EXERCISE AS A WAY TO ACCESS NEUROPLASTICITY • - Exercise has many benefits: cardiovascular health, neuromuscular health, metabolism, aesthetic changes, brain health, mental health, and on and on. Exercise even makes your food taste better. That’s a real thing. - One of the best supported, but lesser discussed virtues of exercise is that it can impact your brain’s ability to self modify, so-called adaptive neuroplasticity. This process resides at the heart of all forms of learning- both cognitive and physical. - Numerous studies show that people remember and learn things better in the hours after exercise. Most of the data on this are for cardiovascular exercise, but there are growing number of studies suggesting this is the case after resistance training too. (Obviously if you completely exhaust yourself training, learning is going to be harder afterwards.) - It’s abundantly clear that everybody should get both cardiovascular and resistance training in each week. Both both have distinct and overlapping benefits. 2-4days of each is generally agreed upon as the target for most people (depending on your goals and recovery). - For a zero cost program that offers various options you can go to hubermanlab.com and enter “Foundational Fitness Protocol” into the search function. There is no sign-up required to access and again it’s zero cost. You can see all the sets and reps, options to replace types of training etc. It’s merely one template you customize. I happens to be what I do amidst a very busy schedule and I have fairly low recovery quotient. So I think it can be useful but do what’s best for you! - Final point is that **exercise opens the gate to plasticity but you still have to actively try and learn new things**. So in addition to all of its other wonderful benefits, consider exercise an entry point to a temporarily heightened learning CAPACITY that takes place in the hours afterwards. - Please put any questions you have in the comments section below this post and as always, thank you for your interest in science! - @hubermanlab @stanford.med @stanford - -#neuroscience #science #ciencia #neurociencia #learn #exercise #neuroplasticity