How exercise helps with Diabetes

Diabetes can be a very frustrating and difficult condition to manage in your daily life and without forward planning can soon become dangerous. By introduction regular exercise into your life diabetes can be brought under control to a significant extent.

How exercise improves your diabetes

1. Insulin Sensitivity. After a good solid workout or cardio session, the cells in your body become more sensitive to insulin and therefore the uptake of glucose is improved.

2. Muscle activity.During exercise your muscle will be contracting and relaxing. It is this activity of the muscles that increase the uptake of glucose to use it for energy and reduces the need for the pancreas to produce insulin.

3. Absorption. Physical activity improves the absorption rate of glucose into the muscle tissue to be use as energy.

Amount of Exercise

Your body’s uptake of glucose will vary depending on the amount of time that you exercise for and the consistency of exercise during any given week. Once you’ve been for a gym workout the effects the exercise on insulin sensitivity and glucose levels can last up to 24 hours.

Muscles

Muscles use glucose better than fat does. Building and using muscle through physical activity can help prevent high blood glucose. If your body doesn’t make enough insulin, or if the insulin doesn’t work the way it should, the body’s cells don’t use glucose. Your blood glucose levels then get too high, causing diabetes.

Diabetes doesn’t have to control your life, by joining a gym and making regular exercise apart of your daily life, you can very quickly get in control of your diabetes and make it the least of your worries.

At Anytime Fitness Mandurah, we have all the knowledge and information you need to start your new gym life and improve your overall health and fitness.