Sami Mansfield

Many commonly prescribed medications can have a significant impact on your clients’ responses to exercise. This article explores four medication categories that may be overlooked but are crucial to understand and require ongoing evaluation due to potential side effects that can impact overall health. Armed with this knowledge, you will be well-equipped to help your clients exercise safely and effectively while pursuing their health and wellness goals.

For those who have at least one medically managed chronic condition, fitness assessments may not be the most effective way to keep them motivated enough to stick with their programs. In this article, you’ll learn how you can more effectively work with individuals who have one or more chronic conditions, as well as some simple but powerful assessments you can use to track progress and empower your clients to keep moving forward.

Learn about the multifaceted nature of mental health, what the research says about how exercise can impact mental health, and how to talk to your clients about this important topic without veering outside your scope of practice as a health and exercise professional.

This article offers a broad overview of the latest nutrition guidelines for cancer survivors. Learn how you can better serve your clients by understanding how to guide them in making nutrition choices that can bolster their health, whether they are trying to prevent cancer, enhance their health during treatment or reduce their chances of recurrence.

As a health and exercise professional, you understand the impact of exercise and nutrition on both overall health and individual diseases, including diabetes, but could our recommendations be too broad for many clients to consistently follow? This article offers practical tactics and under-utilized strategies for helping individuals prevent and manage diabetes.

This article offers a broad overview of the latest nutrition guidelines for cancer survivors. Learn how you can better serve your clients by understanding how to guide them in making nutrition choices that can bolster their health, whether they are trying to prevent cancer, enhance their health during treatment or reduce their chances of recurrence.

Are you interested in increasing your connection to the healthcare space as a community partner but haven’t yet figured out how to break into this space? When working with medical providers, showing your value or benefit is the secret to earning referrals. Learn how you can use the BENEFIT template to guide your way to success.

As is the case with so many areas of health and wellness, ongoing research into the causes and treatment of lymphedema, a common side-effect of cancer treatments, brings new insight and understanding, often rendering what were previously standard recommendations as obsolete or outdated. This article includes the most up-to-date, evidence-based information on lymphedema to help you and your clients make appropriate choices related to physical and lifestyle activities and exercise programming. 

This article examines the interconnectedness of cancer and obesity, and how health and exercise professionals can play a key role in helping clients make lasting lifestyle changes that reduce their risk of cancer. Also included are six recommendations that can help guide your programming for clients who have received a cancer diagnosis.

Hearing the words, you have cancer, forces someone to pivot in a way that is not unlike what most of us have had to do this year. Here are six lessons learned from cancer survivors that can help us strengthen our resilience muscles when life turns upside down.

Cancer and its treatments can take a severe toll on the body, leaving people fatigued and unmotivated to continue their exercise programs. This, in turn, often leads to weight gain and a loss of both fitness and lean muscle mass. As a health and exercise professional, learn how you can help survivors maintain lean muscle mass and a healthy weight in their fight against cancer.

What happens when the lines between health, wellness and fitness become blurred and your client, who is in the best shape of his or her adult life, is suddenly diagnosed with cancer? Learn how you can optimally support your client during this challenging time, from diagnosis and treatment through recovery, and how exercise can help your client every step of the way.

As a health and exercise professional, you are on the front lines for the cancer survivor population. This article covers basic recommendations for working with cancer survivors and the research supporting the benefits of exercise for prevention, pre-habilitation and treatment, and describes a framework for assessing clients and creating programs that address their individual needs.