The Importance of Combining a Cardiovascular Workout and Strength Training For Diabetics

Before I was diagnosed having diabetes, I don't really exercise regularly as now. I exercise only when I do feel I like it. For me exercising means that it would strengthen my body, most of my exercises are strength training. I don't want cardiovascular workout as it is too time consuming for me. With strength training I could sweat easy with little time to spare.

This has been my exercise routine for most of my life and I couldn't continue with it since it puts too much pressure on my muscle. I could only keep it up for two months or less and then I would not workout for months. After that I would feel that I am feeling weak again and start to get back to my old routine. The process goes on until I felt that my body is stronger again.

I was doing some workout at a nearby Gym when I started to feel weak; immediately after I got home I told my mother and she said that I should have my blood sugar tested. It was this time that I have known that I have diabetes. Upon knowing this I tried to be active by doing some strength training. But it was too hard for me since my body is weaker than before.

Two months had passed and I have grown tired of the exercise routine. This has caused my blood sugar to rise fast. To fight this I was forced to take up medication in the form of metformin. Although it had helped my blood sugar to become low, it is still not enough because my blood sugar weren't dropping lower than 200. It was this time that I thought of buying the body slender, a work out machine which is intended to burn those extra pounds all around your body.

Together with my new exercise machine and some strength training I manage to control my blood sugar to 100+. Up to now, I am not see my blood sugar to rise more than 100+. This is where I got the conclusion that combining cardiovascular workout and strength training is the best exercise program for someone with diabetes.

I like to share my research so that diabetics could have a sweet life after their illness. The problem that people with diabetes is that most of them lack knowledge about it.