Offsite: LIVESTRONG: Lecture- Exercise Guidance from Weights to Water
Location:
451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203 (C-building 4th Floor-Red Door)
Sue Brown, facilitator of the Livestrong Program at McBurney and Chinatown YMCAs will review the research from both the Science Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, which focuses specifically on aquatic exercise. She will also discuss the benefits of general physical activities, using weights, and water exercise, and how they may improve the quality of life for cancer survivors. In addition, safeguards regarding water exercise during specific types of cancer treatment will be explained.