Increase your decision-making speed - Mental Acuity - effects of exercise on mental agility - Brief Article

Men's Fitness, May, 2002

WHETHER you're appearing on Jeopardy, playing MarioKart on your GameBoy Advance, or just explaining to your girlfriend why the cocktail waitress seems to know you so well, some situations call for quick thinking. Fortunately, there's a simple way to rev up your brain: exercise. In a study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, people who ran on a treadmill for 30 minutes prior to taking a computer test did better on the test than those who did no pretest exercise, and brainwave measurements showed that their decision-making speed had increased.

Of course, the other benefit of treadmill workouts is that when you make bad decisions, you'll be able to run away faster.