Exercise makes you smarter

Ok Arnie, we hear you Mr Terminator.

I'll consider it as a New Years resolution (again) after I've scoffed two dozen mince pies, assorted slices of Christmas pudding (most with lashings of brandy of course), decimated half a 7 kilo turkey with all the trimmings, wolfed down the best soft centres from all the boxes of chocolates, had a fry-up for breakfast every morning for the two week Christmas period, and raided the fridge at regular 15 minute intervals to consume anything remotely sweet, savoury, or just plain edible.

Of course this is in addition to copious amounts of wine, port, beer, and anything else that makes you think your grandmothers legs are really not that bad after two or three glasses of it.

My exercise will consist of short walks to the chiller, even shorter walks to the toilet, and shuffling upstairs backwards on my arse when I'm so intoxicated that I think my wife is a reincarnation of Miss World 1985. Or was it 86?

YOU can exercise all you want. Strain your Christmas brussels sprouts through nylons and inject the puree into your veins. Do your bench presses, sit-ups, leg-ups, and cock-ups. Jog to your hearts content with your hoodie up or down, the sweat dripping off your finely chiselled torso and taut legs.

My legs will be in the relaxed, dangly position, glass in one hand, and the other hand caressing parts of my wife that I was reminded of when I carved the turkey. I will be warm, happy, drunk, and thankful for what I've got. You'll be wet (if it's raining), wet (because you're sweating), and wet (behind the ears), because you've never taken the time to realise that it's not how fit you are that makes you smarter. It's how contented you are.

Hit me up if you'd like an invite.

Hasta la vista baby.

Oh I don't know. Tomorrow I'll be pulling agate and jasper off a ledge that is quite some way up. And when I get that stuff down, I'm going to feel pretty smart. Especially since I don't fall every time I get on a steep slope like some of the less frequent climbers/hunters seem to do.

why is that I always plan but couldn't implement?? I m fed up of myself! Getting up early is the biggest battle in my life. I start exercising for about a month or two then stop. Because I can't get up early and that is because I stay too late on my laptop - you know IM thing?

No wonder I'm so smart. I blink my eyes hundreds of times a day.

Exercising neither too much nor too little is extremely important. I hope that that is common sense to all humans.

Throughout my life I've met individuals who did everything a person is not supposed to do -- iffy eating habits, hallucinogenic drugs, womanizing/manizing, you name it --yet were way smarter than me even at their worst moments, and it didn't matter if I was at my best physical shape, mentally focused, positive-thinking yadda yadda yadda. One such individual was a decorated physics professor. Hate to say it but, basically, intelligence is mostly genetic.

Very good but please tell me, how does one improve on perfection so I may pass it on to Claude Whitacre?

It knackered me out just reading that.

Got to go lay down now.

Guess you just have to resign yourself to losing your brain?

Seriously, though - fresh air, sunshine and connecting bare feet to the earth to ground the electromagnetism naturally goes a long way in keeping the brain fit, too, if you're not in shape for other forms of exercise, which I take to mean someone has some form of physical disability. If there is no disability, there's no reason not to get out and stretch it out now and again - or to just do it light. Just simply walking does the trick as far as the brain is concerned (waste removal, blood/oxygen flow). You don't have to take up body building - although it's always nice to look at someone who does. :rolleyes:

i run at least 100 kms and cycle at least 200 kms a week, plus specialised training

guess im a genius

When you consider what quantum physics says about the nature of our universe - anything we think of as metaphysical would just be SOS under the laws of quantum physics - so I can see why a physicist would not believe in "metaphysics" -- it all just makes sense as reality. No meta about any of it.

+1. Especially for running.

Lots of people are just lazy + they don't realize that when you are healthy and in normal shape, physical activity on regular basis is not an forced, boring, difficult obligation - you genuinely want / have a need to do it and you do it with enthusiasm. It's really great + it really feels great, on all levels. It might be difficult only at the beginning, after years of physical laziness, but that's nothing to be stressed about...

people who sits all day and think that these stuff aren't for them have no idea what they are missing and how irresponsible they are towards themselves.