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Joining the gym

khovell

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1st post. I'm about to join a gym for the 1st time and wondered if you have any tips for maintaining bg levels whilst gyming, or any other tips in general. Ta!

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Scroll down the forums and have a read in the exercise forum there is quite a bit on snacks and general there, wont put a link to a single thread as lots of good info and worth a read

I would say ignore the gym spend the money on a local Personal Trainer they are brilliant and one on one and not to expensive. They will build your exercise in a correctly structured basis instead of you just doing different things
A gym is huge and impersonal, yes you can have help but it isn't on the same basis. I would never go back to a gym and used to belong to total fitness which at ours has fantastic facilitates but not suit my needs. If you look at the data most people find. They join a gym, go a few times and it fades a PT doesn't.
 
I joined the gym in November 2013 and at the same time diagnosed type 2. I have no personal trainer. I do cardio and heavy weights approx 4-5 times a week every week. This has been coupled with a total change in diet of low fat. The key is maintaining the exercise routine and diet. I had my bloods done recently and today i learned they were all clear. Doesn't mean that its been reversed because i don't believe it can be. I'm just going to continue what i have been doing. After all it can only be good for my wellbeing

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I joined the local gym. The trainer there worked with me to come up with a plan, now I can just go whenever I have time, and spend as long, or as little as I can fit it. The other benefit is after my routine, I can spend time in the pool, or the sauna. Whichever suits you, any exercise is good.
 
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