Albert Olivella: "Exercise fights diabetes, but with a progressive effort"

Patients with diabetes can exercise, although making a progressive effort, which goes from basic levels to the most advanced practice, without committing excesses.This was explained yesterday at the Asturian Press Club Albert Olivella, physical trainer, specialist in muscle function and exercise with diabetes, which was presented by Elías Delgado Álvarez, professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oviedo and Head of the Diabetes Section HeadHUCA Endocrinology and Nutrition Service, which highlighted the importance of sport so that diabetic patients improve their state.

Olivella, director of the Active Diabetes Institute in Barcelona, ​​stressed the importance of combining basic aerobic exercise (walking or running), with a strength activity, such as lifting weights to get more metabolic capacity.Olivella warned about how subjective it is to assess the level of effort, which is different in each person."Every exercise depends on the force, the key is at what level you have to do it," said the specialist who works in Barcelona with well -known sport figures.

Albert Olivella put as an example of overcoming the case of the athlete Bea García, which with type 1 diabetes from the age of 10 (the type of diabetes that is forced to inject insulin to lower the level of blood sugar), has managed to complete the test ofThe 4 deserts, consisting of four races in the deserts of the Gobi, Atacama, Sahara and Antarctica, the hottest, cold, windy and dry places on the planet.

To put into practice the importance of exercising, starting next Monday 13, and for six days, the cycling test “pedaling by Babia and Ribadesella will take place to combat diabetes”, in which there will be half a hundred participants, asElías Delgado announced.

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