Diabetes and Exercise

Diabetes and Exercise:

 Websites

  • Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association (DESA)   
    •  DESA exists to enhance the quality of life for people with diabetes through exercise and physical fitness.  This organization addresses the needs of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics who are physically active or would like to be.
  • Team WILD:
    • Women Inspiring Life with Diabetes exists to support and inspire fitness, healthy living, and self-confidence for women of all ages with all types of diabetes. Through education, leading by example, community outreach, and sponsoring virtual teams of women training for athletic events, Team WILD demonstrates that having diabetes can be an inspiration rather than an obstacle to achieving one’s athletic and fitness goals.
  • Diabetes Training Camp
    • DTC is a unique clinical resource entirely devoted to diabetes, fitness, exercise, sports education and connecting with others who challenge Diabetes every day.
      DTC is for people diabetes who want to learn more about general fitness, lifestyle management, or who are athletes who want to take their triathlon or marathon training to the next level. They offer camps specialized for various fitness levels and goals. Camps are lead by coaches, educators and specialists, some of whom have diabetes themselves. They understand your needs as an athlete or just daily living with diabetes
    • DTC also supports and educates health care professionals interested in learning more about diabetes and exercise: If you are a health care professional, CDE’s, RD’s, diabetes nurse specialists, PA’s, pharmacists, fitness professionals, athletic trainers and want to learn more about counseling your patients with diabetes, DTC has a camp made just for you
  • JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes
    • The Ride to Cure Diabetes is an effort to support diabetes research via fundraising and participation in organized bicycling rides. Participants choose from one of five Ride locations and bike for their choice of distance (usually between 30 and 100+ miles) to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF). This organization provides coaches and guidance to help individuals train for their Ride; and in many communities across the US and Canada they have cycling groups whom you can train with on a regular basis. An excellent way to train and support a great cause at the same time!
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundati(JDRF)  
    • The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. They also offer support to individuals with Type 1 diabetes and their families (see “Life with Diabetes” tab on their website).  Many local JDRF chapters offer support or social groups of various types for children, teens, parents, and adults with Type 1 diabetes.
  • TuDiabetes
    • Realizing the power of a community when it comes down to a condition like Diabetes, TuDiabetes is a social networking group for people with diabetes. It has been described as ‘MySpace’ on insulin…”.
      TuDiabetes.com® is an Online Community where the members help each other out, educate each other, and share the steps they take every day to stay healthy while living with this very serious condition. They write blog posts, exchange ideas in discussion forums, share photos of ourselves and our loved ones and videos that we find useful and informative.
      People who have all types of diabetes, newly diagnosed and veterans alike, moms with gestational diabetes as well as parents of children with diabetes, no matter the ethnicity or nationality, are encouraged to join this on-line community.
  • Sport and Diabetes Group NW
    • SDGNW is a local group serving athletes with Type 1 diabetes in the Greater Seattle Area. They provide a venue to bring together adult Type 1 athletes, casual to professional, in an open and educational environment to learn and share with each other the challenges and benefits of being an active person with T1 diabetes. SDGNW hosts quarterly workshops in the Seattle area.
  • DiabetesNet.com     
    • Diabetesnet.com provides extensive diabetes information, the latest research findings and great discounts on diabetes products. Embedded within this site is the Diabetes Mall, a great resource for discounts on books, gram scales and many of your favorite blood glucose test strips.  This site also, has a diabetes forum hosted by diabetes experts, D’Buzz,, where people with diabetes can exchange ideas and find support.
  • Children with Diabetes
    • An online community for kids, families and adults with diabetes
  • American Diabetes Association
    • The ADA website has a great section for those with Type 2 diabetes entitled ‘Ideas for Exercise.” They also have some books for sale related to diabetes and exercise.
  • ConnecT1D
    • ConnecT1D is  an online resource where people affected by Type 1 Diabetes can discover and access events in their community, offer programs specific to the Type 1 Diabetes community and provide a place where the Type 1 community can connect to each other.
  • College Diabetes Network 
    • The College Diabetes Network (CDN) is a  non-profit organization, whose mission is to empower and improve the lives of students living with Type 1 diabetes through peer support and access to information and resources. CDN’s vision is to create a college community, which will enable students with Diabetes to thrive in all of their personal, healthcare, and scholastic accomplishments.
  • ACLS Health Library
    • A great list that provides links to a variety of diabetes-related topics, definitions of terms, interesting facts, suggestions for managing and coping with diabetes, and resources for finding professional guidance.

Books

  • Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook by Sheri Colberg
    • “Written by Dr. Sheri Colberg, a diabetic athlete with a PhD in exercise physiology, this book draws on the experiences of hundreds of diabetic athletes to provide the best advice for exercisers with type 1 and type 2 diabetes (and even type 1.5). Specific insulin advice is included for pump users and anyone on a basal/bolus insulin regimen (including Lantus, Levemir, Humalog, NovoLog/NovoRapid, and Apidra). It also has examples from hundreds of athletes with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, along with 10 profiles of elite and amateur athletes, from professional surfers to Iditarod dog mushers.”
  • Pumping Insulin by John Walsh and Ruth Roberts
    • A great resource for anyone who uses an insulin pump. Good information on a variety of topics, with one chapter specifically addressing exercise.
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By: Sally Hara