I recently read about a study that says you can boost your brain health using one particular form of exercise that surprised me — high-intensity training (HIT). As a personal trainer, I already knew that the benefits of HIIT range from increasing calorie burn to boosting cardiovascular fitness and strength, but the brain?
The piece of research, published in Aging and Disease, looked at cognitively healthy adults aged 65-85 against three different six-month exercise regimes and assessed hippocampal cognition tied to learning and memory. The results were pretty promising for HIT.
