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If You Are a Coder, Then Jog

Reaching Peak Coding Performance

We live in a fast-paced world of coding. To land a job, keep up and enhance our skills we need to find ways to optimise our habits. One habit that is crucial for enhancing our coding skills is not practising more coding questions or doing more projects, but jogging.

Here, we explore the connection between physical exercise and coding ability and how a simple jog can help us reach our peak coding potential.

The Cognitive Benefits of Jogging

Unsurprisingly, jogging comes with cognitive benefits. It has been discovered that a runners’ brains have varying connections in higher-level thought such as critical thinking and problem solving than the brains of inactive people.

Scientists identified heightened connectivity in the regions of the brain associated with working memory, multitasking, attention, decision-making, and the processing of visual and other sensory information.

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00610/full

Have you every tried coding on 2–3 hours of sleep? Sleep deprivation can cause adverse effects in cognitive performance. Jogging enhances your sleep and can help relieve insomnia which, in turn, helps maintain healthy cognitive function.

Source: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/insomnia/exercise-and-insomnia#:~:text=While%20researchers%20are%20still%20working,you%20spend%20in%20deep%20sleep.

Jogging as a Catalyst for Clarity and Creative Thinking

Coding is an art. It requires creative thinking to overcome tough problems. Ever found yourself stuck on a bug for ages or struggling to come up with new app ideas, a heart-pumping run can boost creativity for up to two hours afterwards enabling you to tackle problems with added confidence and energy.

By providing an escape to distractions, breathing in fresh air, listening to the trees move in the wind and birds chirping, running can be used as a form of relaxation, especially when you start enjoying it.

To think creatively, it is important that you find a balance between being relaxed and alert. Jogging can help you find a calm state of mind, enabling you to tackle coding problems with clarity.

Clear and creative thinking requires the management of stress and running can enhance just that. It can increase concentrations of norepinephrine, a chemical that helps moderate the brain’s response to stress. Running into a bug won’t feel as life-threatening any more.

Source:https://www.cigna.com/knowledge-center/mental-health-benefits-of-running#:~:text=Brainpower%20Boost,%2C%20higher%20thinking%2C%20and%20learning.

Building Endurance for Long Coding Session

Often, as coder, we find ourselves spending ages on getting a particular library to work, resolve a bug or implement a particular feature. Jogging can enhance our mental focus providing us with the ability to stick to problems for longer, until we find that solution.

A study by Antonio Luque-Casado et al. investigated the relationship between aerobic fitness and sustained attention capacity and discovered higher fitness was suggestive of better overall sustained attention demonstrating a better ability to allocate attentional resources over time.

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26694844/

Our ability to resist distractions determines our success as a programmer. Running can enhance our attention span and increase our ability to resist distraction.

Struggling to Jog?

Sit down and decide, where, when, how often and why? For example the local park, 9 am, once every two days, to become a better learner. Write this down in your diary or piece of paper and have it visible.

Having this written down improves clarity and gives your jog a purpose. With this in mind, all that is left is for you to execute and make it a habit!

Comment below your experience running and how it has helped you navigate life.