Brainfit: 10 Minutes a Day for a Sharper Mind and Memory

by Corinne L. Gediman

Brainfit is a training program designed to reclaim your brain. In 10 to 15 minutes a day individuals who are beginning to feel the effects of memory loss will see immediate reversal of the mental aging process. The 9 distinct, fast and fun weekly workouts focus on a different aspect of brain fitness. This approach fits the lifestyle of the target market - age and intellect appropriate, fast, entertaining, and results oriented. Features

Genres: Health, Science, Self Help, Psychology, Brain, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 29, 2000

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brainfit's an outstanding book for someone whose mind isn't as sharp as it used to be and wants to do something about it. Day by day, it takes you through exercises that teach you new techniques for remembering names, lists, and so on. Most of them are techniques that you already know: mnemonics, acrostics, drawing little pictures, all the things that my teachers taught me in school and that I took for granted at the time. They're presented in a systematic way so that the techniques build on each other and you find the combinations that work best for you. I started by using funny scenes, a "mind palace," or acrostics to represent lists of things, and pictures to represent numbers. I'm playing around with rhymes and drawing little pictures to get more physical with it, too.

It's designed to take just a few weeks; it took me two years because I got sidetracked with other things and other books. Once I committed to it, I saw noticeable results. I only use my grocery list as a backup, and I'm getting better at remembering names and numbers. I've also started doing daily brain teasers to keep myself sharp.

[William Schram · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book utilizes "new" breakthroughs in neuroscience to develop training programs that can improve your mental performance. I put new in quotes because this book came out over a decade ago. While the book is not bad, it isn't exactly great either. My biggest issue is just that I have read all the research before or at least the popular treatments of the research. My other issue with the book is that it is one that you are supposed to write in. This wouldn't be bad if it were my own book, but I got this one from the library and not everyone is as considerate as I am. So someone wrote in this book and it was really quite annoying. My only solace is that they didn't circle the answers to trivia and things.

Brainfit is packed with little anecdotes and bits of trivia intended to help your brain health. There isn't really much there that I haven't already read or heard of before. If you are new to neuroscience or are getting on in years and wish to stave off dementia or some other disease, this book certainly won't hurt.

[Private Account · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe there are some people who this would help but--this was not helpful to me. Though the first few chapters were interesting, all the tricks for remembering stuff... not what I need.

[Kevin Demel · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of different practices but I think there are way too many. I would use this book to identify practices and do them for a week or month at a time in 10 minute spans.

[Jmp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some fun activities some really hard