This review was planned to determine and investigate the importance of exercise and barriers to exercise in diabetic individuals, and studies on exercise and barriers to exercise in diabetic individuals were analyzed. According to the results found, motivation, income and social status of the individual, education level, working conditions, access to health services, living environment (physical environment), green space, urban life, perceived degree of difficulty during exercise, fatigue, lack of time, television and similar distracting habits, availability of facilities to perform exercise, disease or other accompanying health problems, It was determined that boring exercise, insufficient motivation and energy, obesity, insufficient support in activity participation, fear of injury, embarrassment, cultural differences, climatic conditions, limited number of activities due to lack of safe places, incomplete information, hypoglycemia that may develop during exercise and lack of information on hypoglycemia management were important barriers to exercise participation and sustainability in diabetic individuals. Diabetes treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach. Emphasizing the importance of active life by all health disciplines in patients who are diagnosed and followed up is important in terms of gaining the habit of physical activity or exercise. For this reason, units under the name of diabetes physiotherapy, such as diabetes nurses, should be established in health facilities and individual-specific exercise recommendations should be given by physiotherapists who have a good command of the field and who have developed themselves in this field. We believe that by establishing physiotherapy units in primary health care facilities, the need for physiotherapy in secondary and tertiary health care facilities can be reduced.