Memory improvement when training

[StarFlightRocks]

Do you know if there is any study that can confirm ornegate the fact that our memory and thinking improves with exercise?On one side I think that it should, as blood moves better, there ismore oxygen, and so on. But at the same time you get tired, and thisdoes not help with thinking. How do you combine the thinking workwith training?

 

[SteveMobsterG]

You're not tired all day long lol. How I'd find out if exercise improved memory is I'd look it up. I'll do that in a moment but I know the answer cos I've seen articles on it. You're almost right when you suggest blood and oxygen.

PubMed is THE site to check for medical references.

Here's a quote from one of the first links on google: In a study done at the University of British Columbia, researchers found that regular aerobic exercise, the kind that gets your heart and your sweat glands pumping, appears to boost the size of the hippocampus, the brain area involved in verbal memory and learning.