What exactly is Intellectual Fitness?
Intellectual Fitness, also known as Cognified Fitness, is a combination of physical and cognitive exercise. Physical workouts that use your intellectual abilities train your brain to stay fit and healthy. To maintain mental sharpness and avoid neurological problems such as Alzheimer's and dementia as you age, you must train your mind as well as your body. While the elderly are concerned with being mentally fit, the younger generation attempts to 'gamify' their workout programs in order to make them more fun and fascinating. Cognitive training includes tasks that require various cognitive functions to work simultaneously while conducting physical exercises.
Fun Ways to Incorporate Cognitive Training into Your Exercise Routine —
1. Multitasking - Multitasking has long been a skill reserved for the very intelligent. Try dual-tasking, which entails completing a physical activity while also performing an unrelated cognitive task.
Here are several examples:
- Walk backwards from 100 while counting.
- Repeat the exercise set while naming words beginning with the letter 'K.'
- While jogging, mentally perform math computations or multiplication tables.
Your brain is packed with blood, oxygen, glucose, and positive neurotrophins, all of which boost cognitive ability and attentiveness. The main point to remember is that your exercise should be of moderate-to-vigorous intensity.
2. Clock Workout - Imagine the room as a large clock with you standing in the center of the face. Allow your trainer to call out a time, and then step or lunge toward that time on the clock. Return to your starting position as soon as possible. Variations include walking with your left foot on even numbers and your right foot on odd ones, as well as executing different actions at different times, such as a lunge at 12:00 and a jump squat at 3:00. Turn 90 degrees to the left and face 9:00 on the clock face to make it more difficult.
Rep the workout in the same way. Because your spatial orientation has shifted, you must remember which side is the 12:00 point and which side is the 6:00 mark. Based on the variables present and how they are performed, this workout helps improve auditory, memory, reaction time, balance, dual-tasking, coordination, and other neurological workouts.
3. Simon Says - Simon Says has always been one of my favorite childhood games. How can you use this childhood game to improve your cognitive abilities? Make someone into Simon and have that person give you the commands you need to follow. As a command, Simon will deliver one physical activity and one mental sum.
For example, Simon may say 4+9 = leap those m at any time. Now you must mentally compute 4+9 = 13 and leap 13 times. Squats, according to Simon. So mentally multiply 10-3 = 7 and perform 7 squats. These are some of the simpler low-intensity activities for improving cognition through exercise. It is important to recognize that this is a new trend, and the necessity for improving mental health through physical activity is currently being researched. The complex relationship between physical activity and cognitive might thus improve your overall health.
