BRAIN GYM BENEFITS – MIX OF DAILY LIFE, WORK AND SPORTS SITUATIONS
Lifestyle strategies to promote healthy cognitive and physical aging are of great importance. Physical exercise has significant health benefits for body and mind in improving our general wellbeing. It contributes to preventing or reducing risk of developing diseases and other health issues often associated with aging. Physical activities help you also to stay fit, look good, be healthy, have more energy. For example, strength training helps to strengthen muscles and prevent osteoporosis, the cardiovascular training supports overall health, yoga maintains overall body strength and keeps you supple, balance exercises help to prevent falls and injuries associated with them. According to...
BRAIN BOOSTING EXERCISES
For many years you have known that physical exercises have long-term benefits to keep your body young, healthy and strong. Exercising improves your physical body condition by enhancing cardiovascular endurance, strengthening muscles, and building strong bones (weight-bearing exercise), flexibility, balance, and motor control (Christie, et al., 2017) (Damrongthai, et al., 2021). You have also known that a healthy and balanced lifestyle, consists of a wholesome nutrition, good sleep, and essential supplementation. But did you know that you could also exercise your brain to keep it young and boost its overall performance? Brain exercises are particularly important in e.g., strengthening your...
BRAIN GYM BENEFITS – MIX OF DAILY LIFE, WORK AND SPORTS SITUATIONS
Lifestyle strategies to promote healthy cognitive and physical aging are of great importance. Physical exercise has significant health benefits for the body and mind in improving our general wellbeing. It prevents or reduces risk of developing diseases and other health issues often associated with aging. Physical activities also help you to stay fit, look good, be healthy, and have more energy. For example, strength training helps to strengthen muscles and prevent osteoporosis, the cardiovascular training supports overall health, yoga maintains overall body strength and keeps you supple, and balance exercises help to prevent falls and injuries. According to the WHO,...
Cognitive Problem Solving Training
Cognition is a term related to acquiring knowledge and our mental functions involved in learning and understanding. It has its roots in Latin, the word ‘cognoscere’ meaning “to know, to learn” and is our ability to integrate and process new information and translate it into knowledge. We can process and absorb this new information, incorporate it in new knowledge, and make decisions based on what we experienced through a complex system of perception, feeling, knowing, thinking, and remembering. Cognitive processes To translate the knowledge into making decisions, we need a system of cognitive processes to help us interpret the world around us....