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Originally Posted by amywah
I read somewhere that with PCOS you need 60-90 minutes hardcore cardio 6 days a week with PCOS to lose weight.
1:Have you found this to be true?
2: What do you do as your cardio?
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Question 1:
I agree. The reasoning for it is that cardio helps you balance your blood sugar and a lot of women with PCOS have insulin resistance as well.
How is this case? In simple terms, when you have insulin resistance, it means that your pancreas is not producing the right amount of insulin to send to your bloodstream to handle the glucose that's hanging out there (and the glucose is there because you've been eating food).
Exercise (cardio) helps you burn off the glucose so that you can help your insulin.
The whole body/exercise/insulin/glucose link is much more complicated than this, but that's it in a nutshell.
There are other side effects of exercise that help women with PCOS too -- depression and other mood stuff can be helped by exercise.
Question 2:
I do spinning 2 times a week now and I ride my bicycle two times a week. I do Pilates (strength training) 2 times a week.
When I ride my bicycle, we are riding 20 miles or 50 miles and that is usually 1 hour and 15 minutes (20 miles) or 3 hours and half (50 miles) of cardio.
I feel great when I do this much exercise. I don't do it to lose weight, because my weight loss is only affected by what I EAT, not how much I exercise.