About Exercise
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
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4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
The benefits of exercise pre and post cancer are discussed by Deborah James, Lauren Mahon and Steve Bland. Project leader Zoe Merchant and personal trainer Kirsty Rowlinson talk about ‘Prehab4Cancer’ - a programme in Greater Manchester aimed to prepare cancer patients going into treatment. Cancer rehabilitation specialist and founder of MOVE charity Gemma Hillier-Moses talks about her use of exercise in the recovery process. Oncologist and tri-athlete Lucy Gossage, who has 12 Ironman wins, shares her experiences and gives her much needed triathlon tips to the team.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm actually like with the boys and the sports teams and stuff. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, she had this one long time boy friend and then I'm not a slut. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Ume in the Big Z. The Deborah James better known to some as Bale Babe. |
| 0:27.0 | Woo and me Laura Mann aka Girlverse Cancer. Hello and we're joined again today by our favorite Steve |
| 0:33.5 | Bland also known as Steve Bland. Hello. We are all friends, Debenaya bloggers and we all have |
| 0:40.3 | one thing in common. We have a relationship with Cancer. We want to tell you about the highs as |
| 0:44.6 | well as the lows. You can get in touch with us to suggest future topics and let us know your |
| 0:48.9 | experiences by using the hashtag Ume Big Z across all forms of social media. So to start the |
| 0:54.6 | series and see as it's January we're going to talk about exercise. We're going to be speaking |
| 0:59.7 | to experts in pre and post cancer treatment and explore how even a little exercise can make |
| 1:04.6 | a big difference. But before we get going as always it's been New Year, it's been Christmas. |
| 1:10.4 | Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. We're still saying that. I'm not like a |
| 1:14.9 | humble or anything but it is quite a way after New Year. It's not unlucky. I'm not saying this |
| 1:19.8 | unlucky but it's just a long way after New Year. When do you stop saying it? Well, when you |
| 1:23.7 | stop seeing people for the first time after New Year. What if you don't see someone for like |
| 1:27.0 | three years? Happy New Year. I'm not saying it Call it E. We're not saying it back in a |
| 1:30.7 | minute. Anyway, we're not saying that. But I think Deben, do you want to talk about your |
| 1:36.0 | situation? Because you've had a bit of a shocker. It's a whole podcast in itself. The last |
| 1:41.3 | podcast that we recorded in bed together. We did. It was a bit of a top up for a Christmas |
| 1:46.6 | day wasn't it? And I was talking about how I just started a new treatment and how my |
| 1:51.0 | cancer had not returned. It never went away. My cancer is now in my liver. That's really |
| 1:56.6 | common for bowel cancer. And I had just started about three days before a sports personality |
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