The last several decades have revealed a plethora of information regarding how to develop and maintain optimal brain health and fitness as we age including the critical role that healthy lifestyle behaviors play in that process. 

Exercise has emerged as one of the most important variables that influences cognition in late life.  In this session we will explore the role of different types of exercise on brain health and fitness in older adulthood including novel strategies to impact cognitive performance specifically. 

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand how exercise beneficially impacts the brain
  • Learn how to add cognitive load to standard exercise to, more specifically, impact cognitive ability.
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Cody Sipe, PhD

CEO, Marbles Brain Body Fitness
Co-Founder, Functional Aging Institute

Cody Sipe, MS, PhD, DipACLM is an author, award-winning fitness professional, international educator, researcher, and active aging expert who has worked with older adults for over 30 years.  He is Full Professor in a University Doctoral Physical Therapy Program; CEO of Marbles Fitness (the first brain gym franchise for older adults); and co-founder of the Functional Aging Institute. 

 

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