CARDIOVASCULAR EXERCISE (& NOT JUST ZONE 2) IS A POTENT COGNITIVE ENHANCER IN THE HOURS AFTER THE EXERCISE IS DONE; RESISTANCE TRAINING, FAR LESS SO • - Recently, I’ve been doing a review of the relationship between exercise and brain function and health. There’s a lot there, but one of the main themes to emerge is that cardiovascular exercise really seems to enhance cognitive function in the hours after the exercise is finished. - This effect is not observed to nearly the same degree after resistance training. Of course, both are very important to do. I make it a point to do two or three sessions of each, every week. (The specifics of that routine are available at hubermanlab.com at no cost whatsoever to access. Simply put “foundational fitness protocol” into the search function. It’s there as a PDF Newsletter). - One important note, however, is that if you exhaust yourself with exercise, you can be sure that your brain will not function as well in the hours after. Even if you hydrate and eat well. And since most of us are not paid to exercise, but rather need to rely on other means to make a living, it’s often useful to keep a little bit of gas in the tank and not push to 10 out of 10 workouts every time or to save those for when you don’t have to do cognitively demanding work afterwards. - All that said, I’m curious what your experience is. - Let me know in the comments. There may just be a study in the works, and it would be fun to incorporate some of the more prominent questions you have into the structure of that study. - Meanwhile, please put any questions or comments or suggestions about future topics that you’d like me to cover on the Huberman Lab podcast in the comments section below this post. - And as always, thank you for your interest in science! - @hubermanlab @stanford.med @stanford - #neuroscience #science #ciencia #exercise #cardio #lift #think #learn