What types of exercise keep my mind sharp?
What types of exercise keep my mind sharp? Things that keep your mind sharp are exercises with hand eye coordination, racquetball, tennis, golf - things like that will surprisingly keep your mind very sharp. Anything that requires coordination. I personally enjoy karate. I think it's great. It's for discipline, it's for fitness, it does so many different things for you. And when you're doing something like that, when you're jumping through the air, and you're fighting with someone or you're working on a form or a kata, or whatever it is (I'm using karate as an example), you can't focus on anything else. So it keeps you sharp because you're having to think about balance, you're having to think about being defensive, you're having to think about whatever it is that you're doing. Let's take motorcycle riding, for example. Some people like speed or the wind in their hair. That's good for mental agility too because you're concentrating on not just your realm and what you are doing on your machine, but what you're doing, what's going on around you. You have to be so perceptive of everything in your environment. So whatever you can do to engage all of your senses will keep you sharp. In the more sedate realm of things, crosswords, word games, Sudoku, chess, even poker - anything with numbers and letters and stuff that keeps your mind working at a fast pace is all really, really great, thinking games.
