.
3. Effective
Supervised physical fitness programs have shown to be more effective than self directed programs.
Virtual Personal Training is growing into a huge industry in the next year. In previous years, poor internet connections and lack of understanding how to log into online meetings made progress slow. Now that virtual appointments have become commonplace, people are better versed at how to log into an online appointment.
Exercise is being recognized as an important factor in improving quality of life as well as improving treatment efficacy and overall outcome of cancer treatment. We take that very seriously at The Virtual Personal Trainer and make sure that we are up-to-date on all new research regarding this area of cancer treatment.
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