Intelligent Exercises
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael reveals the best exercises you can do – to help your heart and your brain. He now does press ups every morning – having discovered research that shows being able to do 10 could help you live longer, and doing 40 nearly doubles your protection against heart disease. But strength exercises can do more than just improve your muscle tone and heart. Michael speaks to Professor Damian Bailey at University of South Wales who’s been researching the effects of exercise on your brain. He’s discovered that one of the best exercises you can do to boost your brain power is the simple squat. Michael discovers how many and how long you need to do them for to get the best benefit – and it’s surprisingly little!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out |
| 0:24.4 | where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:38.0 | Right, one more. We'd all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're bombarded with often conflicting advice. |
| 0:49.0 | So if you were going to do just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being, what should it be? |
| 0:55.8 | Maybe a few squats to enhance your brain. |
| 0:59.0 | Or more bacteria to improve your mood. |
| 1:02.0 | Or even a cold shower to boost your immune system. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will explore one thing you can start doing tomorrow to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect. up, two, three. I'm doing something that I try to do every day. |
| 1:27.0 | Oof, I'm doing something that I try to do every day. |
| 1:30.0 | Press-ups. We all know that aerobic exercise like running, walking, swimming or |
| 1:37.0 | cycling is good for your heart and lungs. But on top of that, there is just one thing I recommend you add to your daily routine |
| 1:46.9 | resistance exercise like press-ups |
| 1:52.2 | There's fascinating new research and the benefits of strength work-outs |
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