©Arlene Taylor PhD

Unless impaired, most individuals can choose to exercise on a regular basis. The preferred routines and the way in which exercising is approached can differ dramatically, especially when sensory preference is addressed.

brain Left Frontal Lobe
  • Decision-based exercise
  • Emphasize control, precision, regularity, and goal achievement
  • May become an exercisaholic
  • Competitive - wants to WIN
  • May gravitate toward golf, skeet, tennis, skiing, running, racquetball, jogging
brain Right Frontal Lobe
  • Spontaneity-based exercise
  • Emphasize high-risk, thrilling, adventurous, or unusual exercise activities
  • Often sporadic rather than regular
  • May compete with self or others based on type of activity and other personal brain characteristics
  • May gravitate toward skeet, spelunking, skiing, hiking, biking, swimming, walking

 

brain Left Posterior Lobes

  • Schedule or prescription-based exercise
  • Emphasize team orientation, rules and regulations, and habitual activities
  • May gravitate toward aerobics, routines, health club membership, fitness class, baseball

 

brain Right Posterior Lobes

  • Collegiality-based exercise
  • Emphasize “fun” exercise with friends (conversation must be involved)
  • May gravitate toward jazzercise, dancing, exercise to music or in concert with a video presentation