ACTIVE RECOVERY FOR YOUR BRAIN

YOU CRUSH IT in the weight room or on the track, and you know better than to go back out and do the same thing again the next day. You’ve got to offset those high-octane workouts with “rest” days of low-intensity activity to help pummelled muscles bounce back more quickly than they would if you just recovered on the couch. Same goes for your brain. Hustling 24/7 turns it into mush, too. And it turns out that the best way to un-mush your brain looks a whole lot like the active recovery techniques you apply after the gym. Which means they require a little energy and a bit of strategy.

Last year, research published by scientists including Andrew Bennett, who’s now in the department