Harvard Studies: Sports is the best way to invest in yourself

Recently, major colleges and universities have begun to issue admission notices one after another, and "performance" has once again become the focus of public attention.

This reminds me of the former college entrance examination champion. Today's brain science expert Tsinghua Huan, my personal experience shared on the media platform.

He said that the class teacher took them every day, which was one of the important factors he could be admitted to Tsinghua.

In addition to making our bodies healthier, exercise can also adjust and optimize the brain, thereby achieving the ultimate goal of improving ourselves.

Coincidentally, Rydi, an internationally recognized expert in the field of neuropsychological medicine, has also found the same research.

He wrote in the book "Sports Transformation Brain":

The most critical role of exercise is to strengthen or improve the brain.

Exercise is actually the best investment in the brain.

Exercise, make you smarter

I wonder if you have experienced such experiences:

Feeling muddy and weak, standing up and acting, immediately feel sober;

The efficiency of work and learning is low. Go out for a few laps, and the state will get better soon.

Like someone said:

The greatest charm of exercise is to keep the brain in the best state.

Wendy, a professor of neuroscience who studied long -term memory, did an experiment with himself and successfully proved this.

Professor Wendy has been studying human memory for a long time, and gradually narrows her body care, and she has unknowingly gaining a lot of fatness.

During a drift activity, she suddenly found that her young self was the person with the weakest physical fitness, so she was determined to enter the gym to exercise.

After more than a year of exercise, she not only successfully recovered her slim figure, but also found that her memory has improved and her attention has also increased.

She was very curious about this and converted her research direction to the changes in the brain.

After the study, she found that the long -term exercise will have a huge impact on the anatomical structure, physiological functions and functions of the brain:

"Simply let your body move, you can have instant and long -term protection effects on your brain, and you can last your life."

The National Academy of Sciences has also published a data:

Compared with sedentary peers, the size of the hippocampus of those who often exercise can increase by 2%.

In other words, exercise can make our brain continue to develop.

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For young people, exercise can promote brain development; for middle -aged people, exercise can suspend brain degeneration.

A 53 -year -old friend has the habit of exercising every day.

When she found out a few pages of books after exercise, her brain would become particularly good.

She said that although she was getting older, she could make her physical aging slower through exercise, which made her feel at ease.

Da Vinci once said:

Exercise is the source of all life.

No matter what age you are and what kind of occupation you are in, you can develop and protect the brain with the help of exercise, and then firmly hold the initiative of life.

Sports, make you happy

There is a question on Zhihu: "What did the exercise bring you?"

Gao Zan's answer is:

"Long -term exercise can not only change the appearance, but also bring me a self -confidence that emits from the inside."

The happiness brought by exercise is that it allows us to release stress, relieve emotions, and gain the dual pleasure of body and mind.

Sports and mental health authoritative expert Brendon Stubbs has done an experiment:

He asked the participants to advance a week of sports training, and then paused for 7 days to observe their mental state after stopping exercise.

The results showed that a number of data from all participants fluctuated significantly, and their psychological state index fell by 15%on average.

Among them, the frequency of thoughts increased by 23%, the degree of self -confidence decreased by 20%, and the degree of calmness decreased by 19%.

At the end of the experiment, a participant said with emotion: "My body and spirit dependence on the movement far exceed my imagination."

In the past, we only observed the physical changes brought by the movement from the naked eye. As everyone knows, sports can still have a significant impact on our emotions.

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I have seen netizens@曾 曾 曾 曾:

When he is unsatisfactory in life and work, he will go to the morning.

Along the Yellow River, when the sun was running in the morning, he stopped gradually becoming dazzling.

At this time, he would stand on the river embankment and roar his throat on the other side.

He says:

"The turbid gas in the chest and lungs seemed to be emptied instantly, becoming very comfortable.

At this time, slowly calm down, thinking about the recent life is not as decadent as before, and the spirit suddenly get better, just like being returned to blood. "

The sports will allow us to get a sense of control and self -confidence, get rid of the negative emotions such as stress and anxiety.

At the same time, it can also promote the secretion of dopamine with a sense of happiness, making us more and more happily.

Those who exercise and love sports will become more challenging and love life in the movement of self -breakthroughs.

Control life and start from exercise

The former president of Peking University Wang En said when he took office:

People need to make "two friends" in their lives, one is the library and the other is a sports field.

Exercise is an important way to assist the development of the brain, and it is also a friend who can accompany us throughout our lives.

If you want to make the sports more powerful, please refer to the following suggestions: First, start from walking and discover your favorite sports.

The so -called "difficult to start with everything."

For those who do not have the foundation of exercise, we are accustomed to walking the best way to cultivate exercise habits.

Because it can help us break the fear of exercise and start changing with a confident mentality.

Then, we try various sports to discover the one or several of them.

If you like sweaty feelings, then run and dance;

If you like to stretch your body and mind, you can practice yoga and fight Tai Chi;

Pick out two or three sports that you like, scientifically arrange time to practice, and enjoy the fun brought by the sports!

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Second, constantly challenge new movements and inject vitality into the brain.

Just as the period of weight loss has a stop -stop platform, the transformation of the brain is the same.

When your body has developed the habit of exercise and adapts to the rhythm of exercise, the stimulus of exercise to the body and brain will enter a stagnant state.

Therefore, we must try new movements from time to time to let the body start a new round of challenges, and the brain has been developed again.

If you are accustomed to alone, you can try the combination of groups such as badminton, basketball and other groups;

Always repeat the traditional movements such as skipping rope and running, then follow the fitness experts such as Pamela and Liu Genghong to join trendy training.

Third, after exercise, complete the most important thing.

Within 1-2 hours after exercise, it is the time for brain hyperplasia to strengthen the hippocampus.

If you choose to relax the entertainment and relaxation projects after exercise, it will waste the value -added function brought by the brain.

Students can recite and solve problems after exercise; office workers can use their time on writing summary and watchmaking; entrepreneurs can think about planning future careers.

You know, only when the brain is fully used after exercise can you really make yourself really "smart".

At the end

Writer Li Shanglong said:

A person who sleeps at home every day never knows that people on the treadmill have another happiness.

When you feel that your physical fitness is not good, running and running will slowly recover your health.

When you feel bad, jump, you may appear in inspiration.

When you find unhappy mood, when you move, your troubles will dissipate.

Although the exercise can't give the return we want in a short time.

But for a long time, we will give us a stronger body, a more flexible brain, and a more pleasant mood, and thus open a steady stream of recovery.

At that time, you will find that exercise is an excellent investment in life.

Pay attention to "readers" and encourage friends.

Author: Fat girl does not like to move, a Guangdong girl who is in a small town, but does not want to be limited. Pursuing reading and writing, pursuing lifelong growth. Source: Fan Deng Reading (ID: ReadingClub_BTFX).

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