Kate S. Seriña English 27- Z Engaging in Physical Activities can Improve Cognitive Performance Background on Physical activity Physical activity is known to be the movement of the body that practically uses energy, like walking, running, jogging, hopping, gardening or any form of exerting effort and energy. Physical fitness can be an important role in our lives since it keeps us healthy and avoids us from getting sick. According to Quentin (2012), students are mentally healthy because they’re physically active. Engaging to physical activity like engaging in different sports can be an outlet to anything you have been going through, it’s either stress on work, school or at home. Many student-athletes gained their …show more content…
The skills gained from doing sports, such as learning to focus and to improvise could improve your academic performance (Gil, 2014). Being healthy requires you to basically engage to physical activities, these benefits are mainly on improving your bone health, avoids you from having hypertension (high blood pressure), coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other cancers, it can also help you manage your weight. Students are advised to make time in engaging to physical activities since practically it can make you feel healthy, it can also boost the student’s mental wellbeing. Exercising can be a big help during taking the exams because it can help you focus and calm your mind, by exercising you will feel more refreshed and energized hence it will lead you in performing better in your studies. Being active doesn’t require a lot of time and effort, even if you are fast walking for one to two hours every week can give you many health benefits. All of these health benefits, exercising can also make you gain a lot of friends. You can be physically, mentally and be socially active. All of these three factors at the same time. Background in Cognitive Performance Cognitive performance is the ability of