While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.

While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise. - T1D Exchange

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  If you’re spending the day at a pool or beach, do you take extra precautions with your CGM or insulin pump?
  Since I wear Tandem CQI I take it off when I'm actually getting into a body of water. Since it's water resistant, I keep it attached when I'm around bodies of water or on the water, ie on a boat.
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  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  If you’re spending the day at a pool or beach, do you take extra precautions with your CGM or insulin pump?
  I keep the pump out of direct sunlight. My pump is black colored and insulin in the reservior can cook pretty quick in direct sunlight
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  If you’re spending the day at a pool or beach, do you take extra precautions with your CGM or insulin pump?
  I use CGM over patches all year, but need them most during summer. Swimming and increased sweating both loosen my CGM patch edges. At the pool , I have a waterproof roll bag that my pump and phone go in. I throw my towel over the bag and my shoes. I live near beaches but am too old for all the traffic, parking, and worries about theft, to enjoy body surfing anymore.
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  If you’re spending the day at a pool or beach, do you take extra precautions with your CGM or insulin pump?
  I put extra tape on my G7 and suspend and take off my T:slim X2
- 16 hours, 28 minutes ago
  
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  If you’re spending the day at a pool or beach, do you take extra precautions with your CGM or insulin pump?
  I am pretty pool adverse, so Ivanswered “no.” Also, when I do go to a pool, it is generally within a couple miles from where I am staying, so I can obtain supplies fairly quickly.
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  If you’re spending the day at a pool or beach, do you take extra precautions with your CGM or insulin pump?
  I answered 'other' as I generally do not go to pools or beaches.
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  If you’re spending the day at a pool or beach, do you take extra precautions with your CGM or insulin pump?
  The Omnipod 5 and Dexcom sensor are both able to get wet but I do dry them both off when I get out of the water. I always make sure that I use the overlay patch on the sensor.. I always bring my blood sugar test kit with me wherever I go in case a mishap happens.
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  If you’re spending the day at a pool or beach, do you take extra precautions with your CGM or insulin pump?
  The Omnipod 5 and Dexcom sensor are both able to get wet but I do dry them both off when I get out of the water. I always make sure that I use the overlay patch on the sensor.. I always bring my blood sugar test kit with me wherever I go in case a mishap happens.
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  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  I've never done it myself, but have read about it in the PEAK study in adults. They studied cyclists. The idea behind sprinting to raise bg levels is that the exercise becomes anaerobic rather than aerobic, thus raising glucose levels. However, I believe the sprint was more like 10 minutes rather than 10 seconds.
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  How often do you exercise? Share more in the comments about your exercise routine.
  Does walking dogs every day, several days a week in the garden, landscaping count? While I don't do "real" exercise I keep busy and active.
- 1 day, 19 hours ago
  
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  How often do you exercise? Share more in the comments about your exercise routine.
  I do yard work 3 hours per day 3 days wk. I add 30 min treadmill 3 days per week
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- 1 day, 22 hours ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  I’ve done this and it works as long as it’s at the beginning of a run. It’s a great way to quickly bring sugars up if you’re starting out below your target, but I wouldn’t try it with sugars below 100mg/dl. I recall growing up with the term “fartleks ” being used for similar training sprints.
- 1 day, 22 hours ago
  
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  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  "Sprint" isn't the right word for me. Load-bearing hard push exercises will raise my b.s., like pushing hard on an uphill hike, legs pumping, heart rate high. Or a gym workout that is almost no cardio can raise bs by the end. But if cardio is also in the mix, I often don't see the rise
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  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  I put ‘No’ and should have put ‘Never heard this could raise blood sugar’. I have experienced bg levels climbing with different kinds of exercise. Ha! I don’t know what would classify as a sprint for a 70 year old with marginal knees. Walk and walk fast is what I do. Usually the bg would rise with weight lifting or something like yoga but that can vary, too. So many variables for a statement like that in the question for me to absolutely rely on in a situation where my bg is dropping fast. I look forward to the days of ways of giving small amounts of glucagon to elevate bg to safe and ideal levels rather than having to feed insulin.
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  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  I've never done it myself, but have read about it in the PEAK study in adults. They studied cyclists. The idea behind sprinting to raise bg levels is that the exercise becomes anaerobic rather than aerobic, thus raising glucose levels. However, I believe the sprint was more like 10 minutes rather than 10 seconds.
- 1 day, 22 hours ago
  
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  How often do you exercise? Share more in the comments about your exercise routine.
  I use the treadmill in our basement five or six days a week for 45 to 60 minutes. I do stretching and weigh lifting (very light weights) three days a week. 67 Years T1
- 1 day, 22 hours ago
  
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  How often do you exercise? Share more in the comments about your exercise routine.
  It does count.
- 2 days, 17 hours ago
  
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  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  This sounds dangerous to me.
- 2 days, 18 hours ago
  
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  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  My husband and I go for long walks (3 - 5 miles), and when I feel I am starting to drop I will do a 10-second sprint. My glucose level does seem to go up slightly, but I have found that I still drop unless I continue to do the sprints for the rest of our walk. So, while it helps to get me to a spot where I can safely sit down and treat a low, I wouldn't recommend it for long-term control.
- 2 days, 19 hours ago
  
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  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  This sounds dangerous to me.
- 2 days, 20 hours ago
  
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  While exercising, have you tried a 10-second sprint to raise your glucose level? Share your tips and tricks to raise your glucose level during exercise.
  I have also never heard of this as a technique for raising glucose levels when exercising. I wonder if the thought process behind it is a short sprint might activate the sympathetic nervous system? Interesting.
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