Exercise Can Calm Your Mind If It’s Hard Enough.
Light cardiovascular exercise can help calm your mind and give you time to process your thoughts. But what if thoughts bother you so much that you just need to get distracted? It turns out that exercise can do it too.
During heavy anaerobic exercise, your brain has a hard time dealing with abstract and creative thoughts. This means high intensity intervals can be the perfect workout on a bad day. Sprints, burpees, or cycling that make you choke on can affect your brain:
“When you have a high workload – that is, you run as hard as you can in a race – you won’t be able to solve problems or think as well as when you do moderate exercise,” said Karen Postal, instructor psychologist at Harvard Medical School and president of American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology.
So, you can choose a workout depending on whether you want to spend time thinking about something or just want your brain to be silent for a moment. For more information on the effects of exercise on the brain, see the link below.
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