{"id":21735,"date":"2025-04-15T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21735\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:27:15","slug":"mandurah-mens-group-are-exercising-to-fight-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21735\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandurah men\u2019s group are exercising to fight prostate cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A group of Mandurah men are meeting twice a week to workout and ward off the mental and physical side effects in their fight against prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Meeting at Rushton Park\u2019s Peel Thunder gymnasium on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9.30am, the group is called PROST! (German word for cheers) and exercises under a professional evidence-based program with the mantra Muscle, Mate-ship and Mood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1d4ad511de7ce5495332d007d31e3150f443849a.jpg\" alt=\"The group is guided under the professional eye of exercise physiologist Rachel Halleen.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconThe group is guided under the professional eye of exercise physiologist Rachel Halleen. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">4 Life exercise physiologist Rachel Halleen guides the group through cycling, rowing, weights and particularly concentrates on pelvic floor exercises to assist their post-operative incontinence.<\/p>\n<p>Your local paper, whenever you want it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThese exercises are proving to be so important for men facing, experiencing or recovering from prostate cancer surgery or radiology and hormone therapy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia states prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the country and the second most common cause of death from cancer in Australian men, with nearly 72 men being diagnosed every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThis is a big message for men and their wives or partners,\u201d Ms Halleen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Mandurah is the latest PROST! gymnasium group adding to others in Fremantle, Joondalup, Leederville and the University of Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/9dd0a6e0ff0cb8b74337bf116c5ca17e32aaa265.jpg\" alt=\"The group goes to Groundswell cafe for their bi-weekly coffee catch-ups after their exercise.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconThe group goes to Groundswell cafe for their bi-weekly coffee catch-ups after their exercise. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The mateship and mood components of the group come from the hour-long coffee and cake session following the exercise where the men discuss all aspects of their diagnosis and develop long-term friendships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">PROST! support group leader Bill van Didden said the group not only helped his fitness level improve but also helped him mentally deal with the issues prostate cancer brings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/community-news\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cng-newsletter.c607400c.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"Subscribe to our newsletter\" width=\"310\" height=\"70\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of camaraderie among members because we\u2019re all in the same boat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tqt8t0-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cIt\u2019s an unfortunate commonality among us but it brings great bonding and gives us strength.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of Mandurah men are meeting twice a week to workout and ward off the mental and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[14018,1630,105,14019,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-21735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-community-news","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mandurah-times","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114341507742270437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}