Discover Vively's innovative metabolic fitness feature, unveiled at the Aus Fitness Expo, that tracks exercise intensity and glucose levels for optimised workouts and improved overall health.

Key takeaways

• Vively's new feature allows users to track the relationship between heart rate and glucose levels during exercise, helping to fine-tune workouts and nutrition for better metabolic fitness.
• Users can experiment with exercise intensities, prevent overexertion, optimise nutrition and workout timing, stay motivated, and better understand food intake around workouts.
• Different exercise types and intensities impact glucose levels in various ways; Vively's app offers valuable insights into how workouts and nutrition affect metabolic fitness.
• Vively's approach to metabolic fitness focuses on adaptability, resilience, and overall well-being, promoting a sustainable long-term fitness journey.

Vively, a leading health and fitness app, is excited to announce its advanced metabolic fitness feature at the 2023 Aus Fitness Expo, Australia's biggest health and fitness event.

This feature monitors the connection between exercise intensity and glucose levels. It gives users the ability to adjust their workouts and nutrition to achieve better metabolic fitness and health.

How does the new exercise feature work?

Vively has introduced an innovative new feature that allows users to track the relationship between heart rate and glucose levels during exercise. The feature helps users better understand how optimising physical activity, heart rate, and glucose levels can promote metabolic fitness.

Heart rate data is gathered from the user’s wearable device to calculate exercise intensity. While their glucose data is collected from Vively’s continuous glucose monitor (CGM).

The new feature can help users to:

• Experiment with exercise intensities: by observing how their heart rate and glucose levels respond to different types of exercise and intensities, users can determine the most effective workout regime that suits their needs.
• Prevent overexertion: tracking heart rate can help users recognise when they are pushing their limits and when they may need to pull back their efforts.
• Optimise exercise timing: observing glucose fluctuations during exercise can help users to identify the best time of day for their workouts to maximise the benefits of exercise.
• Stay motivated to exercise: seeing their glucose and heart rate data in relation to their workouts, users can use this as a source of motivation to stay active in a way that suits their unique body.
• Experiment with food intake around their workouts: the feature allows users to track how their nutrition is impacting their glucose in relation to their workouts. The timing of nutrition can significantly impact your energy levels, performance and glucose levels.

How does exercise affect glucose levels?

Different exercise types and intensities impact glucose levels in various ways. By analysing the correlation between exercise intensity and glucose levels, the Vively app offers invaluable insights into fitness and nutrition.

Low-moderate intensity exercise

Low-moderate intensity exercise affects blood sugar levels by helping to lower and stabilise them. Your body's energy demand is relatively moderate, and it primarily relies on aerobic metabolism for energy. However, glucose is still utilised but at a slower rate compared to high-intensity exercise.

As you engage in low and moderate-intensity exercise, your muscles gradually use glucose from the bloodstream. Simultaneously, insulin sensitivity improves, allowing your muscle cells to absorb glucose more efficiently. The combined effect of glucose consumption by muscles and improved insulin sensitivity helps lower and stabilise blood glucose levels.

Low and moderate-intensity exercise performed regularly can have long-term benefits on glucose management. It can contribute to better glycaemic control, improved insulin sensitivity, and overall metabolic health. This makes low and moderate-intensity exercise an excellent choice for those looking to maintain healthy blood glucose levels.

High-intensity exercise

High-intensity workouts increase glucose levels in the body due to the body's demand for more energy during such exercise. When you engage in high-intensity workouts, your muscles require more energy to perform more demanding tasks. The body converts stored glycogen in the liver and muscles into glucose to meet energy demand. The glucose is then released into the bloodstream.

Additionally, during high-intensity workouts, the body releases stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones stimulate the liver to produce more glucose and release it into the bloodstream to fuel the muscles. This increase in glucose production and release is a natural response to the body's increased energy requirements during high-intensity exercise.

It is important to note that while high blood glucose levels may occur, these workouts can act to help improve insulin sensitivity and glucose management in the long run.

What is metabolic fitness?

Metabolic fitness is a key aspect of overall health, focused on improving factors such as weight, sleep, exercise, and recovery. By enhancing metabolic fitness, Vively helps users experience natural improvements in these areas. This can lead to an indirect yet positive impact on their ability to train and perform exercise.

Metabolic fitness is all about resilience and adaptability. An adaptable metabolism can respond effectively to environmental changes and varying demands.

Vively's approach to metabolic fitness is not conventional. Rather than just aiming for increased size, speed, and strength, it emphasises the importance of adaptability, flexibility, and resilience. The goal is to achieve sustainability in one's fitness journey.

The conventional "bigger, faster, stronger" philosophy often proves to be less sustainable, making it challenging to maintain regular high-intensity exercise over long periods. Such workouts may take a toll on one's health and motivation levels. However, Vively helps users build metabolic resilience, allowing them to engage in sustainable long-term exercise routines. This, in turn, increases the likelihood of adhering to a fitness plan for an extended period.

By prioritising metabolic fitness, Vively fosters a healthier and more sustainable approach to fitness, focusing on adaptability, resilience, and overall well being.

The Aus Fitness Expo

The Aus Fitness Expo, held at the International Convention Centre (ICC), is the ultimate event for personal trainers, gyms, fitness studios, and thousands of fitness enthusiasts. The introduction of Vively's metabolic fitness feature during this prestigious event showcases the app's dedication to improving users' health and wellbeing.

Vively's workout insights feature revolutionises how users approach their fitness routines by providing personalised information about the impact of exercise on glucose levels.

By understanding these connections, users can optimise their workouts and nutrition, leading to improved metabolic health and a fitter, healthier, and happier life.