fitness and brain function

Although,

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through anecdotal evidence in this forum, I would postulate that the opposite is true...

Excellent!

Curt

pedalchick said:

Somebody should do a peer-reviewed study on athletes to see if increased fitness helps cognitive
function in younger people. Although, through anecdotal evidence in this forum, I would postulate
that the opposite is true...

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Rik O'Shea (possibly not his real name) posted a quote from CHris Boardman along the lines that the
mindset of a champion is very close to mental illness.

It's been a concern among coaches here in NZ for a while that young champion athletes do not have
balanced lifestyles. However, as one coach pointed out, if they did have balanced lifestyles, they
probably wouldn't be champion athletes.

I think some of the posting on this and other boards support the idea that
exercise does nothing for brain function 🙂

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Somebody should do a peer-reviewed study on athletes to see if increased fitness helps cognitive
function in younger people. Although, through anecdotal evidence in this forum, I would postulate
that the opposite is true...

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pedalchick said:

Somebody should do a peer-reviewed study on athletes to see if increased fitness helps cognitive
function in younger people. Although, through anecdotal evidence in this forum, I would postulate
that the opposite is true...

Perfect. Grungi is an anecdotal case. He played sports and it took him ten years to get a liberal
arts degree. Based on him, I say sport makes a person dumber.

pedalchick said:

Somebody should do a peer-reviewed study on athletes to see if increased fitness helps cognitive
function in younger people. Although, through anecdotal evidence in this forum, I would postulate
that the opposite is true...

What do you mean by that? Huh? I don't understand.

What we have here is apples being compared to carrots. I think you're confusing cognitive function
with motivation/competitive desire. Moreover, you can neither draw conclusions about function in
young people from research on athletes, nor can you draw any hypotheses based on the fact that young
have difficulty concentrating.

The problem here is that you're trying to compare old people who perform moderate exercise to young,
highly trained athletes who, it could be argued, exercise too much to begin with. While the research
appears to be lacking in the area (I ran a free medline search), I would argue that long term
training (young athlete) has no effect, or perhaps a positive effect if you tested the individual in
a well rested state.

In my search, though, I did learn that preliminary longitudinal studies in dicate that heavy
marijuana use has no long-term cognitive effects. See, I found it here: intapp.medscape.comintapp.medscape.comOpen ↗
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Somebody should do a peer-reviewed study on athletes to see if increased fitness helps cognitive
function in younger people. Although, through anecdotal evidence in this forum, I would postulate
that the opposite is true...

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