It is good to increase Diabetes exercise in your daily activity lower your blood-glucose level, and you feel pleasant physical and mental well being.
Diabetes exercise - Physical Activity
Exercise plays an important part in treating and preventing diabetes. When you care for your diabetes with physical activity, diet management, and proper medication, you will feel difference. In addition, it reduces your risk for problems with your kidneys, eyes, nerves, feet & legs and teeth. You will also lower your risk for a heart attack or a stroke.
Benefits of Diabetes exercise - physical activity
- lower your blood-glucose & blood pressure
- lower your bad cholesterol and raise good cholesterol
- reduce your body fat and improve your body’s ability to use insulin
- lower your risk for heart disease and stroke
- keep your heart and bones strong
- keep your joints flexible
- help you lose weight
- give you more energy
- reduce your stress levels
Be active in your daily life routine
- Walk around while you talk on the phone.
- Play with the kids; take your dog for a walk.
- Clean the house, do gardening, watering plants or rake leaves, washing vehicle.
- Take stairs instead of the elevator or lift.
- Walk the most instead of using vehicles.
- At work, walk over to see your co-worker instead of calling or emailing.
Aerobic exercise for diabetes
Aerobic exercise makes your heart beat faster, and you will also breathe harder, thus you burn high calories, and your lung expands and energizes the whole body. Doing exercise for 30 minutes a day at least 5 days a week provides many benefits. You can even split up those 30 minutes into several parts, example, you can take three brisk 10-minute each.
Start with some warm-up stretch, before you start exercising, and make to cool down after you finished your exercise. If you are new to exercise, then start slowly with 5 to 10 minutes a day. Add a little more time each week, aiming for at least 2 to 3 hours per week.
Some aerobic exercises to try:
- Brisk walk
- climbing stairs
- swimming or taking a water-aerobics class
- dancing
- riding bicycle (outdoors or indoors)
- taking an aerobics class
- playing (basketball, volleyball, tennis or other sports)
- in-line skating, ice skating, or skate boarding
- cross-country skiing
Can a diabetic do strength exercise
Doing diabetic exercises with weights, elastic bands, or weight machines three times a week builds your muscles and bones. It makes you overall healthy, flexible, and balanced. When you have more muscle and less fat, you will burn more calories because muscle burns more calories, even between exercise sessions.
Important when doing diabetes exercises
Physical activity for some may cause low blood-glucose or hypoglycemia, so please have glucose tablet or gel with you, if you type 2 diabetes. In addition, if you type 1 diabetes keep a glucagon’s kit at your easy reach. Give glucagons as an injection with a syringe and quickly raise blood-glucose.
If you have type 1 diabetes, avoid strenuous exercise when you have ketones in your blood or urine. Ketones are chemicals your body might make when your blood-glucose level is high, and your insulin level is low. Large quantity of ketones can make you sick. If you exercise when you have ketones in your blood or urine, your blood-glucose level may go even higher.
If you have type 1 diabetes, avoid strenuous exercise when you have ketones in your blood or urine. Ketones are chemicals your body might make when your blood-glucose level is high, and your insulin level is low. Large quantity of ketones can make you sick. If you exercise when you have ketones in your blood or urine, your blood-glucose level may go even higher.
If you have high blood pressure or eye, problems then avoid heavy weight lifting or hard exercise. This may worsen your problems consult your doctor.
If nerve damage from diabetes has made your feet numb, your doctor may suggest that you try swimming instead of walking for aerobic exercise.
