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Q&A with Australian Health Practitioners
Is weight training to build muscle mass or cardio workout more important for someone living with Type II Diabetes?
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Dr Anabela Novas
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I consider them both important. Both contribute to better health for diabetes type II patients. While cardiovascular workouts are longer in duration, they assist in increasing energy expenditure, decreasing body fat, maintaining or decreasing weight, according to the objective of the patient. This is why it improves diabetes inflammation and can decrease the risks associated with disease.
At the same time, weight training also contributes to manage the disease, because it assists energy expenditure, but not as much as cardiovascular workouts. But, it increases muscle mass, and this way, it increases the metabolic rate. Increasing muscle mass contributes helps with improving the insulin sensitivity, another important factor for diabetes type II patients. Therefor I would recommend including both weight training and cardiovascular workouts in the program, either on the same day or on different days, but definitely both as part of the program.
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