Give Your Brain a Workout: Here’s a Fitness Routine That’s Healthy, Easy, and Fun

Give Your Brain a Workout: Here’s a Fitness Routine That’s Healthy, Easy, and Fun
Just as exercise is vital to keep our bodies strong, so too are mental exercises beneficial to our brains and cognitive functions. Fei Meng
Jeff Minick
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Hear the word “exercise,” and any number of scenarios may pop to mind. Some people may whisper to themselves—count me among them—“I need to join a gym.” Others may recollect the evenings they spend jogging around the neighborhood. A select few may reflect on their arduous CrossFit training.

But even fewer, if any, will think of doing crossword puzzles, playing chess, learning a new language, or playing the guitar.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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