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

by Corinne L. Gediman

Are you ready to reclaim your brain? Americans spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year striving to stay in good physical shape. What good is a fit body, though, without a fit mind? It’s time to make brain fitness the next battleground on the anti-aging front.

Introducing Brainfit – a fun, flexible, and immediately rewarding 9-week training program designed to improve both your memory and your mental agility. In as little as 10 minutes a day, followers of the Brainfit program will see results. Designed by adult learning specialist Corinne Gediman, Brainfit is structured to provide an immediate reversal in the mental aging process.

The Brainfit routine includes:

Fun and entertaining exercises designed as games and brainteasers A weekly exercise planner for your daily routine Memory tips for each chapter Anti-aging risk assessment and life planner An introduction by Dr. Francis Crinella and a detailed appendix on brain plasticity

And the Brainfit result? A better memory, a more agile brain, and an extended capacity to enjoy your life!

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

307 pages, Hardcover

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