Have you ever heard that exercise is the best way to make time?
"Why are the elites time control", a group of research data in the book triggered my interest, and I began to understand another big benefit of sports!
The Taiwan Health Research Institute conducted a follow-up survey of 410,000 people for eight years, and the results showed that people who exercised for 15 minutes a day had a 14% lower death rate than those who did not exercise, and their average life expectancy was 1002 days longer than the average person, that is, they could live about three years longer.
That's the science behind the claim that exercise can lengthen our lives, which in turn creates more time for us. The author concludes by saying that the more exercise you do, the more time you create.
If every 15 minutes of exercise can add 8 hours to my life, then every 25 minutes of exercise can add 13 hours to my life. According to this algorithm, it is inevitably misleading, because we need to exercise in moderation! The necessity of moderate exercise is as follows.
01 Excessive exercise does not create more time.
When you can only run 3 kilometers, but insist on running 4 kilometers, the result after the exercise, the whole person began to feel sleepy, no strength, no mind to do anything.
This is due to the low blood sugar after excessive exercise, resulting in sleepiness, at this time the recovery of the body will be in a priority position, there is no excess energy to send to the brain, so that a sit down quickly can fall asleep, in fact, the body is too tired.
Each person's physical conditions are different, and the exercise load they can bear is different. In order to find the right amount of exercise for you to restore your concentration, you have to experiment, experiment with various forms of exercise, the length of exercise, and then find the most suitable way.
Excessive exercise makes our bodies tired, requires more recovery time, and does not create more time for us, so remember: exercise in moderation!
02 Moderate exercise makes the brain smarter.
Moderate exercise can make people feel refreshed, focus and work desire will be stronger, scientific research has found that the benefits of exercise for the brain are mainly reflected in the "brain", exercise can promote the secretion of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor).
BDNF is the nutrition required by the brain, and what we call "brain supplement" is essentially to fill the neurotrophic factor for the big imagination. Brain activity depends on the signal transmission between neurons, and BDNF is a protein that induces the survival, development and function of brain neurons.
Scientific experiments on people who love sports and those who do not exercise tested long-term memory, reasoning ability, concentration, problem solving and other skills, and found that people who love sports perform better than those who do not exercise.
03 Moderate exercise leads to better sleep quality
Those who exercised for 150 minutes a week experienced a 65 percent improvement in sleep quality, a 65 percent reduction in daytime sleepiness, and a 45 percent reduction in daytime fatigue and concentration problems.
The above data is also found by scientists through research tests, so regular exercise can make the night sleep deeper, better concentration during the day.
Sum up
If a person wants to have strong energy and devote himself to his career or work, if he can cultivate a habit of exercise, his harvest will be huge.
When is the best time to exercise?
The author recommends that morning exercise is better for us, but for busy office workers, the time in the morning is too precious, if it can be used to recharge themselves or work better.
So exercise after work is a good choice, but please be careful: 3 hours before bed to finish the exercise!