This is the Gatsy Health podcast with Janique and Tristan Roney.

Hey guys, welcome back to the Gsy health podcast. Hi, everyone.

Tristan Still has lost his voice and we happen to be recording a bunch of podcasts this week and next week with him with his voice lost.

So you get to hear this for the next couple of months.

So yay.

Oh, that's really exciting.

That's okay. You guys, we have a really great guest on today. Her name is Jennifer Etnier, and she has a lot behind her. She has done research that focuses on cognitive benefits of physical activity, and she's a fellow at the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Academy of Kinesiology.

A lot of buzzwords there that she's going to break down for you guys today.

Dr. Ednyer has also written two books for the public titled Bring Your A-game and Coaching for the Love of the Game.

So we're going to be talking mostly today about the cognitive benefits of exercise and the research that she's done behind that. And what's really cool is she, like her research has been, we were

talking before, her research was quoted in one of my most favorite books called Spark,

which talks about exercise and brain health. So Dr. Etneyer, welcome. and please introduce yourself who you are, how you got here,

what you do. Oh, thank you so much. Thanks for having me, Janique, and Tristan. I'm really excited for

this opportunity. I'm a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. And as you mentioned,

I'm in the area of sport and exercise psychology, and the majority of my research for my career

has really focused on how exercise and physical activity might be used to benefit cognitive

performance or our ability to perform thinking types of tasks.

So I'm just thrilled to have the chance to talk with you.

I love it.

This is a really exciting topic for us.

I'm going to try to

talk. We'll see how this because we actually haven't covered anything exercise specific in like over a

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