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Well I feel great after this workout.....especially being diabetic lol. But I wanted to clarify some stuff.

1st. I have never worked out this hard in my life but my whole body is feeling like jelly and trembling *glucose levels are at 93, so still good* just shaking from the workout. Is this the normal feeling I am supposed to get?

2nd, I was thinking when I was doing the work outs if I was supposed to do each set the sametime after the 2-3 minute rest or do the preacher curls rest two minutes then do the tricep curls then rest and just go down the list.

LAST, I am still wondering about supplements and wondering if any other diabetics are using them if you are on these forums? I have type 2 and not type 1 and still Pill dependent. *One goal is to hopefully be taking off those pills or just take them when I feel like I need too*

Thanks to everyone for reading this

AND....

A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU MARK! You have given me some hope and something to follow by!

ArthurVictory wrote:Well I feel great after this workout.....especially being diabetic lol. But I wanted to clarify some stuff.

1st. I have never worked out this hard in my life but my whole body is feeling like jelly and trembling *glucose levels are at 93, so still good* just shaking from the workout. Is this the normal feeling I am supposed to get?

2nd, I was thinking when I was doing the work outs if I was supposed to do each set the sametime after the 2-3 minute rest or do the preacher curls rest two minutes then do the tricep curls then rest and just go down the list.

LAST, I am still wondering about supplements and wondering if any other diabetics are using them if you are on these forums? I have type 2 and not type 1 and still Pill dependent. *One goal is to hopefully be taking off those pills or just take them when I feel like I need too*

Thanks to everyone for reading this

AND....

A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU MARK! You have given me some hope and something to follow by!

Answer to 1st = YES, it means you are tarining to failure

Answer to 2nd = I wait 2 - 3 minutes between each muscle group, if I am doing drop sets on the same muscle group then I will only wait 1 minute. I currently drop set on pek dek and Cable bicep curls.

Answer to 3rd = Sorry no view.

Thank you for your response! I knew some patience would come in handy and someone would notice the new guy lol. Ok I understand abou tthe sets and glad to know that I did train to failure! I am still trying to read up about diabetic bodybuilding and how supplements effect us. I will hopefully stumble upon it one day!


But thank you again for responding back to me, I really do appreciate it!

Which supplements?

I'm not diabetic but I know someone who is very well and much worse than you so maybe I can help.

I am also familiar with tht 3 style training.

Well basically the main two Creatine and Whey Protein, Check. I been reading mixed things, like on Diabetes Health website it tells me that I can use Creatine in my diet but too just keep it to half for load phase and maintenance phase. Whey Protein I hear many different things as well!

But I only been doing this for two weeks and I have friends at work noticing I am getting tighter, not bigger yet, just tighter and stronger.

Sorry for the delay, I had to wait to have a talk with the type 1 diabetic that I know.

It seems that the nature of diabetes is so unique to the individual especially when you add in the different way people train, the intensity they take it to etc. that the best and safest advice would be to discuss this with the medical pro that looks after your condition. If they're not familiar with the supplements then they can probably put you in touch with someone who is involved with sports medicine.

You need to be careful with advice you read on the web as it can be so diverse and what is good for one person can be completely wrong for another, I think that you should be very careful with using any "loading" type activity as diabetes already puts some of your organs under increased stress, it also seems that loading isn't proven to make any difference to just taking the maintenance amount.

I think you need to find someone who will look into this on a personal level with you. I myself suffer from a chronic form of muscular dystrophy called C.M.T. which has given me problems since my early teens (I'm now 43). Strength training is the only effective thing I can do to slow the effects of it down. I was eventually properly diagnosed with it over 20 years ago when I was a competitive swimmer and training 6 days a week (3on, 1off, 3on, 1off) it was THT3 style traing that I was doing. At the time I was told that there was no point in training anymore as I was fighting a battle that I couldn't win and stupidly I gave it all up (which is a real piss off because now 20 years later it's now commonly recommended that it's the only thing that can make any difference). Anyway luckily I never really completely gave up the strength training and pottered along with it until the beginning of this year when I found out that it's now the recommended treatment! and got back into it seriously. You wouldn't believe the difference in the quality of life I've experienced in the last 9 months and amazingly I'm actually lifting heavier weights now on certain excercises than I was 20 years ago, it has improved every aspect of my life (far too much to go into here)!

Anyway, I have had no end of personal help from local medical pro's, so that is the route that I would advise you to take and I hope that you get as much out of your training as I have but be careful though I did know someone that died from diabetic complications when they were only 22.

Get some personal advice and go for it!!! The mental effects alone of training hard are worth the hard work never mind the strength and physique improvements!