{"id":14050,"date":"2019-02-25T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2019-02-16T17:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T01:27:50","slug":"q-will-brain-training-apps-help-my-track-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-will-brain-training-apps-help-my-track-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Will brain training apps help my track driving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cI have a question about a topic in your Speed Secrets book. In the book you talk a lot about the mental side of racing and a lot of the specific cognitive abilities that race car drivers need. I\u2019ve been using brain training apps like Lumosity and Peak and I was wondering if doing brain training to improve in areas such as processing speed, mental agility, focus, coordination and others would be helpful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: While I\u2019ve not yet seen any scientific research that has been done with drivers and the types of apps you\u2019re talking about (at least none that I\u2019ve found yet), I feel that they do help. I\u2019ve used Lumosity and a few other apps, and believe they help. But how much, I can\u2019t say. Again, I\u2019ve never seen any scientific data to prove this, but I\u2019m confident when saying these apps will not hurt anything. And hey, if it gives you a 0.001% improvement, why not use it, right?<\/p>\n<p>My own experience is that when I use these apps \u2013 and any digital game \u2013 it seems to help the amount of time I\u2019m able to maintain mental focus. So I\u2019m going to say they help.<\/p>\n<p>Also, on a recent webinar, Fitness for Drivers, that I did with Trey Shannon (Podium Performance Fitness), he shared how he uses many of these mental training apps while having drivers doing some form of physical activity. This could be doing a plank, cardio training, or in a sauna to acclimate to heat, for example. The idea is to stress the mind while being physically stressed, which sounds an awfully lot like performance or race driving, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cI have a question about a topic in your Speed Secrets book. In the book you talk a lot about the mental side of racing and a lot of the specific cognitive abilities that race car drivers need. I\u2019ve been using brain training apps like Lumosity and Peak and I was wondering if doing brain training to improve in areas such as processing speed, mental agility, focus, coordination and others would be helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14116,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions\/14116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}