Daily Fitness Tips

Brain Fitness Vacations for Baby Boomers: Tips for Staying Sharp

Copyright (c) 2007 SharpBrains A year ago we wrote a Glossary where we defined Brain Fitness as "the general state of good, sharp, brain and mind, especially as the result of mental and physical exercise and proper nutrition" and a Brain Fitness Program as a "structured set of brain exercises, usually computer-based, designed to train specific brain areas and functions in targeted ways, and measured by brain fitness assessments." Now, thanks to a recent ELDR magazine...

Brain Fitness and Your New Year’s Resolutions

New Brain for the New Year! Brain Fitness Programs. It is January 1, 2009, and today is the day you will be doing your New Year's Resolutions, if you are done with the excesses of New Years's Eve anyway. Perhaps you have done resolutions before, generated a great deal of excitement anticipating all the neat changes you were going to manifest, like the new physique, the reduced debt, no more cigarettes, a return to school, and then you were disappointed about the slow drain of...

Soccer and Brain Fitness

Copyright (c) 2007 The Brain Code LLC While running on the treadmill this morning I was watching a soccer game on TV and had the realization that soccer is really a great game for brain fitness. I have played and been around the game all of my life but hadn't really made the full connection to brain fitness until now. In my last couple of posts, I've been introducing the concept of EPIQ performance. The fitness of your brain controls your Emotional, Physical and...

Brainfit for Life: a User’s Guide to Life-long Brain Health and Fitness

Copyright (c) 2008 BrainFit For Life As the Brain Fitness industry continues to gain momentum, and people explore all the incredible brain-training tools being developed, we hope that enthusiasts don't take their eye off the importance of the physical health of the brain and all the systems it communicates with. The brain is unique in that it houses our cognitive and emotional capacities in the form of the mind. It is a 'cognitive' organ that hungers for stimulation from new...

A Brain Fitness Program Fo Greater Mental Clarity

The “Brain Fitness Program” is the title of a PBS show that aired in December, 2007. There are a variety of brain fitness programs on the market, today, ranging in price from $19.99 for Nintendo’s “Brain Age 2” to $395 for Posit Science’s training program. With so many different titles to choose from, how do you know which brain fitness program is right for you? You might want to start with some “freebies”. There are many on-line websites that offer brain...

Fitness: Start With The Brain

I was amazed when I discovered how easily the brain can be damaged. Some brain scans look like melted Swiss cheese. These people were average people that you would see out and about doing their normal day to day tasks. I got interested in the subject when I watched a program on KSPS, with a doctor named Dr Amen who specializes in the human brain and mind. I'm not a doctor, I don't know exactly how things work within the body but this is how I understand...

Build a Better Brain: Brain Fitness Tips

In a way, your mind is like a child, and as its parent, you are in charge of its development and well-being. As is the case with most parenting, some people do this well while others do it poorly. Because the brain is so powerful, it's sometimes easy to step away from the wheel and cruise through life on auto-pilot, but to do so is to do yourself injustice. History shows that the human species has produced a host of incredible people, and that most of them were of their own making. Each of our...