People can be taught to adopt a narrowed focus of attention strategy for exercise.

“And our work found that too, that people can do that, we have them say out loud, "What is it that's captured your attention?" And of course, "Sometimes something in the periphery, like movement, captures our gaze and we are pulled there for an instant, but then we can refocus up again and adopt that narrowed attention."”

“And what we found is that those people that we trained, just everyday normal people doing this this moderately challenging exercise, they were able to move 27% faster. They could do the exercise more quickly, and they said it hurt 17% less.”

“So, that's what we're teaching people to use, and that's what seems to be effective to maintain that focus rather than sort of being pulled to engage with peripheral vision.”