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Grip Strength, Resistance Training and Type 2 Diabetes

Discover how low muscular strength is related to increased cardiometabolic risk, including type 2 diabetes; learn about how normalized grip strength cut-points can predict increased cardiometabolic risk and type 2 diabetes in different age groups; and find out about the effectiveness of acute…

About this course

This course was developed using content from ACSM’s 2023 From Around the Field webinar series.

What you will learn

  • Discuss the relationship between normalized muscular strength and cardiometabolic risk, including type 2 diabetes.
  • Explain how normalized grip strength can be used to predict cardiometabolic risk in adolescents and young adults and type 2 diabetes in apparently healthy adults.
  • Examine the effectiveness of a single bout and long-term use of resistance training to improve cardiometabolic risk factors in people with type 2 diabetes.

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