3 Tips for a Sharper Mind and Sculpted Body


Use it or lose it.




3 Practical Daily Tips to Improve Your Brain and Muscle Plasticity:

1. Be super smart and exercise your heart

Exercise 1: 15 minutes daily brisk walking or jogging

Cardiovascular activity not only helps us to be physically fit and prevent cardiovascular disease, but it also promotes neuronal growth and helps us get smarter. Kinesiology Professor Charles Hillman from Illinois University found that when you exercise your heart, you also improve your BDNF levels, a protein the enhances neuronal growth improving our cognitive abilities.

2. Brain plasticity and movement

Exercise 2: From a standing position, start clapping your hands and tapping your feet for twenty seconds. Then, pick up some light hand weights and alternate raising your opposite arm and leg for 2 minutes.

Muscles don’t move by themselves; they need specific sections of the brain to help them move. Motor circuits are the networks of nerve cell connections that enable us to perform the full range of our daily movements. Challenge your brain with movement. If you move two muscle groups at once you need to think about it right? You will also be using more brain areas.

3. Agility and balance exercises

Exercise 3: From a standing position, raise one leg up and toss an object into the air, like a tennis ball or a sponge. Catch it ten times then change legs.
Agility and balance are two of the most important daily activities to enhance our brain muscle connection. When we age, we see how we are not as agile or balanced as before.

Use it or lose it. Challenge that beautiful brain of yours and get ready to feel like never before. Life is about choices and this tips should be on top of your list.



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