Whenever you exercise your heart increases it's load, pumping blood to the muscles. The brain also benefits from this extra blood flow.
The Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card indicates that academic performance increases with physical activity. A large American study has also shown that physically active children have a stronger academic performance.
The benefit to the brain as a result of exercise is not limited to kids. Daily aerobic exercise improves memory, learning and attention in older adults as well. In addition this benefit is effective even if you start the exercise later in life.
As for the working adult, exercise has been shown to improve he two most common mental components of our work lives; planning and multitasking. Regular exercise should improve your efficiency at work by keeping you both energized and organized.
Exercise has been shown to work on memory as well. After just thirty minutes of aerobic workout, individuals performed better on a memory test in a recent study. This is helpful at all ages.