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How to Stick to Your Diet and Workout Routine
So it’s Sunday night, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the month or whatever, and you have decided that now is the time to make some changes. ...
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How Resistance Training Affects Your Blood Sugar
If you regularly do cardio (like running, swimming, dancing etc.), you have probably noticed that your blood sugar reacts differently ...
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Why You Should Include Resistance Training in Your Weight Loss Plan
When we think about exercising for weight loss, we tend to turn automatically to cardio workouts that get the heart pumping, build up a ...
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How to Find Your Formula for Insulin and Food Around Workouts
Like most people with diabetes, I tend to have a love/hate relationship with cardio. I love all the positive things that cardio does for my ...
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How to Lower Your Blood Sugar With Exercise
With a diabetes diagnosis also comes the daily task of self-management, and if you have lived with diabetes for any amount of time, you know ...
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How to Succeed at a New Year’s Fitness Resolution
Research shows that a New Year's fitness resolution can be exceptionally effective, as long as you have the right approach (you can watch ...
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How I Started Running with Type 1 Diabetes (After Saying “I Don’t Run” for Years)
Jennifer Christensen lives with type 1 diabetes and recently completed her first half marathon – even though she always used to say, “I ...
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Fasted Cardio and Diabetes: Friend or Foe?
If you ask 100 people about their thoughts on fasted cardio, you’d probably get 100 different answers, coming down to two main themes: ...
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How to Create a Resistance Training Program…from SCRATCH
You’ve probably gone to the gym before. It can be a jungle out there.You’ve got the people who scream or grunt on every rep as though ...
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Managing Blood Sugar During Exercise Using an Insulin Pump
Managing blood sugars during and after exercise is one of the trickiest situations to tackle as a person living with insulin-dependent ...
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Yoga is for Everybody (Yoga Video and How Yoga can Help People with Diabetes)
Rachel Zinman, the author of Yoga For Diabetes, has created this great yoga practice that you can do anywhere - at home, in your office, ...
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Gaining Muscle with Type 1 Diabetes: An Intro Guide
When I was 14 years old, I decided my goal in life was to get a 6-pack.“Why?” you ask.In gym class, as a part of our weightlifting ...
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Insulin Pumps and Exercise: Interview with Linda Franklin
After an inspiring interview with Kyle Cochran, American Ninja Warrior finalist, about why he chooses to use an insulin pump and how it ...
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Resistance Training Workout You Can Do at Home
Let’s get rocking!Grab a pair of dumbbells and you’re good to go. This is a full-body resistance training workout you can do at home, in ...
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Insulin Pumps and Exercise: Q&A with American Ninja Warrior Finalist Kyle Cochran
This is a post I have been very excited about!I love learning from people who do extraordinary things with diabetes, so it was amazing ...
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Yoga-Inspired Flexibility Training with Lauren Bongiorno
Flexibility training is extremely beneficial. As Dr. Sheri R. Colberg described in her post about how to prevent injuries and improve joint ...
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Diabetes and Your Joints: How to Prevent Injuries and Improve Joint Health
You need properly functioning joints to be able to bend, flex, or move your body. That’s why taking care of your joints and preventing ...
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High-Energy Full-Body Resistance Training Workout
This full-body gym workout is a little different from my last one. This time around, we’ll start with a heart pounding superset of leg ...
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30-Minute Dumbbell Home Workout
Resistance training doesn’t have to happen in a gym. You can have a really good workout with very little or no equipment.All the ...
