Fresh Start for Cancer Prehab & Survivorship
Safe, personalised exercise to help maintain or rebuild strength, fitness and confidence
Supporting what your body can do
Cancer treatment can change how your body feels and performs.
Fatigue, loss of strength, reduced fitness, pain and changes in balance or confidence can all make exercise feel very different from how it did before.
But movement can still have an important place during and after treatment.
Fresh Start for Cancer Prehab & Survivorship provides a carefully structured exercise programme built around your individual capacity, symptoms and stage of treatment or recovery.
The objective is not to push through at all costs. It is to help you move, strengthen and rebuild at a level that works for you.
Who is the programme for?
Fresh Start can support adults preparing for, undergoing or recovering from cancer treatment who are experiencing fatigue, reduced strength or physical deconditioning.
It may be suitable if you:
Want to maintain as much strength and fitness as possible around treatment
Feel significantly less active than you were before your diagnosis
Are experiencing cancer-related fatigue
Want support rebuilding physical capacity following treatment
Feel uncertain about which forms of exercise are safe or appropriate
Want a structured programme that can adapt as your symptoms change
Understanding where you are now
Before training begins, we consider:
Cancer type, stage and treatment history
Current symptoms, including fatigue and pain
Neuropathy or balance difficulties
Strength and functional capacity
Aerobic fitness through appropriate submaximal testing
Fatigue and quality-of-life measures
Relevant medical clearance and contraindications
Together, these provide a starting point for a programme built around what your body needs now.
Measuring progress beyond the scales
The outcomes that matter during cancer recovery are not always conventional fitness metrics. Fresh Start can track:
Cancer-related fatigue
Quality of life
Strength
Functional capacity
Aerobic fitness
Confidence
Mood
General activity levels
At week 12, key measures are reassessed to show where your capacity has changed and help guide what comes next.
What your 12 weeks looks like
Training uses a flexible mixture of aerobic exercise, resistance work, mobility and flexibility.
Aerobic exercise is progressively developed towards an appropriate weekly volume, while strength training targets the major muscle groups two to three times per week where tolerated. Your programme may change according to your treatment schedule and how you are feeling.
Simple fatigue scales and symptom check-ins allow training intensity and volume to be adjusted from session to session. On days when your capacity is greater, the programme can progress. When fatigue or treatment effects are more significant, the plan can respond. That adaptability is part of the programme, not a setback.
Working within the bigger picture
Fresh Start is designed to complement appropriate medical and oncology care.
Where there is severe or worsening fatigue, new or unexplained pain, neurological changes, functional decline, signs of infection or treatment complications, or an adverse response such as chest pain, severe breathlessness or fainting, medical or oncology review should take priority.
Why exercise matters
A combination of aerobic and resistance exercise can help support physical function, strength and quality of life during and after cancer treatment, and can play an important role in managing cancer-related fatigue.
But there is no single correct programme for everyone.
Treatment type, symptoms, fatigue and physical capacity can vary significantly from person to person and even from one week to another.
That is why Fresh Start prioritises individualisation and ongoing adjustment.
Move forward with support
Your relationship with exercise may look different during or after cancer treatment. Different does not have to mean finished. With the right assessment, sensible progression and a programme that responds to how you are actually feeling, exercise can become a positive part of maintaining and rebuilding your physical capacity.
Register your interest in Fresh Start for Cancer Prehab & Survivorship and speak to the Joint Dynamics team about whether the programme is appropriate for you.
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