How to train your body's reaction speed?

The human body is a complex and highly coordinated organization, and all people's actions need to be coordinated under the unified command of the brain. The speed at which various parts of the body react to commands from the brain is also considered an important indicator of people's physical health. For people with slow reaction speed, it is very important to improve their response speed. Let's take a look at how to train your body's reaction speed.

Train your eyes and reactions : Hold a coin with your fingers spread out to form a V shape. Your friend puts the coin above the V shape and then drops it. You need to quickly hold it. There are also spot-the-difference games that can exercise hand-eye speed. Logical reaction training: This is more difficult and can be trained through brain teasers, detective reasoning games, and guessing riddles are also helpful.

Practice standing on one leg or doing horse stance. Keeping the body in a stable posture can exercise the whole body's coordination and sense of balance, which is the basis for improving reaction ability, but older people should use it with caution. Alternate between fast and slow movements to train your muscles. Muscles can control the speed and strength of human movements. By alternating fast and slow movements and repeated practice, we can develop the muscles' "motor memory", such as alternating fast and slow running, and speeding up and slowing down dumbbell exercises. Kicking shuttlecock and skipping rope can help you develop coordination. Lu Yifan said that kicking shuttlecock can not only exercise the reaction ability of the brain and eyes, but also train the coordination and balance of the limbs. Compared with shuttlecock, skipping rope is a more intense exercise. It can enhance heart and brain functions and exercise the brain's flexibility and coordination. At the moment of jumping up by shaking the rope, all limbs are controlled by the brain to ensure that the number of times the arms shake the rope is consistent with the number of jumps, which exercises the brain's reaction ability. But be aware that jumping puts a great impact on the knee and ankle joints, so wear elastic shoes to protect the joints.

Aerobic exercise improves cognition. Relatively speaking, soothing and safe aerobic exercises such as jogging and brisk walking are very suitable for the elderly to maintain and improve their reaction ability. Aerobic exercise can coordinate the limbs, activate the cerebellum, and improve the speed of cognition and information processing. Just walking three times a week for 50 minutes each time can make your reactions sharper.

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