SPORTS

PHYSICAL
EXERCISES &
BRAIN’S
FUNCTION
I. BOOST YOUR MEMORY Hippocampus:
 Playing an important role in saving
memory
 Navigating all activities
 Responding strongly to aerobics
exercises
Memory formation:
 Walking/ cycling helps new words to
stick

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N u m b e r o f m e m o ri z e d

Treadmill walking during vocabulary encoding improves verbal

long-term memory
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Resource: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25015595 3
 P.E bolsters divergent and
convergent thinking

II. FOSTER YOUR

CREATIVITY
Philosophy Literature Art

Friedrich Ernest Nathlie

Nietzsche, Hemingway, Provosty,
Immanuel Kathy Acker, Guido van
Kant, Henry Haruki der Werve
David Murakami and Cassils
“Sit as little as possible.” Thoreau and and Philip
Friedrich Nietzsche Jean-Jacques Roth
Rousseau

Resource: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-exercise-creative 4
 III. SLOW COGNITIVE
BLACK ORANGE

WHITE

DECLINE
PURPLE

YELLOW GREEN

RED BLUE

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III. Slow Cognitive Decline
 Keeping your brain healthy into old age
 Improving balance, coordination and agility

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THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
Resources:

• https://
www.sportsrec.com/406604-does-e
xercise-improve-memory.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/educa
tion/2016/jun/18/how-physical-exer
cise-makes-your-brain-work-better