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GLOSSARY: different muscle groups. Circuit training
THE CEREBRUM: The largest part of refers to how a workout routine is
the brain, the cerebrum initiates and structured rather than a specific type of
coordinates movement and regulates exercise.
temperature. Other areas of the cerebrum NEUROPLASTICITY: also known as
enable speech, judgment, thinking and neural plasticity, or brain plasticity, is the
reasoning, problem-solving, emotions and ability of neural networks in the brain to
learning. Other functions relate to vision, change through growth and reorganisation.
hearing, touch and other senses It is when the brain is rewired to function
COGNITION: The mental action or process in some way that differs from how it
of acquiring knowledge and understanding previously functioned.
through thought, experience, and the SYNAPSES: refer to the points of contact
senses. between neurons where information
CIRCUIT TRAINING: is a type of is passed from one neuron to the next.
workout that involves rotating through Synapses most often form between axons
a circuit of up to 10 exercises that target and dendrites.
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