HOW MEDICATIONS AFFECT EXERCISE

You, or someone you know might be on medications. It might be for cholesterol, blood pressure and/or blood sugar. However, each one of these medications changes the body in powerful ways. And along with that goes your response to exercise.

Unfortunately, guidance on how medications affect exercise is very vague, like “just listen to your body.”

But the truth is that each class of medications has its own mechanism of action, and there are specific ways in which they affect your exercise. We’ll break it down here.