Sports has been a huge part of my life since, well, forever! All my life I have incorporated sports into my school life, and schedule. How it effects the Brain! Exercise is possibly one of the key points to having a healthy brain. Studies prove that physical and aerobic exercise are important for cognitive activity, and basically just thinking straight. A good 30 minute is workout is enough to make a whole day of thinking better! My family is very exercise related, me and my brother doing at least one sport per season and going for runs.
My cousin Jacob is a big part of my life and so is competition sports, so we make it a routine to go the gym and shoot hoops whenever he comes over to my house or vice versa. Because we want to get better, we make playing basketball together super competitive and I think that competition is motivation for me to do much better. Motivation is a key part in helping the brain to work harder, because I know I can't do something without putting my mind to it. When I try to do something, it usually comes out good but I am REALLY hard to get motivated! When I can't focus on something my mom tells me to just get up and do some jumping jacks, which actually helps! Exercise is great for the brain, and helps get you thinking. How it effect Emotions! Another thing exercise helps with is emotions! I get pretty mad easy, and get irritated at people, so going on runs helps me with that! Every single time I go for a run and come home I get a comment from my brother that I'm being nicer, and I guess it gets me in a better mood.
In Putnam city, there was a study where children who ran around for a half hour performed at least 45% better than the children that hadn't exercised. Also, during the class the children who had run around were behaving themselves and gave off a happy vibe to the teachers, and the observers. The effect lasted for about four hours, which is an amazing amount compared to the mere 30 minutes of exercise. Exercise is the #1 thing to cheer you up! What I think! Exercise is basically training your brain to be healthy, and keep in touch with emotions. A new year's resolution of mine is to not fight with my mom so much, so I'm gonna exercise more to keep in a better mood for her, and to be more pumped for schoolwork! The whole point of my blog was just to get you guys to realize how important it is for people, especially kids, to get active! I know it sounds cheesy, but it will help you to get better grades (if you don't go to Catlin...) and to just smile more. Do sports! :) Sources: http://www.patriotledger.com/blogs/health-cares/x1164582311/Exercise-and-the-Brain http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/train-your-brain-with-exercise http://images.google.com/
