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LIVESTRONG at the Hockomock YMCA

New classes are set to begin on Oct. 26 at the Invensys Foxboro Branch of the Hockomock Area YMCA.

LIVESTRONG at the YMCA is a twelve-week small group program designed for adult cancer survivors who have become de-conditioned or chronically fatigued from their treatment and/or disease. The program is offered without cost to the participants. Our goal is to help patients build muscle mass and muscle strength, increase flexibility and endurance, and improve functional ability.

Certified Hockomock Area YMCA health and wellness instructors give personal individualized instruction to the participants. The instructors are trained in the elements of cancer, post rehab exercise, nutrition, and supportive cancer care.

This program fulfills the important need of the increasing number of cancer survivors who find themselves in the transitional period between completing their cancer treatment and the shift to feeling physically and emotionally strong enough to attempt to return to their normal life. The fact that the program is outside a medical facility and integrated into the community serves to emphasize that LIVESTRONG at the YMCA is about health, not about disease. The positive and enthusiastic feedback that we receive from individuals who have gone through the LIVESTRONG at the YMCA program convinces us that this is a significant community program that fills an important, and previously unaddressed, need of cancer patients and survivors.

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A survivor is defined from the point of cancer diagnosis through the balance of his/her life.  Are you a cancer survivor or know someone who is?  Please contact your local Hockomock Area YMCA branch to get involved.

New Classes:

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Invensys Foxboro branch: Wednesday and Friday, 11-12:30pm beginning on Oct. 26.

North Attleboro branch: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30-12:00pm beginning on Oct. 11. Tuesday and Thursday 5:45-7:15 pm beginning on Nov. 8.

Bernon Family Franklin branch: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30-12 pm beginning Oct. 18. Monday and Thursday 6-7:30 pm beginning November 7th

Contact: Shannon West, 508.772.1302, shannonw@hockymca.org.


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