Indoor Exercises for Diabetes Patient: For diabetes management, experts advise its patients to take proper treatment, balanced and nutritious diet along with exercising daily. Diabetes will remain under control only when you are physically active. In people with type 1 diabetes, strength training while exercising can help build muscle and reduce the risk of low blood sugar levels. Exercising daily not only manages diabetes, but also keeps weight under control, strengthens bones, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels. You are protected from heart related diseases.

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According to Dr. Mudit Sabharwal, Director and Consultant Diabetologist, Diabecura Healthcare and Dharma Diabetes & Metabolic Clinics, people with diabetes find it difficult and challenging to exercise daily. Often people ignore the habit of exercising in the rainy season. To maintain the blood sugar level, it is important that you include workouts at home in the routine. By exercising daily along with a healthy diet, diabetic patients can see positive changes in blood sugar as well as blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels.

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Dr. Mudit Sabharwal further says that if you have diabetes, then follow an indoor workout routine after consulting your doctor. Especially it must be known about those exercises, which are helpful in increasing energy and maintaining proper level of blood sugar. Here we are telling you about 5 such indoor exercises, which can be easily done by diabetic patients. You can manage diabetes by doing these easy workouts.

Do these 5 indoor exercises for diabetic patients

• Aerobic Exercises- Adults with type 2 diabetes should do both aerobic and resistance exercise training to maintain optimal glycemic and optimal health. This includes strength training. Furthermore, weekly 150 minutes of aerobic exercise markedly improves glycemic control in type-2 diabetes.
• Wall push ups: Diabetic patients are also benefited by doing this indoor exercise. To practice this, stand facing the wall. Place your palms on the wall in line with the shoulders. Keeping your torso straight, do plank stance firmly. Bend your elbows to bring your chest towards the wall. Slowly push back and straighten your arms.
• Hip Lifts: Lie down on your back on the floor. Bend the legs at the knees. Contract your stomach and try to lift your hips or waist area off the floor. The sap of your body will look like a bridge. During this, both the hands should remain straight on the floor. Keep the waist part raised upwards. During this the body should remain stable.
• Lunges: Stand with feet shoulder width apart. Keep both the hands on the waist. Maintain the balance of the body. Now extend your right foot forward and with the help of the ankles of the left foot, keep the foot backward. The sole of the front foot should be close to the floor. Now rise up first, then come down. Stay in this position for a few seconds and then repeat the same process by moving the left leg forward. Lunges exercise strengthens the muscles and bones of the legs. This exercise is better to keep the lower body active. When you go down, breathe in inwards and when you stand up, exhale. Repeat this process 8-12 times.

• Chair Raises: Sit down on a chair. The chair should be in the right condition or else you may fall. Keep your hands straight towards your chest and lean back. Your hands should be absolutely straight in front of you, so that you can sit straight and stand straight. Come back to your sitting position and repeat this exercise.

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