# Emily’s Exercise BG Thread
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309
**Category:** Sports & Exercise
**Tags:** blood-sugar, walking
**Created:** [October 10, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309 "2017-10-10T03:43:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/21 "2019-01-29T14:40:16Z")
> [@Eric](#):
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> you may see your Tresiba dose need to be reduced.
That’s honestly part of why I’m doing this…my insulin needs are greatly reduced when I’m “exercising” (based on days I’ve had recently with a lot of extra walking). Numbers are just better all around…
> [@T1Allison](#):
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> I always prioritized safety over tight numbers
That’s certainly my initial priority. I have a feeling I’m not going to have crazy spikes or lows from this, just based off effects of varying activity levels I’ve noticed in recent months.
So far this morning is a bit of a fail - had planned to go the gym this morning, but my husband had to go in to work. Maybe I _will_ just try lifting my son a bajillion times instead. 😜
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### Author:  [@jag1](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/jag1)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/22 "2019-01-29T18:39:38Z")
> [@Pianoplayer7008](#):
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> So far this morning is a bit of a fail - had planned to go the gym this morning, but my husband had to go in to work. Maybe I _will_ just try lifting my son a bajillion times instead. 😜
Awesome. This is just what I’ve been waiting for - now its MY turn to be a coach.
Tuesday:
5 sets of each:
10 reps bench-press your son
10 reps dead-lift your son
10 reps clean-and-jerk your son
Diaper changes as needed…
Let me know when you’re ready for Wednesday’s workout 🙂
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/23 "2019-01-29T23:56:17Z")
Emily, since you don’t have a lot of experience with exercise, here are a few thoughts, although I figure you likely know them all already:
- Stretching—before you decide to incorporate it in your routine, read this:
> **[Quite a Stretch: Stretching Hype Debunked](https://www.painscience.com/articles/stretching.php)**
>
> Stretching science shows that it doesn't do most of what people hope it does. Detailed article.
There is no scientific evidence that it helps, on the contrary. But it may feel good to you, so check the article out!
- Warm-up: important, in order to avoid injuries and improve performance, before you go into the meat of your routine.
- Cool-down: basically the same thing as a warm-up, but at the end—finish your routine with a lower intensity segment
- Ramp up the intensity of your workout very progressively: don’t go all out the first or second time! Ramp up over a couple or months. It is easy to get injured by increasing intensity too fast.
- When using weight, smaller weights and larger numbers of reps are in general your friends. Many try to increase weight as much as possible, but, really, smaller weights and more reps are, in general, preferable for people who don’t exercise a lot.
- Keep track of basal, BG before, during and after, carb intake, and trends: do you go down during exercise? Do you spike afterwards? Did you need to take carbs and when?
- Consider that it is not only the day’s exercise that impacts you. For us, the last week of exercise can impact basal needs for instance.
- Try to refuel very quickly if you need to refuel. Within 90 minutes is best. You may not need to depending upon the intensity of your workout.
- To refuel, you MUST be in range. If you are high you are not refueling. So you may need insulin for that, and proper timing for it.
Good luck! We are all waiting for the reports!
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### Author:  [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/24 "2019-01-30T00:12:54Z")
> [@Pianoplayer7008](#):
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> I’m reviving this thread…
Bravo! 🌹🌹
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### Author:  [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/25 "2019-02-10T04:40:46Z")
How are things going, Emily? Are you managing to find any time??
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### Author:  [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2019, 5:47am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/26 "2019-02-10T05:47:17Z")
Not yet. 😆 We went out of town last week (though I was walking more than usual, and our room was upstairs…that counts, right?). The kids caught a cold that they kindly have shared, so I’ve been caring for them and am now down with it myself (even colds hit me hard between all my health issues). I told my husband last year we wouldn’t ever travel in the wintertime again because we always catch something nasty (couldn’t help it this year). Feeling like that position is justified…
@jag1, that gave me a laugh!
@Michel, thank you! That’s the kind of advice this newbie needs, ha!
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### Author:  [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2019, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/27 "2019-02-10T05:57:46Z")
> [@Pianoplayer7008](#):
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> We went out of town last week (though I was walking more than usual, and our room was upstairs…that counts, right?).
It absolutely counts. It better count. 😁
Sorry you’re sick! I hope you and the kids are better soon. 🤞
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### Author:  [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/28 "2019-02-11T16:35:20Z")
Thanks! My daughter’s throwing up this morning (yay, toddler life!), so any exercise is again out of the question. Just hoping I’m not next… 😨
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### Author:  [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/29 "2019-02-11T16:48:26Z")
Sorry, @Pianoplayer7008. 😕 Do you listen to music at all? There’s always kitchen dancing… 🤔
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### Author:  [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/30 "2019-02-11T16:58:33Z")
I sing and dance while I clean all the time. I am doing a lot of cleaning today… 😊
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### Author:  [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/31 "2019-02-11T17:00:46Z")
❤❤❤
I’m dancing while I write this! 💃🏻
I hope your baby feels better and all germs are deflected off your body armor. I hope you have body armor. 🤔
Enjoy your cleaning, dancing, and singing today. ❤
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### Author:  [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/32 "2019-02-11T17:03:36Z")
> [@Nickyghaleb](#):
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> I hope you have body armor. 🤔
Ha! I think I still have a very thin layer, because, while we’ve been sick pretty much constantly since October, I’ve had mostly mild (for me) cases of everything. Shocking, really, because my immune system is a mess.
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### Author:  [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/33 "2019-02-11T17:15:02Z")
Then maybe just a mask? Would that go over okay with your kids? 😬
I have a dish towel that says _Do one thing everyday that scares your family._ I try to honor that. A face mask would be awesome. 😁
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### Author:  [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/34 "2019-02-11T17:21:22Z")
I did buy masks to wear in public, for myself and my daughter, since she’s also got a health issue that puts her at more than normal risk with illness…but I wasn’t thinking when I bought them, and mine are black. I look like I’m about to rob any store I walk into. 🤣
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### Author:  [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/35 "2019-02-11T17:24:19Z")
> [@Pianoplayer7008](#):
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> I look like I’m about to rob any store I walk into. 🤣
Well, I don’t think I’d be scared if I saw you coming in… or particularly convinced. You’d make for a very pleasant and accommodating robber. 😁
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### Author:  [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/36 "2019-02-11T17:26:20Z")
😊 aw, thanks. I do end up looking pretty ridiculous, since I have to perch my glasses on top of the mask _just so_ to avoid them fogging up with every exhalation.
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### Author:  [@T1Allison](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/T1Allison)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/37 "2019-02-11T18:33:12Z")
My kiddo and I had to go to the Children’s Hospital ER one night in the peak of a really bad flu season. I was almost out of sick time at work so I wore a mask into the hospital. Well, my kiddo also wanted a face mask and that seemed fine to me so he wore one, too.
Every single door through the parking garage/lobby/hospital/etc was held open for us by a stranger. I thought, “Man, everyone is SO nice downtown at night!”…and then it dawned on me what they were thinking since we were going into a Children’s Hospital with face masks on…I felt like the biggest liar ever! I felt so bad!!
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/38 "2019-02-11T18:39:46Z")
> [@T1Allison](#):
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> Every single door through the parking garage/lobby/hospital/etc was held open for us by a stranger. (…) I felt so bad!!
OK, @T1Allison, I always thought you were badass but… This makes ME want to wear a mask next time I go to Children’s…
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### Author:  [@T1Allison](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/T1Allison)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/39 "2019-02-11T19:00:56Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> OK, @T1Allison, I always thought you were badass but… This makes ME want to wear a mask next time I go to Children’s…
LOL!
I was just Mr. Magoo’ing my way thru life like I usually do until the truth of the situation dawned on me…which is usually how it happens!
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### Author:  [@Pianoplayer7008](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Pianoplayer7008)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/emily-s-exercise-bg-thread/2309/40 "2019-02-11T19:14:55Z")
> [@T1Allison](#):
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> I felt like the biggest liar ever! I felt so bad!!
That actually made me hesitate in choosing to wear a mask, because I felt like I’d be some faker, people assuming reasons why we were wearing masks that weren’t actually _that_ serious. But then my husband happened to mention that some of the doctors at his hospital (he’s a nurse) wear masks in public during flu season just to avoid exposure, and that made me feel a little better.
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