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Hey my fellow diabetes, let's have a little fun with this question. As I'm sure you are aware, one of the ways that you and I can control our diabetes is with exercise. So, why not have the members share what they do in the arena of exercise, and of all the exercises that some of you do, which is your favorite exercise(s), and what exercise do you detest more than diabetes itself? 
I'll start this ball rolling by telling you that no less than four days a week I take my recumbent bike out for a nice ride around my creative imagination! Most weeks see me peddling five for days.
Two days a week I add a regimen of stretching, balance and isometric exercises with the lifting of five pound weights making up the remainder of a fast paced 30 minute routine that includes 28 different sets! On the days, I do the weights, stretching and isometrics, I only peddle the bike for 30 minutes for about 6.5 miles.
On the days that I don't lift weights, etc., I ride the bike for 50 to 60 minutes, usually reaching ten to eleven miles.
My exercise is rounded out with my wife, and I walk our kids (dogs) at the park, usually for a mile each day. This, BTW, is my favorite exercise because it gives me time with my wife, and our two kids.
I don't have any exercise that I don't like, and I've been following this regimen since September 1991. I started out exercising following my low back surgery (1991) and continued to keep it going. Even when I'm out-of-town [business or fun] I go to the hotel gym, or a local gym and continue to keep the routine alive and moving forward.
Over the years, I've had to adapt and adjust my exercising to the pain I suffer from, so I've gone from swimming, to walking 4 miles a day [five days a week in less than an hour], to pool walking, to the recumbent bike. Life throws me stumbling blocks, but because I know I need to exercise to keep the diabetes at arm length. I find new, fun forms of exercising!
So, tell us about your exercise. Maybe someone else will discover something that moves them to get moving!
:couch2:
layball: :juggle: :boxing: :hungry: :fish2:
Shalom,
Pastor Paul
I'll start this ball rolling by telling you that no less than four days a week I take my recumbent bike out for a nice ride around my creative imagination! Most weeks see me peddling five for days.
Two days a week I add a regimen of stretching, balance and isometric exercises with the lifting of five pound weights making up the remainder of a fast paced 30 minute routine that includes 28 different sets! On the days, I do the weights, stretching and isometrics, I only peddle the bike for 30 minutes for about 6.5 miles.
On the days that I don't lift weights, etc., I ride the bike for 50 to 60 minutes, usually reaching ten to eleven miles.
My exercise is rounded out with my wife, and I walk our kids (dogs) at the park, usually for a mile each day. This, BTW, is my favorite exercise because it gives me time with my wife, and our two kids.
I don't have any exercise that I don't like, and I've been following this regimen since September 1991. I started out exercising following my low back surgery (1991) and continued to keep it going. Even when I'm out-of-town [business or fun] I go to the hotel gym, or a local gym and continue to keep the routine alive and moving forward.
Over the years, I've had to adapt and adjust my exercising to the pain I suffer from, so I've gone from swimming, to walking 4 miles a day [five days a week in less than an hour], to pool walking, to the recumbent bike. Life throws me stumbling blocks, but because I know I need to exercise to keep the diabetes at arm length. I find new, fun forms of exercising!
So, tell us about your exercise. Maybe someone else will discover something that moves them to get moving!
:couch2:
Shalom,
Pastor Paul