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Breaking Boundaries Between Resistance and Aerobic Training in Cancer Survivors

Exercise prescription for cancer surviviors has been guided by a binary framework that separates resistance training (RT) and aerobic training (AT). However, emerging evidence increasingly challenges this separation. In oncology settings, there are many that challenges highlight the need for a…

About this course

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, Volume 54 • Number 3 • July 2026 | DOI: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000387

What you will learn

  • Describe the limitations of categorizing exercise solely as resistance or aerobic training in cancer survivorship and rehabilitation
  • Explain how key exercise stimuli—including mechanical load, cardiovascular intensity, metabolic stress, recovery density, and contraction velocity—drive physiological adaptations across an exercise continuum
  • Discuss how the exercise continuum framework can support individualized, efficient, and precision-based exercise prescriptions for cancer survivors and oncology rehabilitation patients

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