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Lifting for Your Brain: What Resistance Training Does Above the Neck
Most of us walk into the gym assuming the body is on duty and the brain has the hour off. It's the other way around. Every squat starts as an electrical signal. The awkward first weeks of a new movement aren't weak muscles, they're a nervous system learning a skill. Strength, it turns out, is partly something you know how to do.
That's the door into a bigger question: what does lifting do for the organ running the show? This episode covers the research connecting resistance training to executive function and memory, why exercise reaches the brain through blood vessels and blood sugar as much…
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