{"id":1819,"date":"2015-12-10T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2015-12-10T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:17:37","slug":"strong-legs-strong-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/strong-legs-strong-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Legs, Strong Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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December 8, 2015<\/dd>\n
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Health Insider<\/dd>\n
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King\u2019s College London<\/a><\/dd>\n
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Leg power may predict how well you think<\/em> 10 years from now. In a study of 324 healthy identical twins, those with stronger legs did better than their siblings on cognitive tests a decade later. Their brains were bigger, too.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s so special about legs? They contain the largest muscles in the body, so strong legs are a good stand-in for overall fitness. (This study didn\u2019t look at men, but others have found that fitness is good for the brains in both genders.)<\/p>\n

So get those gams in shape with regular running, swimming, biking\u2014or the most popular exercise, walking<\/a>. Walk mindfully and you might get happier<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

Just avoid these seven common walking mistakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Source:<\/strong> Study titled \u201cKicking Back Cognitive Ageing: Leg Power Predicts Cognitive Ageing after Ten Years in Older Female Twins\u201d by researchers at King\u2019s College London published in Gerontology<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published December 8, 2015 Publication Health Insider Source King\u2019s College London Print Leg power may predict how well you think 10 years from now. In a study of 324 healthy identical twins, those with stronger legs did better than their siblings on cognitive tests a decade later. Their brains were bigger, too. What\u2019s so special … Continue reading Strong Legs, Strong Mind<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-your-body","pmpro-has-access"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4MGMb-tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}