Runners adding a brain priming exercise to a warmup could hit a new personal best, after University of Birmingham academics showed a 3% improvement in test conditions. In a paper published in the European Journal of Sport Science, a team from the University of Birmingham in UK and Extremadura University in Spain worked with runners who took part in a series of one-mile time trials. The team found that runners completed the course between 2–3% quicker by completing a series of brief cognitive tasks alongside a physical warmup compared to only doing a traditional warmup alone.
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