Exercise and Your Brain

Ever wonder if one type of exercise effects a certain part of your brain more than another? Research shows that aerobic exercise, weight training, yoga and HIIT all stimulate separate sections of the brain.

  Read the complete article here; "New Finding: Different Types of Exercise Affects Different Parts of Your Brain". Worried about memory loss? Aerobic exercise is your best bet. "The hippocampus shrinks as we get older, leading to the typical struggles with memory. But aerobic exercise not only prevents this loss — it reverses it, slowing the effects of getting older. Voelcker-Rehage has found that the brain requires less energy to complete certain tasks after exercise. “We would say that points to the fact that the brain is more efficient,” she says. “It works more like a young brain.”

So keep lifting, running, and doing other forms of movement! Don't stop no matter what age you may be. 

Source: ConsciousLifeNews.com