3 Ways Exercise Boosts Brain Power

The best news about your brain is that you can boost brain power at any age.

Studies on adults over 50 have shown that aerobic and resistance training improve the health of your brain regardless of your current state of health.

Three ways exercise boosts your brain:

1. Aerobic exercise has a significant impact on cognitive abilities. In other words, your ability to pay attention to the right things, problem solve, and learn from experience.
2. Resistance training improves executive function, memory and working memory. Executive function is like the brain’s CEO. It includes self-control, flexible thinking and managing emotions. Working memory is how you process information to complete tasks while memory includes short and long-term storage.
3. All physical activity protects brain function. New research has shown that exercise protects the brain’s ability to shut off certain areas while others are working. Your brain is made up of networks that are constantly communicating. They are active at different times and a sign of a healthy brain is the ability to switch between networks. Exercise improves the brain’s ability to switch off some networks while others are active.

There is enough evidence to prescribe exercise to improve brain health.

To improve brain function with aerobic and resistance training do 45-60 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise. To protect brain function any activity will make a difference.

Change your mind, change your health,

Shayla