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Other/Mixed What training do you feel benefits your mental function the most?

Other strength modalities (e.g., Clubs), mixed strength modalities (e.g., combined kettlebell and barbell), other goals (flexibility)
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now that i think of it - the best i ever felt was doing Q&D 044 on a MWF schedule.
mentally and otherwise.
 
Would love to hear peoples experience. If you were training solely for alertness, energy and maybe cognitive function throughout the day, what would you pick?
Cycling for me. I do it for the BDNF and the immediate feels. Otherwise, Q/D 33 or 44.

“Endurance exercise releases a protein called FNDC5 (fibronectin type III domain-containing protein 5. How’s that for a mouthful?). FNDC5, in turn, increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor by 200-300 percent…”
 
If you were training solely for alertness, energy and maybe cognitive function throughout the day

I might be off on a tangent here, as everyone has gone for physical stimulation, for me in answer to the OP, a really challenging game of chess that you triumph in does all those things for me.
 
I remember seeing a brain specialist, Dr Amen, showing a brain scan of someone before and after playing table tennis, and the after scan showed the whole brain was lit up i.e. activated.

I remember reading in The New Scientist that the brain scans of novice versus expert chess players are completely complimentary. Something about the novel stimulus and the pattern recognition function.
I wonder whether the table tennis subject was a beginner. Learning something new always seems to stimulate me differently to practicing something established.
 
Would love to hear peoples experience. If you were training solely for alertness, energy and maybe cognitive function throughout the day, what would you pick?
I used to do my Rite of Passage ladder but take all day with the reps and sets split up by short walks with uplifting music. Sometimes sitting in the seiza position for like 10 minutes at a time. Really was a form of meditation.
 
In addition, to rest in mental stillness during meditation, you can also learn to cultivate the calm after this meditation so that you can be relaxed as you go about doing things. Being relaxed means that you can do more mentally with less effort. The method is that of the late eminent psychiatrist, Dr Ainslie Meares. I should also mention that some people say they practice "stillness meditation" but their mind cannot be still as it is focussed (ie nothing like Dr Meares' method), this is why I usually mention his name.

Sounds amazing in theory and like something I could do really do with.

However when I try to research it, all I get are vague descriptions of the method, no guided meditations or simple instructions – just buy this book or pay for our course. I can't see how a meditation that you have an entire book to even get a clue of how to carry out can be particularly relaxing. The whole thing seems a bit like a cult/sales pitch to me. I wonder if he has simply repackaged a very simple meditation such as the open awareness one from Zen where you try hold everything that is in awareness without being attached to any specific thing – hence the difference to for example focusing on the breath, and his successors are now trying to make money off this re packaging.

Are you able to direct me to any simple, straight to the point guidance on this method? I would be very grateful as ironically trying to find out anything useful about it is in itself quite a stressful experience
 
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