Andrew Huberman· PhD
Now this study involved looking at 137 young adults. They had multiple sessions where they at first completed cognitive and typing tests, these tests have different names, and you're welcome to look those up if you like, as well as flanker tasks, so these are tasks of attention and things of that sort. And then they either engaged in treadmill or cycling and then there was a comparison. And the statistics were run, and basically what they found was there was a statistically significant improvement in attention and cognitive control scores during any kind of active session, as opposed to just a mere seated session. So they compared seated to cycling to treadmilling. However, verbal memory scores actually got worse during active sessions. So I'll repeat that, treadmilling or the cycling workstations, improved attention and cognitive control scores as compared to people that were just seated and working. However, verbal memory scores got worse during the active sessions, and again, just to repeat, there was no difference between cycling and treadmill workstations. So this is interesting, I suggest that as the author say that active workstations, whether walking or cycling are not only useful to improve caloric output and physical activity, circulation and so on, but particularly when completing tasks like cognitive tasks or tasks that require focus that do not require verbal memory recall.