I was reading a super interesting article recently that talked about exercising 2x+ a week and it's benefits for improving cognitive function.
This is really interesting to me because I'm fascinated both with fitness and with reading and acquiring new skills.
It turns out that exercising regularly has profound benefits within the brain. 1 Major benefit that I like is the improvement of certain motor skills.
Motor skills like learning an instrument, playing a sport, or even a video game - anything that requires some level of hand-eye coordination.
Working out regularly can help you attain these new skills and keep building upon them as well. Another great benefit of working out regularly is short-term and long-term memory "organization."
If you've ever had your house in a mess, then you know how inefficient disorganization is - when you can't find stuff in a regular place, then you're just constantly wasting countless minutes and hours looking for simple things that should take seconds to locate.
Working out is kind of like that for your brain - it can help you declutter your mind and can make it easier to recall pieces of information.
All of this is really interesting stuff and there's tons of new research coming out to support these cognitive claims as well as other benefits of working out like ATP advancements and more!!
I hope to share some of these whenever I read about them in my studies!!!