Type 2 Diabetes - Is Eccentric Exercise a Potential Preventative?
Eccentric exercise is a potential preventative for Type 2 diabetes.
By "eccentric" we don't mean unicycle riding or extreme ironing or wrestling alligators, but rather any kind of exercise in which muscles stretch as they exert force.
This is exercise like lowering a weight or pushing down on a pedal.
Actually it has been found that a thirty minute session a week of eccentric exercise:
more than concentric exercise.
The good news about eccentric exercise is that just one 30 minute session per week has been proven to be enough to increase fat burning...
by a whopping 12%...
and as well, reduce insulin resistance.
Both these results showed by the eighth week of exercise.
Researchers of this strength-training study only followed women exercisers, and they chose a once-weekly workout with the idea that, if this level of commitment made a difference, women might follow through with their exercise resolutions.
And if there was going to be just one exercise session a week, then they needed to find the kind of exercise that really counts.
The kind of exercise that works is lowering a weight gently rather than lifting a weight with a quick jerk.
The kind of exercise that works is pushing a weight away from your body rather than pulling a weight up to your body.
If you scrunch up your muscles, you aren't doing the kind of exercise that helps control your insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes.
Rowing a real boat by pushing the oars in front of you helps diabetes.
Rowing on a rowing machine by pulling a handle to you is not the most effective form of exercise to help improve your insulin resistance and in turn your blood sugar.
If you stretch out your muscles while applying pressure, then you are doing the kind of exercise that helps control your Type 2 diabetes.
If you go to a gym, ask a trainer to point out the eccentric exercise machines.
And if they don't know, ask at another gym.
A small amount of eccentric exercise can make a huge difference in your blood sugar control...
and very fast.
By "eccentric" we don't mean unicycle riding or extreme ironing or wrestling alligators, but rather any kind of exercise in which muscles stretch as they exert force.
This is exercise like lowering a weight or pushing down on a pedal.
- usually strength training consists of concentric exercises.
This is where muscles shorten as they lift an object, for example when lifting weights to do bicep curls - eccentric exercises are when the muscles lengthen or stretch as you lower an object gently, for example a weight
Actually it has been found that a thirty minute session a week of eccentric exercise:
- boosted their muscle strength, and
- lowered insulin resistance
more than concentric exercise.
The good news about eccentric exercise is that just one 30 minute session per week has been proven to be enough to increase fat burning...
by a whopping 12%...
and as well, reduce insulin resistance.
Both these results showed by the eighth week of exercise.
Researchers of this strength-training study only followed women exercisers, and they chose a once-weekly workout with the idea that, if this level of commitment made a difference, women might follow through with their exercise resolutions.
And if there was going to be just one exercise session a week, then they needed to find the kind of exercise that really counts.
The kind of exercise that works is lowering a weight gently rather than lifting a weight with a quick jerk.
The kind of exercise that works is pushing a weight away from your body rather than pulling a weight up to your body.
If you scrunch up your muscles, you aren't doing the kind of exercise that helps control your insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes.
Rowing a real boat by pushing the oars in front of you helps diabetes.
Rowing on a rowing machine by pulling a handle to you is not the most effective form of exercise to help improve your insulin resistance and in turn your blood sugar.
If you stretch out your muscles while applying pressure, then you are doing the kind of exercise that helps control your Type 2 diabetes.
If you go to a gym, ask a trainer to point out the eccentric exercise machines.
And if they don't know, ask at another gym.
A small amount of eccentric exercise can make a huge difference in your blood sugar control...
and very fast.