Mental work exhausts physical strengths ...

If you all the day "strain brains" and activly to use mental faculties, by the evening most likely you will not have forces not only on employment by physical exercises, but even on ordinary walk. To such conclusion the Canadian psychotherapists of University MakMaster have come, having made 8-week experiment on volunteers.

In tests participants should name colour on a picture, signed by a wrong word for example, red colour was designated by a word "dark blue" - the problem consisted in to reading a word, and to name colour. After cognitive problems performance demanding self-regulation of informative possibilities of a brain, participants were not capable so activly to go in for sports, as people from group to which had not to solve problems. Besides, people lost will power to exercise stress performance. Neurologists believe, that active mental work can lead to larger physical weariness, than exercises.

Nevertheless scientists consider, that opening does not mean, that at the people who are engaged in mental work, there was an occasion to lay on a sofa in the evening. According to researchers, there are ways to restore will power and nevertheless not to pass physical employment: so, listening of fast music and drawing up of the concrete plan of day can help.

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