Sport for People with Diabetes

 Diabetes is a disease that had complications (other disease causing) the most. This is related to high blood sugar levels continuously may cause damage to blood vessels, nerves and other organs.

counter Diabetics can experience a variety of long-term complications if diabetes is not managed properly. Complications are more common and deadly is a heart attack and stroke. Besides other complications that may occur is damage to blood vessels in the retina of the eye (diabetic retinopathy) that can cause vision problems, abnormalities in kidney function that can cause kidney failure, so the patient must undergo dialysis (hemodialysis) and nerve damage that causes skin more frequently injured. Additionally injury / infection in patients with diabetes usually slow recovery because of high levels of sugar in the blood causing bacteria can thrive, resulting in some cases amputation is sometimes becoming one of the options to stop the spread of infection.


Importance of Exercise for People with Diabetes
Regular exercise is very important for diabetics because it can control blood sugar levels and decreased body weight and blood pressure. People with diabetes who exercise regularly are also less likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those who exercise less.

The reason why exercise can help control blood sugar levels is due at the time of exercise, muscle cells work harder so that more need to burn sugar and oxygen into energy than at rest. Exercise also helps the work of insulin because the sugar in the blood flow into muscle cells for conversion to energy, so it automatically in your blood sugar levels will drop so that will ease the work of insulin.

Here are some other benefits of regular exercise for people with diabetes:

    Controlling blood sugar, especially in type 2 diabetes, whereas for type 1 diabetes is still problematic.
    Inhibit and improve cardiovascular disease risk factors are more common in people with diabetes, such as coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and peripheral vascular disease.
    Helps weight loss program in patients with diabetes are also obese, especially if done in conjunction with dietary adjustments.
    Psychological benefits, regular exercise can improve physical fitness levels for improving the cardiovascular system, respiration, blood sugar control, so people feel fit, reduce anxiety of the illness, there is more pleasure and boost self-confidence and improve the quality of life.
    Reduce the need for the use of oral medication and insulin.
    Prevent the early onset of diabetes, especially for people - people with a family history of diabetes or for the entry in the class of pre-diabetes.

Exercise is recommended for patients with diabetes is a low impact aerobic exercise and rithmis such as gymnastics, jogging, swimming and riding a bicycle, while the static resistance exercise is not recommended (such as lifting weights, etc.). Portion of the exercise also must be considered, exercises which excessive akan detrimental to health, whereas exercises that too little not so beneficial. The determination of the portion of the exercise should pay attention to the exercise intensity, duration and frequency of training exercises.

Practically the intensity of exercise undertaken by the club - a club for people with diabetes was assessed by:

    Target pulse / training area.
    Blood sugar levels before and after exercise.
    Blood pressure before and after exercise.