How Exercise Improves The Brain
[ad_1] Exercise will make you stronger and fitter. According to the latest scientific research it will also make you smarter. We’ve had research that showed combat moves help raise your cognitive fitness and even turn back the biological clock of your…
How Exercise Can Reduce Stress And Help You Lose Weight
When it comes to reducing stress and losing weight, exercise has been a key go-to route. In the United Kingdom, for example, General Practitioners routinely prescribe exercise as a means of treating depression, amongst other conditions, and finding a way…
How To Exercise Twice a Day
Working out twice a day sounds like one of those solutions to the problem of fitness that is theoretically possible but practically improbable. We all think that if we could train twice a day we’d get fitter, stronger and healthier twice as fast. Fitting…
Running And Building Muscles
Most people go through their physical training life thinking that running and big muscles are completely incompatible. The popular images that support this misconception come from media reports that show musclebound bodybuilders only engage in lifting…
The Best Time Of The Day To Exercise
In looking for the best time of the day to exercise we are really looking to answer the question “How can I achieve more with less effort?” This is both natural from a human perspective and desirable from an evolutionary one. If we can, somehow, get more…
Running on a Treadmill vs Running Outside
When it comes to running on a treadmill the one question that really matters is: how close is it to running outside? Hardcore runners who don’t ever go near a treadmill have maintained that there is a distinct difference which makes treadmill running not…
How to Age Gracefully
[ad_1] Healthy ageing and longevity are distinct from each other. Of those of us who end up living a long life at least a third appear to have inherited the trait from our ancestors.[1] To some extent, obviously, there is an overlap in the two that stems…
How To Best Use Exercise To Relieve Anxiety and Depression
Let’s start with a truism: if you don’t feel some anxiety, an enhanced sense of uncertainty about the future or, even, a little bit of depression in this early part of the 21st century the chances are that you’re not quite human. The external world is…
The Difference Between Walking, Jogging and Running
The difference between walking, jogging and running hinges on two very specific, related things: energy cost and muscle load. Basically walking, jogging and running are ways we transport our body from one place to another, under our own muscle power.…
Exercise Intensity Effect on Brain Function
[ad_1] Exercise is medicine. It helps the brain get smarter as well as the body get stronger. It improves the brain and it helps in learning and the development of new networks in the brain. New research[1] coming from the Functional Neuroimaging Group,…