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Intellectuals often take up cycling or running, notice the benefits and then claim cycling and running are great for the mind. Kind of makes me wonder if they'd
by Benjamin_Dobell 10y ago
Intellectuals often take up cycling or running, notice the benefits and then claim cycling and running are great for the mind. Kind of makes me wonder if they'd ever exercised before.
As long as I don't completely exhaust myself, I tend to feel much better after I exercise, which includes playing ball sports... I just don't do it nearly as often as I should!
- fian 10y agoTeam sports require you to process a large stream of input information as a stream for a 1-2 hour window. In my experience (social league basketball, volleyball, soccer, mixed netball) I switch off subconscious (deep) thought processing and focus on handling the high volume of (shallow) inputs from reading other players movements, communicating audibly and feeling through touch/proprioception. Cycling and running (or hiking), especially solo and on quiet roads or trails does the opposite. You can process a much smaller amount of input information required for navigation and hazard avoidance in "autopilot" mode. This frees your mind to process your subconscious thoughts in a daydream like (meditative?) way. So to me, both activities are useful ways to modify my thought processes. Team sports let me switch off or de-prioritise my subconscious for a while. Cycling or running lets me work through a subconscious queue.
- pjc50 10y agoOften not, or only at school where exercise is a miserable, mandatory thing.