{"id":11747,"date":"2016-03-02T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:23:09","slug":"camosun-exercise-is-medicine-club-joins-fight-against-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/03\/02\/camosun-exercise-is-medicine-club-joins-fight-against-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Exercise is Medicine club joins fight against diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun College is offering a new club that focuses on how exercise can help those living with type 1 and 2 two diabetes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called Exercise is Medicine, and club founder Hannah Flahr, who is also a Sport and Fitness Leadership student, says that the club filled up fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiabetes is on the rise, and the effect of exercise on diabetes is really prominent in the research right now. It\u2019s widely researched across Canada and the world,\u201d says Flahr. \u201cSo rather than create a program for kids or some athletes, we thought, \u2018Why don\u2019t we create a program for a chronic disease?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Exercise is Medicine program facilitator and Sport and Fitness Leadership student Melissa Rollin says that they have learned a lot about the impact exercise has on diabetes, and they\u2019re eager to share that information.<\/p>\n

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Members of Camosun\u2019s Exercise is Medicine club offer their services at the college\u2019s Interurban campus (photo by Jill Westby\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIn our class, we learned all about the effect that exercise has on diabetes, both type 1 and type 2, so we\u2019re bringing that information and resources from Diabetes Canada into the sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Flahr, each session begins with a 15-minute talk on diabetes education, followed by 45 minutes of circuit training and body-weight exercises.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about six to 10 exercises,\u201d says Rollin. \u201cWe have additional dumbbells that they can grab if they want more weight, and when you do it in a circuit style like that, you\u2019re doing your resistance training, but you\u2019re not stopping. It\u2019s cardio, so it\u2019s getting the blood flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

All volunteers in the club are Camosun students. Rollin says posters and sign-up forms were taken to various gyms throughout the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of us students knew doctors, so we would bring the poster with the registration information to the doctors office\u00c9 it was advertised widely in the community so that we would have lots of different people. Throughout our program, people who work at Camosun have opportunities to pair up with students to get trained, so we wanted to make sure that the whole community would be involved as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rollin says it is rewarding to watch people with diabetes, many of whom have lived relatively sedentary lives, get moving again.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really nice to see that we\u2019re putting something out there that is the kick in the butt that somebody needed, and we\u2019re there for them to help them through this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rollin tells one story of one of the group members saying he was \u201callergic to exercise,\u201d but then realizing during a session that it actually felt good to be moving.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to see that they\u2019re growing and the exercise is sparking an interest and a passion in them,\u201d says Rollin.<\/p>\n

She does admit, however, that it\u2019s sometimes a challenge to find what she calls \u201cadaptations\u201d to the exercises in order to cater to everyone\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have different heights for the steps, different weights, just to make sure everybody is moving. And with so many of us there, we can all brainstorm and just try and think of a different exercise that will stimulate the same muscle group, so that everybody can keep moving through each exercise as a circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Exercise is Medicine is being offered at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence at Interurban campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 7 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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