Fighting Stage 4

Fighting stage 4 prostate cancer

Category: fitness

  • “Above average” – Prostate Cancer v Squash

    My brother and I taught ourselves squash during university holidays — a slightly healthier form of brotherly bonding than our usual diet of computer games and Games Workshop. Now, it’s in my plan to get “Above Average” to help me fight my stage 4 Prostate Cancer. Squash was about as “cool” as Games Workshop in…

  • “Above average” – Prostate Cancer v Running

    As part of my series to use exercise to control my prostate cancer (Can I get “above average” with Prostate Cancer?) one of my key goals is to improve my running. I’ve never had a great relationship with running. I did the Paris Marathon in 2011 in an attempt to see if I could get…

  • “Above Average” – Prostate Cancer v Resistance training

    This is the big one – the core goal. Everything else is icing on the cake, or trying to get fun at the same time as fitness. Long-term hormone therapy means my muscles will waste away, and I’ll gain fat even more easily than before (and that was already remarkably easy for me). Okay, there’s…

  • “Above average” – Prostate Cancer v Cycling

    I love cycling, there is a sense of freedom and childlike exhilaration from riding your bike, although I am a real coward on the downhills. So cycling was always going to be part of my fitness arsenal in the fight against cancer. Let me start first though, with a debunking. After being diagnosed with my…