Vigorous aerobics and interval training protect your brain....
Today's post: Monday, 10-20-2008
I got an email recently with the information that vigorous aerobics or cardio and interval training may reverse and can prevent declines in “executive function tasks” such as planning, scheduling, and the short term or working memory needed for everyday tasks and multi-tasking or switching easily and accurately between several tasks.
In the words of the researchers Drs. Arthur F. Kramer and Kirk I. Erickson, from the University of Illinois Beckman Institute, Urbana. , in the latest issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, “regular moderate physical activity, enough to make a person breathless.”
That’s exactly what vigorous cardio and interval training do. At times during your exercise session you push the pace enough to get slightly breathless or you would if you kept up that pace. In vigorous walking and interval training, that’s exactly what you do.
It has already been established that regular exercise releases a brain and nerve growth factor that causes your brain to grow new neurons.
These researchers tested a group of adults ages 60 to 75 who walked briskly for 45 minutes a day three days a week over a 6 month time period. They did increase their brain volume as we now know to expect. But they also tested as improving “their ability to perform executive function tasks - compared with a control group who engaged only in non-aerobic stretching and toning exercises.”
This means that you can prevent and to some extent reverse mental decline with regular and vigorous aerobics or cardio OR interval training.
We knew such exercise grows new brain cells. Thanks to these researchers, we now have evidence that doing such exercise regularly can help restore lost mental abilities or prevent them from declining. This is new. The new brain cells actually help you stay mentally sharp.
This is very good news indeed.
And, it has important implications for employers not just for individual people.
Today's post: Monday, 10-20-2008
I got an email recently with the information that vigorous aerobics or cardio and interval training may reverse and can prevent declines in “executive function tasks” such as planning, scheduling, and the short term or working memory needed for everyday tasks and multi-tasking or switching easily and accurately between several tasks.
In the words of the researchers Drs. Arthur F. Kramer and Kirk I. Erickson, from the University of Illinois Beckman Institute, Urbana. , in the latest issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, “regular moderate physical activity, enough to make a person breathless.”
That’s exactly what vigorous cardio and interval training do. At times during your exercise session you push the pace enough to get slightly breathless or you would if you kept up that pace. In vigorous walking and interval training, that’s exactly what you do.
It has already been established that regular exercise releases a brain and nerve growth factor that causes your brain to grow new neurons.
These researchers tested a group of adults ages 60 to 75 who walked briskly for 45 minutes a day three days a week over a 6 month time period. They did increase their brain volume as we now know to expect. But they also tested as improving “their ability to perform executive function tasks - compared with a control group who engaged only in non-aerobic stretching and toning exercises.”
This means that you can prevent and to some extent reverse mental decline with regular and vigorous aerobics or cardio OR interval training.
We knew such exercise grows new brain cells. Thanks to these researchers, we now have evidence that doing such exercise regularly can help restore lost mental abilities or prevent them from declining. This is new. The new brain cells actually help you stay mentally sharp.
This is very good news indeed.
And, it has important implications for employers not just for individual people.
Labels: aerobics, cardio, fitness in the workplace, interval training, prevent mental decline, protect your brain, stay mentally sharp
posted by David at 12:51 PM
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