Fitter Body, Fitter Brain: How Working Out Can Make You Smarter

 

Fitter Body, Fitter Brain: How Working Out Can Make You Smarter

Getting the proper amount of exercise is one of the most important elements to maintaining a healthy, happy lifestyle. It can also keep you from making repeat visits to doctor and nursing offices. From your heart to your waistline and even your mood, working out regularly…

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The future of sports psychology

Is sport psychology the new market inefficiency? The truth about Moneyball, the Michael Lewis book about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, is that many people missed the point. The story, which tracked how the small-market A’s contended with bigger, richer franchises, focused on Beane’s use…

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Ajax bouwt een brug tussen wetenschap en praktijk

Het is de 89ste minuut en het staat 0-0. De aanvaller van Ajax loopt recht op de keeper af en kiest een hoek uit. De aanloop is allesbeslissend voor het resultaat weet de spits die enkele dagen daarvoor geanalyseerd is door Vosse de Boode bewegingswetenschapper…

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The neuroscience of sports

The neuroscience of sports Sports are 90-per-cent mental (the other half, by former Major League Baseball great Yogi Berra’s math, being physical). You’d be hard-pressed to find a pro sports team or a Sochi-bound Olympian who doesn’t work on their mental game. What we know: Experience…

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