Type 2 Diabetes and Muscle Mass
Everyone wants more muscle mass, but none need it more than diabetics. The connection between muscle mass and blood glucose is irrefutable. The more muscle mass you have the greater the calories the body expends, in other words, glucose has less chance to accumulate in the bloodstream. This is why, despite the traditional recommendation that diabetics walk for about an hour every day, it would be far more effective if diabetics included some resistance training in their fitness regimen.
There is a lot of research to show that decline in muscle mass results in many health problems. As we grow older, the body automatically tends to lose muscle mass, leading to many age-related problems and a decline in physical activity, which, in turn, leads to more loss of muscle tissue.
Best exercises to increase muscle mass
1. Resistance training
As every bodybuilder knows, there is no faster route to increased muscle mass than resistance training. Resistance training relies on the concept of progressive overload to provoke muscular micro-damage to your muscle cells.
With adequate rest and diet, the body will repair this damage to a point beyond the previous breaking point, in effect causing muscular hypertrophy.
2. Bodyweight exercises
But you don’t need to hit the gym to benefit from resistance training. Bodyweight exercises, or calisthenics, are as just as effective and you don’t need the gym or any gym equipment like barbells or dumbbells. You can also incorporate simple but effective props into your exercise routine.
Anti-gravity exercises
A relatively recent phenomenon, anti-gravity exercises are a highly effective way to keep your blood sugar in check. One of the easiest ways to incorporate this new form of exercise is stair-climbing.
Nitric oxide dump.
Another highly effective way to keep your muscle mass from atrophying is by doing the nitric oxide dump. The dump is a set of just four basic body movements, It stimulates the release of nitric oxide—whose molecules relax your muscles and increase dilation of the muscle cells, promoting blood flow and improving your cardiovascular, nervous and immune systems.
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