Exercise and Cognition

By Edward Laux

Exercise is a powerful tool for enhancing mental performance and cognitive health. Whether you want to improve your memory, enhance your problem solving abilities, reduce your risk of Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, or bend metal and shoot lasers with your mind – exercise has an important role to play in all but two of those activities. In particular, richer exercise regimens – regimens consisting of aerobic and resistance training methods, produce the greatest overall improvements in cognitive performance. Note, however, working out for sixteen hours each day won’t turn you into the next Stephen Hawking. There are diminishing returns, and the favorable cerebral environment promoted by exercise is only as good as the active learning that accompanies it. more

Rise of the Hardbodied Woman

By Sergio Prado

Yep.

We've all seen this image on Facebook.

According to this image, voluptuous women used to be the pinnacle of the female form, but now the ideal has shifted to the lithe. To be sure, the BMI of the ideal woman has moved downward. But now, another shift is happening. A new type of woman is becoming the ideal for society: the hardbodied woman. This shift has significant implications for women and their perceived role in society. more

Become a Sex Olympian

By Edward Laux

Sex imposes a unique but rarely discussed set of fitness demands - many of which are easily trained. For the orgasm opportunist, it's important to have excellent cardiovascular fitness, strong and mobile hips, core strength and body control, and of course specific strength and endurance in the muscles of the pelvic floor. Let's examine these in turn:

The need for cardiovascular fitness is obvious – it enables you to sustain sex both for long periods of time and for short but taxing sessions. However, the benefits of cardiovascular fitness in sex do not end there. Vascular fitness in general is important for blood flow to the genitals in both sexes, having the potential to increase the strength of erections in men and the efficiency of vaginal lubrication as well as the facility of orgasm in women. Declining quality of erection in men can, in fact, be a marker for vascular dysfunction, whereas exercise, and aerobic exercise in particular, has been linked to improvements in erectile function... more

Ew. Making chocolate banana pudding out of cottage cheese

By Sergio Prado

1991, rural Missouri. I'm sitting on the floor in my room with a bounty of peanut butter in front of me. I start pouring half a bag of sugar onto the peanut butter as my mother looks into the room. Her mouth agape, she shakes her head, and closes the door.

You can imagine how daunting "eating healthy" was to me when I started. Eating healthy is just code for eating food that tastes like wet sand (although my mother tells me I ate that as well…Sergio for the win.)

Apparently not. At all.

Motivated by my hedonistic love of food and enabled by my lack of shame, I've come up with many recipes/concoctions that are 1) healthy enough to be at the core of my diet, and 2) are effing tasty, almost as good as their unhealthy counterparts. more

First Post!

By Sergio Prado

Welcome to the BodBot BodBlog (the name being inspired by the following clip)

We'll be talking about our thoughts on fitness and nutrition, taking a look at the topics from a scientific, sociological, and psychological perspective.