Sport and moderate physical activity affect not only the appearance of a person, but also the health of his heart and other organs, but also the athlete’s memory.

According to new studies, intensive exercises are important for brain health, because they also help to improve memory, as well as other actions, for example, memorizing verses and so on..

Specialists decided to study healthy elderly people aged 60 to 88 years, who regularly visited the gym for eighteen weeks..

Volunteers were divided into three groups by type of training:

HIIT, consisting of 4 high-intensity exercises on a treadmill for four minutes with a subsequent recovery period; continuous training of medium intensity with one set of aerobic exercises for fifty minutes and performing only stretch marks.

After that, the authors of the work checked the number of new brain neurons. Tests helped determine that older HIIT-trained people improved their memory performance by thirty percent. In the group that performed moderate physical exercises, no improvements appeared.

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