Cerebrovascular health: Cardio Exercises (aerobic exercise)

Y's Guy · **Site Rank:** Moderator

One more reason to sweat is to maintain good cerebrovascular health. Exercising and not smoking are two main ways to prevent age-related memory loss. It is estimated that if you started exercising at 50, your brain would improve memory and function by as much as 10 years. 10 years! I want to be sharp where I hit my silver years... this is definitely one of the ways I'm going to stay on top of my game.

When you combine exercise with the brain agility games like sudoku and crossword puzzles, look out... that's what they mean when they say 80 is the new 60!

Ziggy · **Site Rank:** Healthy BBF

Y's Guy wrote:

... this is definitely one of the ways I'm going to stay on top of my game.

Oh Nooooooooo :!:

(Just kidding ya)

Y's Guy · **Site Rank:** Moderator

Ohhhh yeah! This is definitely one of the areas where the motto, "Use it or lose it" comes into play... and I plan on using it. Whose up for Trivial Pursuit, anyone?

tammy · **Site Rank:** Site Admin

Y's Guy wrote:

When you combine exercise with the brain agility games like sudoku and crossword puzzles, look out... that's what they mean when they say 80 is the new 60!

Do you do sudoku Y's Guy? I tried it a while back... it definitely hurts my brain. I was getting better at them, but now I think I suck again.

Ziggy · **Site Rank:** Healthy BBF

What is sudoku?

Y's Guy · **Site Rank:** Moderator

For some reason that kind of stuff comes easy to me. Maybe it is because my mom always got me those logic puzzles as a kid when we went to the book store... that is all I liked to get there. Conversely, that is probably why I read like a sloth and need to spellcheck everything! I think, again, it is one of those things that you use or lose, just like a foreign language or music.

Y's Guy · **Site Rank:** Moderator

It's a numbers game where you fill in the missing numbers

tammy · **Site Rank:** Site Admin

Ziggy wrote:

What is sudoku?

It is a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number. This is a puzzle that a person works on individually.

Here is a sample of what a sudoku puzzle looks like.

Ziggy · **Site Rank:** Healthy BBF

tammy wrote:

I tried it a while back... it definitely hurts my brain. I was getting better at them, but now I think I suck again.

Oh, ok, I have seen that game before. Now I see why your brain hurt. I probably tried it like 5 minutes, and then quit. Too hard for me.

Y's Guy · **Site Rank:** Moderator

I see numbers... they're everywhere!

joebert · **Site Rank:** Moderator

Sudoku hurts my brain too. I probably would have been really good at it when I was about 10 years younger.

Mahjongg

http://images.google.com/images?q=Mahjongg

tammy · **Site Rank:** Site Admin

What in the world is Mahjongg? I looked at the pictures of it and it looks crazy!

joebert · **Site Rank:** Moderator

Mahjongg is a game I would probably never play anywhere other than a computer because of how complicated it is to setup.

Have you ever played Memory, where there's a bunch of rows and columns with cards placed face-down and each player takes a turn flipping two cards at a time trying to make a pair ?

Well the object of Mahjongg is basically the same except it's one player, that grid is in one of numerous funky shapes, and the tiles are stacked multiple layers deep. You select pairs of tiles with the same symbol on them and remove them from that crazy stack you see in the photos. With Mahjongg instead of the symbols being hidden like in Memory, they are placed face-up and you can not remove a tile that is partially or fully covered nor can you remove a tile that is not on the far-left or far-right edge of the row it is in.

On a good day I can remove all 144 tiles in the version on my computer in just under 3 minutes, finding a match every 2 and a half seconds.

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