Have you been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes?

If you have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and are between the ages of 40 and 65 years, this project may be for you. Participants will visit KSU on four separate occasions and participate in one of two at home 16-week exercise interventions. Participants will receive a Fitbit watch, $100 gift card and TRX suspension system. Participants must:

Be between 40 and 65 years of age.
Have been diagnosed with T2DM.
Not take insulin injections.
Glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C) is a minimum 6.0%.
Have a willingness to participate in either intervention.

Informed Consent Form
Physician's Clearance Form

Here's what to expect at the KSU Exercise Physiology Lab

Visit 1:

Cardiovascular markers: resting heart rate and blood pressure, and your heart rate variability, a marker of your involuntary nervous system activity, for a 10-minute period in a quiet, dimly lit room.

Visit 1

Your resting glucose regulation and lipid profile will be taken through finger sticks in a fasted condition. A two-hour glucose tolerance test will be taken along with lipid profile.

Visit 2

Consume 75mg Glucose drink within 2 minutes.

Glucose Drink

30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours

30 min

Visit 2:

Body Comp

Kliszczewicz

Within two weeks of this visit, you will be asked to arrive at the Exercise Physiology Lab in order obtain information regarding your body composition.

Intervention

Intervention 1 (bodyweight circuit), Intervention 2 (aerobic exercise)

Visits 1 and 2 will be repeated at the end of the 16 weeks

Participants Will Receive

A Fitbit watch, $100 gift card and TRX suspension system.

Fitbit

Where We're Located

Exercise Physiology Lab
520 Parliament Garden Way NW,
Kennesaw, GA 30144

Dr. Brian Kliszczewicz

Dr. Kliszczewicz is a tenured professor in the department of Exercise Science and Sport Management at Kennesaw State University.

His current line of research is cardiovascular and metabolic stress with a sub-emphasis on body composition variables as they relate to acute and long-term exercise.

The evaluation of cardiovascular stress (via Heart Rate Variability) and metabolic stress (via Glucose, Insulin, Catecholamines...) following acute bouts of exercise provides important insight to exercise appropriateness and effectiveness. The evaluation of these markers over long-term exercise interventions allows for the assessment of exercise effectiveness and adaptation. The evaluation of body composition beyond simple measure of body fat, provides much needed insight into variables that lead to metabolic and cardiovascular responses to acute and chronic exercise.

Initial assessments performed in our lab evaluated high-intensity exercise in relatively healthy and active individuals.

Findings of these studies have led to the current federally funded gran, examining exercise in patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Education:
M.S., University of Florida 2010
PhD., Auburn University 2013

Email: Bkliszcz@kennesaw.edu

Phone: 315-415-6609