What are some exercises to train your brain?

Exercise not only keeps you fit, but also exercises your brain, improves your memory and boosts your intelligence. For example, dancing can coordinate the hands and feet and mobilize multiple neural functions of the brain; for another example, swimming can increase blood flow in the brain. Increased blood supply is beneficial to the metabolism of nerve cells and promotes the development of nerve cells. However, it should be noted that some exercises are not suitable for people with high blood pressure, heart disease and other diseases, and may cause serious consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to choose appropriate exercise programs based on personal circumstances. Proper exercise is not only good for the brain, but also can help you lose weight, enhance immunity and make you younger.

"Regular aerobic exercise combined with complex exercises that require certain skills can best train the brain." Researchers said that regular aerobic exercise includes brisk walking, jogging, swimming, cycling, yoga, etc. These exercises can make our mood peaceful and happy and keep us away from the trouble of insomnia. If you can stick to low-intensity aerobic exercise for 30-40 minutes four times a week, after 16 weeks, the time it takes for people who never exercised before to fall asleep will be shortened by half, and the total sleep time will be extended by 1 hour. This can increase the levels of brain chemicals related to cognitive functions such as memory and attention, thereby improving cognitive function. Sticking to regular aerobic exercise can give you flashes of inspiration while you’re working, and good ideas will flow in endlessly.

Complex sports that require certain skills, including ball games, jazz dance, Latin dance, etc., require coordination of multiple parts of the body and help exercise the brain's control. When doing these sports, you often need to use your brain to think. For example, when pitching, a baseball player needs to think about how to use subtle arm movements to throw a variety of unpredictable balls. Dancers not only need to move their bodies, but also inject emotions, and every look and expression must be designed. In darts, the left and right hemispheres of the brain work closely together, and the eyes, heart, and hands are coordinated.

Eating more brain-boosting foods can also make people smarter. For example, nuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which promote the development of nerve cells and are the first choice for brain-enhancing foods. Animal offal, which contains more unsaturated fatty acids than meat, is also a very good brain-boosting food. Deep-sea fish, shrimp and seaweed are all very good foods and should be eaten more by adults and children alike.