Active Bodies/Active Minds Initiative

Four experiments demonstrate that walking boosts creative ideation in real time and shortly after.

In conclusion, this study highlights the substantial impact of brief, very light-intensity physical activity, exemplified by two-flight stair-climbing, on augmenting convergent thinking, demonstrating its practical relevance and efficacy in daily life. Contrary to the prevalent emphasis on higher-intensity activities for cognitive benefits, our findings suggest that very light-intensity activities may also offer significant advantages, especially for convergent thinking, necessitating a strategic approach to selecting activity types and intensities to align with desired cognitive outcomes.

Today's sitting is yesterday's smoking! Physical activity is vitally important to your health, but you don't need to join a gym or take an exercise class, you can simply go for a walk!

Short-term aerobic exercise interventions may be more effective in promoting the mental health and well-being of students than cognitive interventions are. Therefore, low- to moderate-intensity exercise (e.g., as the one used in the present study) should be incorporated into daily university schedules.

Stress, anxiety, and depression are serious mental health problems among college student groups. The sedentary behavior of college students was found to be significantly related to their psychological problems in the present study.

Mental and physical health are closely tied, and a deeper understanding of how the mind,
brain, and body are connected has the potential to substantially improve health outcomes.
In particular, a translational approach that integrates research on mind–brain–body connections at multiple levels of analysis (e.g., basic science, patient-oriented, and intervention science perspectives) can contribute toward the development, targeting, and
implementation of mechanistically informed and effective interventions to improve mental and physical health