11/01/2022
Exercise is the most important thing you can do to make your brain work better.
In fact, that's what John Ratey, MD, an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a world-renowned expert in Neuropsychiatry, says.
In his best-selling book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, Ratey talks about the health benefits of exercise, like:
Enhances learning skills and grows brain cells
Reducing stress, anger, anxiety, and depression is good for your body and your mind.
Boosts concentration, attention, and alertness.
As we get older, we are more likely to get diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other types of dementia.
Lowers the blood pressure.
That's just a few.
For these results, you should do some kind of moderate-intensity aerobic activity for 30 minutes at least five days a week for 30 minutes at least three times a week. That is in line with the Public Health guidelines for how much exercise you should do. Brisk walking, jogging, cycling, and swimming are all examples of moderate-intensity aerobic activity.
Adding strength or resistance training will help you build muscles, strengthen bones, and protect joints by making your muscles, bones, and joints stronger. There are a lot of different types of activities that you can do to stay fit. These include yoga, rock climbing, gymnastics, and martial arts.
But what if there was one thing that could do all of these things at the same time?
It turns out that not all sports are the same, and racket sports are the best for your health.
Racket sports are especially good because they work both the heart and the brain at the same time.
It's better to work both your body and your mind together than to work out only your body.
It takes a lot of complex moves (front to back as well as side to side) and quick strategic thinking to play games like tennis, squash, badminton, and racketball.
Other sports don't have that combination of aerobic activity, strength building, flexibility, and mental precision, which makes it hard to find in any other sport. There are also a lot of racket sports you can play at any age, and they bring you together with other people so you can have fun with them (which we know is fantastic for health).
And a large study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine shows that racket sports also help you live longer.
Study: The study looked at the link between six types of exercise and the risk of early death. Racket sports (such as tennis, swimming, aerobics, cycling, running, and soccer) and swimming were the most common. There were more than 80,000 people in the study, ages 30 to 98. When the study was done over nine years, it found that people who played racket sports a lot were 47% less likely to die than those who didn't (nearly 20 percentage points better than swimming, which came in 2nd with a 28 percent lower risk of dying).
Racket sports are simply the best way to use your mind and body.
High-intensity interval workouts, balance drills, resistance training, and mental exercises all come together in racket sports to make the best workout possible.
People who are short on time and want to be healthy should pick up a racket and go play.
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