On the rock wall on the banks of the Alphes River in Greece, there is a motto engraved， sports fitness:
"If you want to be smart, run; if you want to be strong, run; if you want to be healthy, run."
Exercise is the best way to improve yourself.
Exercising not only can exercise our body, but also exercise our mind.
A "Human Brain Project" led by Harvard University has found in research that:
Persistent exercise can significantly increase the number of nerve fibers and dendrites in the brain, promote brain development, and improve memory.
He also wrote the book "Exercise Transforms the Brain" on the relationship between the brain and exercise, which has swept the world.
There is a saying that goes well: exercise is to take the most advanced growth path at the lowest cost.
It not only strengthens our body, but also has many benefits for our brain. From Song Ci master Su Dongpo to famous dramatist Bernard Shaw.
Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign, many celebrities, have a soft spot for sports.
The thinker Lu Jun also said: "Walking promotes my thinking, my body must keep moving, and my brain will be activated."
When the thought enters a dead end, stop the thinking and let the body move, the brain often opens another door, making people suddenly enlightened.
So did the pianist Beethoven.
After lunch, he used to go out for a walk with a pencil and a stack of paper, sometimes until dusk.
For Beethoven, walking is a conversation with God, a communion with nature, a moment of inspiration at any time.
Once, he and his friends were walking together.
As he walked, he was suddenly immersed in his own thoughts and thought.
Until night fell, Beethoven suddenly slapped his forehead in surprise: "I found the theme!"
Then he flew home and played a new movement on the piano.
You see, exercise not only reaps the vitality of the body, but also gives a better exercise in the mind.
Actually this is not an exception.
In 1990, a famous biologist did such an experiment:
After six months of aerobic exercise in a group of people who usually do not like sports, their thinking ability has improved significantly.
When this conclusion was published in the journal "Nature", more scholars did related research and the results showed that:
Exercise does increase the efficiency of the nervous system and makes you smarter.
Because when we are exercising, blood circulation is improved, more oxygen enters the brain, the working environment of the brain is improved, and the thinking is naturally more agile.
What's more, when we exercise, our body will produce a neurotransmitter that can bring energy and motivation - dopamine.
It is like a bridge connecting brain nerve cells. The more secretion, the wider the bridge deck, and the more information that can flow.
Therefore, after exercising, people often feel clear thinking and quick brain response.
No wonder the writer Goethe once sighed:
"My most precious thoughts, and their best expressions, come when I take a walk."
Exercise broadens our minds, gets our energy flowing, and makes our brains more active.
Many people may not know that Lu You, who wrote "Still healthy at 80, learns to live in the garden", wrote countless poems in his life and handed down more than 9,000 poems, is also a beneficiary of the movement.
In the army, he learned martial arts; in the countryside, he mowed grass and collected firewood.
When outdoors, mountain climbing is one of his hobbies.
In his later years, he chose "Chang Xiao" to exercise again.
The hobby of sports has given Lu You a good physique.
He died at the age of 84 in a time when the army was in chaos and the food and clothing were difficult.
The movement also gave him a strong concentration to create poems with high output and high quality, occupying an important position in the poetry circle of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Author Leo Tolstoy said:
"It's a very painful thing for a person who is buried in mental work, if he doesn't move his limbs often."
Exercise is the best way to strengthen the brain.
With proper exercise, our body will secrete a substance called adrenaline, which can help us find the best state of attention.
Researchers at the University of Illinois in the United States conducted a series of tests on 20 9-year-old students.
They found that students who had just participated in physical activity were more attentive when answering questions than students who had not participated in physical activity.
This is also confirmed by the "zero-hour sports program" implemented at a middle school near Chicago.
Have students do physical activity until their heart rate reaches 70% of their VO2 max before formal classes.
At this time, the class started, and the effect was obviously improved, and everyone's concentration was significantly improved.
No wonder in the TV series "Ideal City", the heroine Su Xiao often thinks while skipping rope when she encounters a bottleneck in her work.
It is worth noting that adrenaline is very "hypocritical".
Too little secretion can make people feel bored and even tired;
Excessive secretion will make people overexcited and unable to calm down to do things.
Only when the right amount of adrenaline is secreted and our brains are at the tipping point of relaxation and tension can our attention be at its best.
Scientific exercise, mastering the degree of exercise, maximizes our concentration, so that we can listen, sit and learn well in everything we learn.
Many people feel this way:
With the increase of age, the memory gradually becomes worse and worse, and the mental state is also increasingly sluggish.
And Dr. Paul Lopri, head of the Movement and Memory Laboratory at the University of Mississippi, through tracking experiments, has concluded:
Both moderate-intensity and high-intensity aerobic training can improve short-term and long-term memory in ordinary people.
As long as you can keep running for 15 minutes for a long time, the effect will be obvious.
For the experiment, he selected 24 participants between the ages of 18 and 35.
Ask them to memorize 15 complex new words of the same difficulty before running, during running, and after running.
The final results showed that after the participants completed 15 minutes of moderate-intensity running, their memory improved significantly.
In recent years, more and more people have found that "motivation quotient" is very helpful to our memory.
Some people have studied and summarized the dynamics of the top students in the college entrance examination in recent years, and found that nearly 60% of the top students love sports.
Professor Wang Zongping, director of Nanjing University of Science and Technology's Business Research Center, put forward the view that "business motivation stimulates the top scorer in the college entrance examination":
"It is no exaggeration to say that it was the top students in the college entrance examination who liked sports who took 1 hour out of 10 hours of cultural study for sports, which activated their bodies.
Let the blood flow faster, the spirit is fuller, and the learning efficiency is higher. "
Exercise stimulates the hippocampus, a key brain area that affects learning and memory, and increases serotonin.
Serotonin can effectively stimulate the communication of neurons, feedback to the hippocampus, and promote the formation and enhancement of new memories.
There have also been reports from abroad that:
"Those who exercised regularly had a 2 percent increase in hippocampus volume compared to their sedentary peers."
Therefore, don't have the idea of "valuing the intellect over the body", and don't think that whether a person is smart or not is born.
Plato once said:
"In order for mankind to have a successful life, God has provided two means—education and exercise."
Today, more and more people combine these two methods to create amazing results.
Try to move, I believe you will also reap different surprises.
Lv Zhengcao, the former Minister of Railways, who can play tennis in his 80s and is light and agile, said:
"Every department of the human body is used, it is advanced, and it is not used, it is retreated.
Therefore, we should not only pay attention to exercise the body, but also pay attention to the activity of the brain, so as to effectively delay aging. "
Exercise itself is a healing.
When the sweat flows, all the fatigue is cured, the mind is clear, and the mood is happy.
1. When you are in a bad mood, just put on your running shoes and go
Looking back on life, we will find that when we stay in the thought of solving a problem for a long time, it is easy to have a blocked state.
It is said that "people who can rest will work", but rest does not mean doing nothing in a narrow sense.
Changing the environment for the brain, using the brain is also a healthy brain.
Temporarily put aside what you are doing and exercise a bit, it will make your mind clear, and maybe there will be innovative discoveries.
For example, choosing sports that require quick responses can help us build good hand-eye coordination;
Similar to table tennis, badminton and other sports, you also need to stay calm and focus on the exercise, which can let the brain get enough relaxation.
Therefore, after the exercise, the wall of thinking will no longer be so indestructible, and it will even "turn a corner" and have new ideas.
2. When you are in a bad mood, move consciously
Scientist Einstein said:
"I have loved walking all my life, and sports bring me endless joy."
Because the dopamine, adrenaline, serotonin, etc. produced during exercise can not only enhance our memory, improve our thinking ability, make us more focused, but also make our mood happy.
Therefore, after proper exercise, when we work, we will feel inner peace, clear thinking, and even a happy sense of accomplishment.
The so-called: "The activities are well-rounded, and the five internal organs are in harmony."
When you are in a bad mood, consciously get yourself moving, go for a walk, go to the park.
Let these substances produced in the body mobilize our positive emotions, so that we have a better state, so as to do more with less.
Exercise is not only an indispensable way to maintain health, but also allows the brain to exercise, which makes our life different.
If you have mistaken Mayo, don't lose peach blossoms again.
Go out, now is the best time.
Click "Watching", let's move together, take some time in the rush, and set aside some energy in the rush.
Under the tempering of life, the body is treated kindly by time, and the brain is getting smarter and smarter.
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