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Diabetes and Exercise
Treating Your Diabetes with Exercise
What can exercise do for me? What is exercise?Exercise is also known as physical activity and describes any movement that gets you moving and raises your heart rate. Exercise can take the form of dancing, walking, or working outside mowing the lawn. You don't just have to run or go to the gym to exercise. You don't need fancy machines, weights, or a persona; trainer to get your exercise in. When you are in good physical condition, you will have the flexibility, strength, and endurance needed for everyday tasks. Being physically active helps your mind and body. Being physically active will make you feel better.
Physical activity can lower your blood glucose levels, cholesterol, and blood pressure. Exercise will protect the body from stress, stroke, heart disease. Exercise will make your heart stronger, your bones stronger, and your muscles more flexible and strong. Exercise will make your body more efficient at using its own insulin, will improve joint flexibility, and help to improve blood circulation. A consistent exercise program should be employed by anyone who is obese and trying to lose weight. As opposed to quick fix weight loss programs, exercise will increase your metabolism and help you maintain a target weight. Exercise will help people of all age groups, of all sizes, and regardless of their previous level of physical activity.
One of the factors in building and sustaining a consistent level of physical activity is overcoming any barriers that would make you want to stop exercising. Below is a partial list of some of the barriers to staying physically active and how to overcome them.
Barrier 1. "I don't like the pain I feel after exercise. I don't like having sore muscles." The answer would be that soreness following exercise should be minimal if you go slowly at first and stretch out before exercise. Learn some techniques for warming up and stretching prior to working out. Remember that stretching after a workout is just as important as stretching before a workout.
Barrier 2. "I'm too tired after work." Another barrier may be that people feel that they are too tired after a hard day on the job for a workout. The response would be to exercise before going to work or during the day.
Barrier 3. "I don't have time to exercise." Another barrier would be not having 30 minutes a day to dedicate to exercise. The response would be to do as much as you can. Every little bit counts. Even if you can get a 10 minute or a 20 minute workout in, small changes in your exercise program can make positive changes to your health.
Click Here to learn more about overcoming walls and how to maintain a consistent exercise regimen.
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