Fitness Exercises for Increased Brain Power

Exercises Do More Than Promote Physical Fitness; Exercises Can Make Us SmarterLately we have learned that physical fitness exercise increases brain power, which until now would not have made much sense. The brain is locked within our heads and we really can't exercise our heads. We can move our heads with neck rolls, but those are for the neck.Therefore, the concept of brain enhancing exercise is really quite a revelation when we "think" about it, subtle humor intended.
�We always knew that physical fitness exercise would make us physically fit and therefore more healthy. Next, we realized that physical fitness exercise could make us feel mentally more alert and better organized.Still, brain power? Who would associate exercise with brain power? In fact, if we associated exercise with brain power, then why have athletes forever been described disparagingly as "dumb jocks," and so forth?Even just a decade ago, if someone discussed performing physical fitness exercises with a purpose to increase brain power, many among us would have scoffed, even so-called fitness buffs.But the people who today speak of brain boosting exercises aren't just fitness coaches and aerobics class leaders. Doctors and scientists are in the lead when they declare that exercise increases brain power.Let's make it clear that we aren't talking exclusively about gains in IQ, Intelligence Quotient. We're exploring ways to take our existing IQs and put them to fuller use. Furthermore, when we assert that physical fitness exercise increases brain power, we also are speaking of endurance, or methods to maintain our functional brain power longer in life. In other words, physical fitness exercise today can help prevent or delay dementia or Alzheimer's in our future. Who would have thunk it?Dr. John J. Ratey, Harvard University clinical psychiatry professor, wrote "A User's Guide to the Brain." Ratey asserts that exercise increases our "capacity to master new information and remember old information." This happens, he explains, because "physical movements call upon many of the same neurons used for reading, writing and math."Fitness Exercises for Increased Brain Power

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