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Straight answers · Type2 FitnessAnswer 02 / 08

Straight answers

What are the best workouts for type 2 diabetes?

Strength training. Not endless cardio. Muscle is the biggest sponge your body has for blood sugar, and building it changed everything for me. Add a short walk after meals, and you have the two moves that matter most.

Why muscle comes first

During a workout, your muscles pull glucose directly from your blood to fuel the work. No permission slip from insulin needed. The more muscle you carry, the bigger that sponge is, all day, even when you are sitting down. That is why I build every client programme around resistance training first.

Squats Presses Rows Simple movements, done well

The combination that worked for me

1

Train with resistance

3 to 4 days a week. I started at three. Simple movements, light resistance, nothing extreme.

Mon · Wed · Fri

2

Walk after meals

10 to 20 minutes after you eat. Your muscles soak up the sugar from that meal while it is still peaking.

3

Rest on purpose

Recovery is part of training, not a day off from it. Your muscles rebuild and your sugar steadies between sessions.

Scared of the gym?

"Most of my clients were scared of the gym when they started."

So was I. I could not get up a flight of stairs without losing my breath. Nobody starts where I am now. You start with three days a week and movements your body can do today, and we build from there. Your only benchmark is yesterday's version of you.

I started three days a week. Today I train four. That gap was closed one ordinary week at a time.

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