article_snippet.sent: Do yoga at lunchtime .
article_snippet.sent: Aerobic exercise is good for your heart and health but a lunchtime yoga class will help you stay sharp.
article_snippet.sent: After yoga you are better able to focus and process information quickly, more accurately.
article_snippet.sent: In one study, reported in the, researchers gave participants a series of yoga exercises, including isometric contractions of different muscles in the body.
article_snippet.sent: The exercises were followed by a meditation session, when participants focused on posture and deep breathing.
article_snippet.sent: After the yoga session participants were given a series of mental tests.
article_snippet.sent: Aerobic exercise is good for your heart and health but a lunchtime yoga class will help you stay sharp .
article_snippet.sent: the guinea pigs found that people who had been for a 20-minute jog were less able to focus mentally on tasks than the guinea pigs were following a yoga session.
article_snippet.sent: Also those who had done yoga could learn, hold and update pieces of information more effectively than after performing an aerobic exercise.
article_snippet.sent: Breathing and meditative yoga calms the mind and body, reducing distracting thoughts while you focus on your body, posture or breath.
article_snippet.sent: The scientists in the study believed that this could have a beneficial, wider-reaching effect on your day, beyond the yoga class, when you try to focus on tasks requiring concentration.