Moment 165: This Exercise Enhances Mood, Memory & Concentration: David Raichlen

Uh activity the same. So if I'm doing strength training. H is that as beneficial for my brain as potentially Going for a run outdoors. It's a great question. And um, you know, we

There is not a ton of very clear work that's compared directly. different types of activity in ways that w where where I could tell you for sure this is the best one, right? There are data that suggests that resistance training is beneficial to the brain. There's more work on endurance activity. And I actually think that's probably because it's easier to do rodent work on endurance activity than resistance. And so trying to translate across those models is a little bit easier. Both forms of exercise have benefits. They may be through different pathways. Um, there may be different biological mechanisms that are underlying those benefits. I've kind of seen some cool work coming out lately that has tried to look at

uh, for example, different types of endurance exercise. So there's a great study that came out. Are you familiar with orienteering? It's a sport where you're given like a map and a compass. And you have to uh Find your way across a route as fast as possible. So it kind of mixes endurance activity with spatial navigation and And uh moving around your environment, figuring out where you are. Typically done outside, right? Oh yeah, always done outside. Typically done on natural like on trails and things, but people do do it in cities as well. Okay. So like and this is over the

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