Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)

Re:Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for bra... by ChuckMcM on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:02PM (#23951962)

That is an excellent analogy, it is similar to martial arts and Tai Chi.

That said, professional athletes I've known pay a lot of attention to their specific form when doing actions to minimize energy and maximize power.

It appears to me to be the difference between actively managing how your body moves versus just letting it do what ever to get the action done.

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Re:Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for bra... by quickthrower2 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:19PM (#23952080)

I would guess Yoga is good for this too then. And I imagine if this this the case "drunken night club dancing" might not count - you would need to deliberately practice dancing?

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Re:Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for bra... by ChuckMcM on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:29PM (#23952136)

I would guess that a good follow on paper would be to look at any activity which involved active kinematic management of the body to see if it had similar markers.

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