I’m still keeping up with my new year’s resolution to work out and I’ve been doing pretty good. I have been feeling a lot better and a lot more in control of things–and of course you start to see results after awhile. As if you need another good reason to work out, here’s yet one more: It apparently makes you smarter. Adam Campbell from Men’s Health has written an article that gives examples and research outlining the argument. Here’s a quote from Arkansas Governor Huckabee, who you’ll remember lost a ton of weight and was in the news awhile ago.
“I’m more creative, because I have mental energy. When I finish running several miles, it’s like my mind is running on overdrive,” he says. And, he adds, “It’s made a dramatic difference in my ability to focus.”
So, you can have a clear win-win. Not be too intense about work and get better at it at the same time.
Nick Senzee is membership director of a professional design society in the DC metro area. He likes to read and write and puts his thoughts down in his blog.
Having admitedly only read the first couple of paragraphs of the Men’s Health article and NOT the entire academic publication, to some extent this is good example of showing correlation and NOT necessarily causality. In other words, is being highly organised CAUSED by undertaking exercise regimes or is there merely a strong correlation? Many things correlate postively with other things, but other (unmeasured) variables explain the causality.
And, yes, I am a couch-potato. :)