90 tracks for jogging, selected based on the frequency of steps and breathing

The perfect playlist for jogging is not the only one like that, but one that accompanies, like a metronome, and serves as a guide for your movement. Layfhaker offers collections for those who do not know where to start looking for the right music for jogging.

How to choose music for running cadence

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This composition included a selection of many genres, the combined audio unobvious characteristics - the number of beats per minute (bpm). When we run, we do a different number of steps in the range from 160 to 200 in 60 seconds. Professional athletes make about 180 steps per minute, and is considered the best value jogging cadence - frequency surface feet touching the ground.

Listening to music while jogging, we unconsciously synchronize it with the frequency of their steps, so it is it is important to choose the right songs at the initial stages, when the body is not accustomed to a certain cadence running.

If you select the music you are guided to your running cadence, try to pace tracks lying in the range of 170-190 beats per minute or 85-95. If you select a song, the tempo of which is twice less than 180 bpm, then the number of steps in one cycle (four strokes) will increase accordingly. The good news for fans of drum and bass: the genre implies a pace matching the cadence runs (170-180 bpm). The same applies to hip-hop: performance tempo of many compositions close to 90 bpm.

How to choose the music for the respiratory rate

If you do not have problems with the cadence, then pay attention to how your lungs work: this will also help to correctly chosen music.

Consider two breathing techniques, which are posted in the corresponding Layfhaker article. If we breathe in the scheme of 3: 2, where the three steps occur in a breath, and two - on the exhale, you should choose the music at a pace of about 144 bpm. In this case, the song cycle length coincides with one complete respiration cycle.

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If you run up the hill, you have to exert more effort and, as a consequence, your breath quickens. Then try scheme 2: 1 - for two steps breath, one on exhalation. A suitable accompaniment to serve with the music tempo of about 120 bpm. One measure - two breathing cycle.

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How to search for music with a suitable rate

To learn bpm track record, check the availability of the database SongBPM. If it did not find it, use special calculator: Simply "poklikat" on the screen in time with the music. There are also special services with a playlist of songs in a certain pace for athletes or cyclists. One of them is JogWhich ranks the tracks in the number of additions to the custom playlists and bpm, as well as offering individual collections to your running speed performance.