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I've been T2 for nearly 15 years and managed to stay off the meds through diet and exercise. It's been a bit up and down but I've pickup the running exercise a bit more recently.
I find that I run out of energy after an hour, irrespective of how fit I feel I am. My endurance doesn't last beyond that 60 mins however slow I run.
Now I understand that T2's struggle to put down muscle glycogen reserves which I what usually fuels running upto a couple of hours in a well trained body - this is a possible reason for my lack of endurance. I also understand that muscle glycogen can be topped up most efficiently within the first 30mins after exercise. This is something that I haven't been doing as I am on a low-carb diet which has improved my Hba1c.
As a bit of background, I do a fair bit of low intensity training in a fasted state ( three 1 hour pre breakfast x-trainer session per week) to improve the way my body utilises fats for exercise. Fasted training is something I always did in my pre-diabetic life when I was a keen cyclist putting in upto 200miles a week most weeks. Now, I rarely cycle, but as well as the x-trainer, I do 4-5 runs per week (75min slow, 60min hard, + 2-3 30mins hard) and a couple of strength sessions.
However that 75 min run is torture for the last 15 mins and I would love to be able to extend it to 2 hours but however I try I just run out of energy. I've tried to boost my energy levels by eating dried fruit at about 45mins but I doesn't seem to make much difference.. I'm now thinking that I should be utilising that 30 minute window after my hard training to take on some of the carbs I have been avoiding.
Does anybody have any advice on this? Does any other T2 have experience of taking on carbs just after a long exercise session?
Ta
I find that I run out of energy after an hour, irrespective of how fit I feel I am. My endurance doesn't last beyond that 60 mins however slow I run.
Now I understand that T2's struggle to put down muscle glycogen reserves which I what usually fuels running upto a couple of hours in a well trained body - this is a possible reason for my lack of endurance. I also understand that muscle glycogen can be topped up most efficiently within the first 30mins after exercise. This is something that I haven't been doing as I am on a low-carb diet which has improved my Hba1c.
As a bit of background, I do a fair bit of low intensity training in a fasted state ( three 1 hour pre breakfast x-trainer session per week) to improve the way my body utilises fats for exercise. Fasted training is something I always did in my pre-diabetic life when I was a keen cyclist putting in upto 200miles a week most weeks. Now, I rarely cycle, but as well as the x-trainer, I do 4-5 runs per week (75min slow, 60min hard, + 2-3 30mins hard) and a couple of strength sessions.
However that 75 min run is torture for the last 15 mins and I would love to be able to extend it to 2 hours but however I try I just run out of energy. I've tried to boost my energy levels by eating dried fruit at about 45mins but I doesn't seem to make much difference.. I'm now thinking that I should be utilising that 30 minute window after my hard training to take on some of the carbs I have been avoiding.
Does anybody have any advice on this? Does any other T2 have experience of taking on carbs just after a long exercise session?
Ta