What psychology tells us about listening to tunes — can music really influence your workout?
There is a wealth of research on the impact of music on exercise — but can music really influence your workout? In other words, is there any great benefit in grabbing a pair of the best running headphones if you want to improve your performance? Well, some of the results are quite remarkable.
One of the world's leading experts, Professor Costas Karageorghis, author of Applying Music in Exercise and Sport, tells us just what music does when we exercise. Meanwhile, another study showed participants who listened to music they deemed"pleasing" had higher levels of serotonin as reported in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being . That’s the hormone which promotes positive feelings.
But once someone is exercising at beyond 75% of their VO2 maximum during a high intensity workout music is"relatively ineffectual" in influencing perceptions of exertion. "When you apply music in the synchronous mode where people consciously synchronize their movement pattern to the music that can have an ergogenic or work enhancing effect of 10 to 15%,” says Karageorghis.
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