Does exercise improve brain power?
Many exercisers claim that after exercise they are able to think more clearly. Many non-exercisers, on the other hand, can’t relate to this viewpoint because anytime they have attempted to exercise they have come home feeling exhausted and unable to function normally. In fact, both groups are right. There certainly is some scientific evidence to support the claim that exercise can improve a person’s ability to think more clearly. But, there is also evidence to show that fatigue and over-training will not help the brain. In fact, exercising to exhaustion really has little benefit in any sense and is more likely to take you one step forward but two steps back. Exercise has been found to trigger elevated mood states and an overall improved sense of well-being and helps to keep stress, anxiety and depression to a minimum. Now a new study has shown that exercise can also have some short-term benefits on mental fitness. Phillip Tomporowski, an exercise scientist at the University of Georgia
