Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by FrozenSynapse on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:55AM
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It depends on what you want to accomplish. For me a 30 minute session of yoga is much harder than an hour of strength training. Also, they achieve different things, Yoga strenghtens your mind and your body, you touch every part of the body with yoga, weight lifting misses some of them.
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Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by andrepd on Friday September 10, 2021 @06:45AM
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What? A good weight lifting routine which incorporates squats, deadlifts, dumbbell rows, bench presses and little more, will absolutely strengthen every single part of your body. As for mind benefits, I can't speak to the scientific evidence of either, but in a physiological level I don't see why weights should be any worse.
Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by FartyMcFarter on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:35AM
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Weight lifting doesn't train balance, whole-body coordination or flexibility as much as yoga or calisthenics would.
Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by pc86 on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:29AM
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There's a difference between not touching something and training is less. Weightlifting touches on all three of those things ("flexibility" is usually called range of motion w/r/t weightlifting though).
Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by User23 on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:20PM
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Weightlifting trains balance extremely well. A max effort power snatch for example requires excellent balance.
Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by bamboozled on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:22AM
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Are you kidding? Have you ever snatched heavy? thrown around kettlebells ?
Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by FartyMcFarter on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:29AM
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I'm not an expert, but handstands and similar skills might require more precision and whole-body balance than any weight-lifting exercise?
Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by polishdude20 on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:57AM
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Balance is heavily trained with heavy weights as well because now, not only do you have to move and balance yourself, you need to do it with a heavy weight on your back for example.
It's hard to compare the two though because one might day that, in old age, being able to do a handstand is less important than being able to haul groceries along uneven terrain standing up.