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Your Brain on Exercise

Fitness professionals have the opportunity to join allied health professionals in addressing cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. This session will review the research on how certain exercise modalities can deferentially affect the brain, and provide an initial framework for the assessment and programming of cognitive health within exercise programs.

 

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe how cardiovascular, resistance, motor, multicomponent and dual-task exercise training can benefit the brain.
  2. Apply exercise programming strategies for both specific and general brain-health outcomes.
  3. Identify the neurobiological mechanisms through which the brain benefits from exercise.
  4. Define dual tasking and how it can improve both functional and cognitive outcomes in the brain.
  5. Identify the neurobiological mechanisms involved in dual-task exercise.

This course will review the research on how certain exercise modalities can deferentially affect the brain, and provide an initial framework for the assessment and programming of cognitive health within exercise programs.

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