Get in step with your fitness personality: expert
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Having trouble sticking to your exercise regimen? Maybe you’re not doing the right exercises for your “fitness personality,” suggests Linda Shelton, a fitness expert who spoke at this year’s American College of Sports Medicine’s Health and Fitness Summit held last weekend in Atlanta.
“Everyone has a fitness personality; their own exercise needs,” Shelton told Reuters Health. Most people fail to stick with an exercise regimen, she said, because they are not exercising according to their fitness personality.
In her work, Shelton has identified five distinct fitness personality types, which she labels squares, rectangles, triangles, circles and squigglies—each has its own pitfalls.
Diabetes-related stress may affect blood sugar
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Adults with type 2 diabetes appear to have better blood sugar control when they report less diabetes-related stress and feel more satisfied with their treatment regimen, study findings suggest.
By contrast, men and women feeling greater diabetes-related distress had more complications and less optimal blood sugar control, Dr. Takehiro Nozaki and colleagues report in the journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine.
These findings highlight, for both patients and clinicians, the importance of understanding that “psychological aspects concerning diabetes treatment influence glycemic control,” Nozaki told Reuters Health.
