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Exercise effect on blood glucose

rebrascora said:
But @Ian Robinson is going to the gym so very unlikely to "bonk", even less so as his mobility is somewhat limited.
I just think there is a temptation here on the forum to encourage people with Type 2 diabetes, who are not at risk of hypos, to take sugary drinks or snacks when they exercise which partly undoes what they are trying to achieve and perhaps also fosters a fear of having a hypo.
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I follow a Facebook page for T2s where many of the participants - who are not on medication - are eating sweets when they see a low reading. Some of them had been told to do it by their nurse!
 
helli said:
My non-diabetic partner "bonked" on his bike. Thankfully, it was on his turbo trainer doing a long steep uphill route on Zwift over a couple of hours.
He said he felt dizzy and had to get off the bike. After he felt he had recovered, he took a BG reading - 2.9 and that was after recovery.
I often mention this when people say that you only get hypos if you take insulin. That said, you need to really push it without any fuelling to bonk. I don't know of anyone who has bonked from gardening.
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Yes, apparently cycling's the most efficient way in the animal kingdom for burning calories: a salmon swimming upstream is Number Two!

All keen cyclists bonk early on in their careers, when they try a long ride without understanding the need to fuel properly. The first time it happened to me, I had to buy several chocolate bars from the nearest newsagent and sit at the roadside stuffing them down me, until I was in a fit state to carry on :rofl:.
 
I can't entertain cycling as my coordination and balance are shocking and my finger movement in my right had means I can't use the break lever, however, I can use the bikes in gym 🙂
 
Ian Robinson said:
I can't entertain cycling as my coordination and balance are shocking and my finger movement in my right had means I can't use the break lever, however, I can use the bikes in gym 🙂
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Well the bikes in gyms are great for exercise: I use them myself whenever I'm staying in a hotel with a gym 🙂
 
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