Brain Fitness/ Training by the American Senior Fitness Association

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 19, 2009 |

Brain Fit­ness Com­ing to Senior Exer­cise Class­es (press release): — “The Amer­i­can Senior Fit­ness Asso­ci­a­tion (SFA) has announced a new brain fit­ness train­ing pro­gram designed for exer­cise pro­fes­sion­als. Brain Fit­ness for Old­er Adults teach­es senior fit­ness instruc­tors and per­son­al train­ers how to incor­po­rate effec­tive cog­ni­tive fit­ness into phys­i­cal activ­i­ty pro­grams, offer­ing seniors the oppor­tu­ni­ty to…

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Schools as Brain Training Hubs?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 11, 2008 |

In the post Top 10 Brain Train­ing Future Trends I asked for sug­ges­tions to refine our pre­dic­tions for the 2007–2015 peri­od. A good num­ber of peo­ple con­tributed, and the win­ner is… Scott Spears, retired pub­lic schools super­in­ten­dent. His prediction:  “Pre­dic­tion 11: The notion of school­ing will be struc­tural­ly dra­mat­i­cal­ly altered through the use of diag­nos­tics relat­ed to…

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Jack LaLanne and Dakim

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 11, 2008

What a beau­ti­ful dis­play of cre­ativ­i­ty: Phys­i­cal Fit­ness ‘God­fa­ther’ Jack LaLanne Turns to Brain Fit­ness, Becom­ing Ambas­sador for Dakim’s [m] Pow­er Sys­tem — Dakim, Inc., announced today that 93-year-young Jack LaLanne, the world’s most icon­ic fig­ure in health and fit­ness, has signed on as a “brain fit­ness moti­va­tion­al coach” on behalf of the com­pa­ny’s [m]Power…

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Brain Exercise: Software vs. Crosswords

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 6, 2008 |

Today I had a great con­ver­sa­tion with Mar­tin Buschkuehl, one of the U Michi­gan researchers involved in the cog­ni­tive train­ing study that has received much media atten­tion since ear­ly last week, when the study was pub­lished at the Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences. I will pub­lish the inter­view notes next week. For the…

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Physical and Brain Exercise Boost Memory

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 6, 2007 |

Researchers at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty have just released a good paper show­ing the impor­tance of both phys­i­cal and men­tal exer­cise to main­tain good mem­o­ry (full text of research paper Sin­gle Enrich­ment Vari­ables Reduce Aged-relat­ed Mem­o­ry Decline in Female Mice). Some quotes from the Sci­ence Dai­ly release Exer­cise And Men­tal Stim­u­la­tion Both Boost Mouse Mem­o­ry Late In…

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Jack and Elaine LaLanne and Brain Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 21, 2007

Very fun inter­view with Jack and Elaine LaLanne by Dave Bun­nell: read it at Meet Fit­ness Leg­ends Jack and Elaine LaLanne | ELDR.com. See some quotes: In 1936, Jack opened America’s first health club in Oak­land, Cal­i­for­nia, called the “Jack LaLanne Phys­i­cal Cul­ture Studio.” Through tele­vi­sion shows, pub­lic appear­ances, and books—and by sell­ing health-relat­ed products—they…

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