Take a Walk and Increase Your Workout Intensity
Make walking a habit. Walking is an exercise that helps reduce and maintain your blood sugar levels. Be more deliberate about taking the stairs, walking your dog, carrying out your errands on foot (if you can), and go for a weekend bike ride. Even a brief break during the day to go for a stroll might add up. 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity exercise is your goal.
Exercise is an excellent approach to improve your body’s blood sugar control, but doing a heart-pumping workout will assist even more.
A 2022 review in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice [2] found that high-intensity interval training (HIIT), which involves sprinting for 30 seconds on the treadmill, followed by walking or slowly jogging until you recover, reduced blood glucose levels, especially in patients with impaired glucose. Exercise causes muscles to absorb glucose, which they then use as fuel. The more intense motions may facilitate this process even more.