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My name is Brock Armstrong and I am the Get Fit Guy.

You know, the mind plays a large role in fitness, exercise, and sports, almost as large as our

cardiovascular system, our strength, our speed, and our power.

Well, today, I'm going to interview a neuroscientist named Dr. Bob Schaefer, and he's going

to tell us about ways that we can use habits and mindfulness to improve our training.

Plus, he's going to get into which is more important, practicing for 10,000 hours or just simply being

born with the right genetics. I have been trying out various brain training regimens for,

well, years now. But lately, I've really been digging into a series of games that you play on

your computer or your mobile device for just a few minutes a day, every day,

to boost your cognitive function, or so it promises.

A lab called LUMOS Labs conducted a randomized study of the Lomosity Brain Training System,

which is what I've been using.

And after 10 weeks of training, the users

improved their working memory, their short-term memory, their processing speed, and their overall

cognitive function, which is pretty cool. Now, personally, aside from a being really fun to feel

like I'm, I don't know, taking a multivitamin for my brain

by playing some video games every day, Lomosity and the other brain training systems available,

have been showing some promising advantages in the field of exercise and sport.

In a recent paper that was published in the Frontiers of Psychology,

scientists investigated the role of cognitive and published in the frontiers of psychology, scientists investigated the role of

cognitive and neuroscience in understanding, predicting, and potentially improving elite sport performance.

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