Weight training

Hi guys.

Can anyone tell me the effects of weight/resistance training has a blood sugars? Several times I have started training with good sugars and during training, then about an hour after I have high sugars!!

Hello Mike,

I can't comment on weight training as it is not my field. However, your experience is similar to mine. I am a Yoga Teacher and I find coping with exercise quite tricky. It is so unpredictable - sometimes bg goes down, other times it goes up. According to runsweet.com, this is due to the aerobic/anaerobic quality of the exercise. They may be able to give you more detailed information than I can.

Don't be surprised Mike87.
Depending on how rigorous your training is you may well find BGs going up initially as we respond to adreniline and other hormones which make us temporarily insulin resistant.
Your liver also may also respond by releasing it's store of glucagen into your bloodstream as a 'Fight-or-Flight' preparation.
So try get as much information on what your BGs do, both before and after exercise and you'll get to know your normal response. Unusual BGs then are much more clear and you can try figure out what made them differ.
Regards
Garry

NuMo is correct. The type of exercise matters and you'll find you will need to adjust insulin as your body needs that as much as carbs
for exercise.

Warwick and I are going to start a conversation soon linked to this sort of thing after reading a book recently published call "your diabetes science experiment" by Ginger Vieira. It compliments DAFNE by adding more information detail, so I do recommend reading it generally.

We plan to start the new thread soon once a few experiments are done.

Thanks for all the responses, very helpful. My PT has given me some references to read up on just thought I'd ask people in the same situ as me.

Jwo that sounds good, could u keep updated on this thread and what goes on??

It'll be a thread on this forum - you'll be able to follow it easily. No worries.

Hope it all works out to help you continue your training.