Key Takeaways
- Exercise is crucial to how we think and feel, how we learn, staves off aging, and improves our mood
- Forced exercise doesn’t have the same positive effects as voluntary exercise. If you understand the benefits of exercise, hopefully it’ll make it easier to commit to
- The Naperville study is amazing. 19,000 students exercised first thing and only 3% were obese compared to the national average of 30%. They learned better and scored at world class levels. The fix for education may lie at least partially in exercise
- Exercise primes us to learn and improves the connections we make, enhancing our creativity, recall, and retention
- We can alter our mental state, reducing stress, anxiety, and depression
- Find ways to exercise in a social manner too through sports or classes
- Good diet, occasional fasting, exercise are healthy stressors that help us flush out toxins and strengthen our muscles and wellbeing
- It’s important to take a break as well. If we’re always on, we’ll never recover. You’ll see many marathon runners with a little paunch for this reason. Rest and sprint is a more effective way to live and exercise than always mildly on
- Exercise is also incredibly helpful in regulating hormones and keeping them steady as we age
- 4-5 days per week of exercise, intense, shorter, strength training mixed in, and aerobic exercise, long walks
What I got out of it
- I knew some of these benefits from exercise, but seeing the extent is wildly exciting. Doing it first thing in the morning has benefits throughout the day and incorporating it before a test, important meeting, or other event will help keep you sharp
