Exercising for Brain Power
Exercising throughout many years is viewed as a way to be in shape physically. This can be completed by lifting weights or some type of cardio. Exercising though is extremely great for your physical health but working out can actually benefit a human mentally. Even though working out is great for physical health. People could look at it in a different manner and try to get their mental strength. Many people probably argue this and believe exercising only helps people physically.
The argument is that exercising can only benefit people in a physical way. This is definitely true to their point: working out is very beneficial to having a physically healthy lifestyle. But that is not the only thing that can be improved when working out. All it takes is a little bit of altering. One mental benefit is brain boost. Brain boost helps how fast you think. This is for things to help you process thoughts quicker and smoother. This also helps strengthen your memory. In a Waldern University study, “Studies on mice and humans indicate that cardiovascular exercise creates new brain cells, a process called neurogenesis and improves overall brain performance.” The study helps so that cardio not only improves your cardiovascular system but helps the brain. Doing workouts in a certain order can help your brain with memory. This is because having a set schedule in your workout helps the person remember what they have to accomplish during that workout. Leading to a person having better memory throughout the regular day.
Many people say that exercising does not do anything for a person’s mental health. This can be found untrue though. Something that people deal with mentally is depression and anxiety. This can be reduced by working out. There are studies that show that lifting a few weights a day or every other day can reduce your anxiety. Some people will tell you that is not true and it can not happen. But in a Waldern university study working out can actually help make someone happier. For example, “Exercise is a scientifically proven mood booster, decreasing symptoms of both depression and anxiety. Physical activity kicks up endorphin levels, the body’s famous “feel good” chemical produced by the brain and spinal cord that produces feelings of happiness and euphoria.” This informs the people that exercise releases endorphins that decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety. Even doctors recommend trying to workout before they give the patient medicines. This means why people say that exercising can not help someone’s mental health. They can get questions because there has been study behind it. There are doctors that are out there that study and recommend physical exercise to improve mental health like depression and anxiety.
Another mental benefit of exercising is decreased stress. Tons of people deal with stress throughout their lives. People try and make exercising out to be something it is not. Exercising is extremely beneficial to decrease personal stress. Even though stress is a mental issue and working out is a physical act. It can help relieve your stress and even get rid of it. By just increasing your heart rate in any workout that a person is completing. This can help reverse self-induced brain damage of stress. In a study, “which not only improve cognition and mood but improve thinking clouded by stressful events. Exercise also forces the body’s central and sympathetic nervous systems to communicate with one another, improving the body’s overall ability to respond to stress.” This shows that exercising pretty much gets the brain to start going. This then leads to the reduction of stress that a person is enduring. The argument that physical exercise only benefits humans with their physical body can be proven. That this is not true and that it can benefit the person’s mental stress that everyone deals with.
Many people argue that exercising can only benefit humans physically. Yes physical exercise does indeed benefit physical health and is needed for day to day life. This can be proven to be not true. With the information stated above like depression and stress but reduced by working out helps further the point. This also helps people strengthen the brain with brain boost, that helps memory and cognitive function. The information given helps prove the point that exercising can benefit people mentally.
References
Walden University. (2016, November 18). 5 mental benefits of exercise. Walden University. https://www.waldenu.edu/online-bachelors-programs/bs-in-psychology/resource/five-mental-benefits-of-exercise
Pani, J., Marzi, C., Stensvold, D., Wisløff, U., Håberg, A. K., & Diciotti, S. (2022). Longitudinal study of the effect of a 5-year exercise intervention on structural brain complexity in older adults. A Generation 100 substudy. NeuroImage, 256(119226), 119226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119226
How physical activity improves mental health. (2022, December 29). Community Health of Central Washington – Community Health of Central Washington; Community Health of Central Washington. https://www.chcw.org/behavioral-health-how-physical-activity-improves-mental-health/
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RavensFan, I’m going to start with some very blunt criticism. I apologize in advance that it will not be very encouraging, but I will be on the lookout as I continue to read your paper to find the positives and praise where I can. Here goes. Your first 135 words are junk:
There’s nothing there that you need. I’m going to suggest that the whole thing could be replaced by:
Moving on:
When we covered “Robust Subjects and Verbs” in a recent class, we concentrated partly on weak sentences beginning with “There is” and “It is.” We could also have spent time on the practice of starting sentences with “This is,” which very often suffer from vague antecedents. Readers can’t always tell what “This” is supposed to mean, and your writing loses urgency when they have to go back to check—or worse, they stop trying and move on to read something that guides them better. You create this challenge for readers three times in the one paragraph above.
Let’s fix that.
You may notice that I’ve removed every use of YOU and YOUR and all other 2nd-person language from YOUR paragraph, RavensFan. If that last YOUR felt a little personal, YOU should take it as a warning that readers feel personally attacked, too, when we accuse them of not doing exercises as they should or holding the same views that WE do. OUR preferred pronouns for this class are FIRST PERSON PLURAL: We, and Our, and Ours.
You may wonder how you’ll ever get to 1000 words if all of your paragraphs are as brief and direct as the versions above, and it’s a reasonable question, the answer to which is: You need more content. In a Rebuttal argument, the best content is the strong position taken by your Worthy Opponent, which you can use to refute bad ideas one by one. In the classroom example, we got endless mileage from refuting the faulty logic and bad examples of Bob Herbert, who argued against nuclear power plants.
You’ve done a good job of finding surprising mental benefits of exercise, RavensFan. They should help convince readers that you have valuable insights to share. But they may also wonder why they’ve never heard about them before. You need the extra push of showing them that anyone who NEGLECTS the brain-enhancement value of workouts has a flawed approach.
In your case, depending on what People Say, and Many People Think and what People Want To Make Exercise Out To Be doesn’t get you very far. You end up creating positions different from your own so you can repeat the claims you made in your earlier arguments.
The process of finding and refuting the strongest arguments that contradict your own is not a meaningless exercise; it’s an essential part of actually convincing skeptical readers who may share the bad ideas of your “Opponents.”
Let me know if this is enough Feedback or if there’s another way I can help you.
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Despite some capable writing throughout, your final paragraph is a mess. The two sentences that start with “This” create exactly the sort of confusion that creates head-scratching. And the references to “information given” aren’t much better.
I understand Conclusions are often considered throwaways, but they don’t have to be. Make them say something.
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