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Nutrition/Food Science & Dietetics, Personal Trainer
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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So, if you’ve been following my articles on how to get started on improving your health through diet and exercise, you've noticed an emphasis on good nutrition and strength training. The other part of this is your cardiovascular health -- aerobic exercise. This aspect of exercise can be co...
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Types of Cardio and Different Blood Sugar Effects
Anna
Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Hey Andrew-
Great post- I believe that both "steady state" and interval type training have their respective places in a workout program. There are even more benefits when the two are combined together.
I wanted to mention the effects that both types of cardio have on blood sugar. If you don't believe that different types of cardio are totally different training for your body, just watch your blood sugar! In my experience, different training has very different results. Hard intervals, for example, usually cause my blood sugar to drop rapidly in the first fifteen minutes, but I often "level" out by twenty minutes into the workout. Intervals cause a more extreme post workout spike- sometimes I even start to spike during the end of the workout. Steady state cardio usually involves a more predictable and gradual fall in blood sugar, a milder spike after, and a decreased need for insulin throughout the rest of the day that I have never experienced with intervals.
I'm curious- has anyone else had a similar experience? or different? I have found that how high I spike after a workout is also a function of whether or not I wore my pump and continued insulin during the workout, so I am careful now about making sure I continue insulin throughout. Sometimes, when I am about 20 minutes away from the end, I take a bolus to counteract that spike.
Hey Andrew-
Great post- I believe that both "steady state" and interval type training have their respective places in a workout program. There are even more benefits when the two are combined together.
I wanted to mention the effects that both types of cardio have on blood sugar. If you don't believe that different types of cardio are totally different training for your body, just watch your blood sugar! In my experience, different training has very different results. Hard intervals, for example, usually cause my blood sugar to drop rapidly in the first fifteen minutes, but I often "level" out by twenty minutes into the workout. Intervals cause a more extreme post workout spike- sometimes I even start to spike during the end of the workout. Steady state cardio usually involves a more predictable and gradual fall in blood sugar, a milder spike after, and a decreased need for insulin throughout the rest of the day that I have never experienced with intervals.
I'm curious- has anyone else had a similar experience? or different? I have found that how high I spike after a workout is also a function of whether or not I wore my pump and continued insulin during the workout, so I am careful now about making sure I continue insulin throughout. Sometimes, when I am about 20 minutes away from the end, I take a bolus to counteract that spike.