When you wake up, wriggle your toes. Try moving them all at once and then in a smaller groups.

It will activate a set of nerves stimulating your brain, making you more alert.

Find exercises that will improve right brain and left brain communication.

Easy easy one is to march while putting the right hand to the left knee and vice versa.

Anything that incorporates rhythm and coordination boosts your brain health and dance classes do just do.

You’ll be multi-tasking like crazy learning how to coordinate.

Circuit training in the gym puts your brain into super-active mode as your alternate resistance training with cardio and constantly redirect your attention and memory skills.

Feeling mentally tired? A few jumping jacks can reboot your brain and jolt you into feeling more refreshed.

Walking is said to be able to help you concentrate, clear your head and encourage creative thinking.

It’s thought the rhythmic nature may have a positive effect on brain power.

Researchers have shown that just eight weeks of yoga can result in better concentration and the inverted poses improve blood flow to the brain.

Researchers have found that mice that ran on a wheel were found to grow more brain cells than sedentary mice.

One reason is that any aerobic exercise increases blood flow and delivers more nutrients and oxygen to the brain.

It helps increase white matter, the brain’s cabling network.

Play team sports which require strategy and long-term planning. They help build better brains.

Walking barefoot gives the part of the brain that gathers and interprets information a workout.

Play golf or other games that require you to follow the progress of the ball. It stimulates the brain’s tracking functions.

Text: Bauer/Good Health