Combine aerobic and skilled activities: This way you get the host of benefits
from aerobic exercise with the crossover of the complex skill learning.
Benefits are often
derived from aerobic exercise, martial arts, music, and fine arts — whatever it takes to provide your child with a therapeutic outlet.
Let me also say that I don't want to completely scare people
away from aerobic exercise... especially athletes, many of whom need aerobic training in order to succeed at their sport.
So, exposing your cells to large quantities of antioxidants may reduce some of the fitness benefits you
get from aerobic exercise — but what about resistance training?
The results indicate that the highest number of new hippocampal neurons was observed in rats that ran long distances and that also had a genetic predisposition to
benefit from aerobic exercise: Compared to sedentary animals, HRT rats that ran voluntarily on a running wheel had 2 - 3 times more new hippocampal neurons at the end of the experiment.