Why you should play sports with music

About five years ago, I discovered that running to music compares favorably with training to the sound of heavy breathing and stamping feet. Since then I have been running, pedaling and doing crossfit sets exclusively with headphones.

With cheerful music you move faster, you get many times more pleasure and do not even notice that it is hard for you. As the scientific evidence shows, it doesn't just work for me.

Music is easier to study

Listening to rhythmic melodies, people endure workouts much easier.The BASES Expert Statement on Use of Music in Exercise, Self ‑ Selected Motivational Music on the Performance and Perceived Exertion of Runnersthan in silence or under other people's conversations. It works for the lungs tooTunes for training: High-tempo music may make exercise easier and more beneficial loads like walking on a path, and for runningEffects of Music During Exercise in Different Training Status, Competition Between Internal and External Sources of Information During Exercise: Influence on RPE and the Impact of the Exercise Load

and classesInfluence of Music on Ratings of Perceived Exertion During 20 Minutes of Moderate Intensity Exercise on a simulator with medium intensityEffects of motivational music on work output and affective responses during sub-maximal cycling of a standardized perceived intensity.

Also, vigorous tracks smooth out unpleasant emotions from muscle fatigue during strengthMusical Agency Reduces Perceived Exertion During Strenuous Physical Performance exercise and increaseMusic Enhances Performance and Perceived Enjoyment of Sprint Interval Exercise pleasure from intense interval training.

Music lowersMusic in the exercise domain: a review and synthesis (Part II) the level of perceived efforts during physical activity by 10–19%.

Scientists suggestMusic in the exercise domain: a review and synthesis (Part I)that this is due to the peculiarities of the transmission of nerve impulses to the brain. When you listen to music, sound signals compete with information from your body, which tells you how hard it is. As a result, you pay less attention to bodily discomfort and enjoy your favorite tracks.

However, when it comes to really hard work, the body's signals become too insistent and music can no longer block them. Therefore, even the most motivating tracks are not particularlyInfluence of Music on Wingate Anaerobic Test Performance, The effect of music type on running perseverance and coping with effort sensations help when you are working at high intensity. It's as hard for you as it is without accompaniment, but you get a little more. exercise pleasure.

In addition, the magic effect of the sounds depends on the level of sports training. Professional athletes do not experienceEffects of Music During Exercise in Different Training Status strong relief and pleasure from the musical accompaniment, but beginners and amateurs almost always.

Scientists believeEffects of Music on Physiological and Affective Responses to Graded Treadmill Exercise in Trained and Untrained Runnersthat the whole point is in the level of effort, as well as in the habit of the pros to concentrate on work and not be distracted by extraneous factors.

Music helps you do more

Energetic tracks with a tempo of 120-140 bpm work like a real legal doping.

Listening to these tunes helpsEfekti muzike na primetan stepen napora (naprezanja) i izvođenje treniranih i netreniranih individua tokom progresivnog vežbanja, Psychophysical and Ergogenic Effects of Synchronous Music During Treadmill Walking do endurance exercises longer, makes you run fasterThe Effects of Music Tempo and Loudness Level on Treadmill Exercise, A Motivational Music and Video Intervention Improves High ‑ Intensity Exercise Performance, twistThe Effects of Contingent ‑ Monetary Reinforcement and Music on Exercise in College Students, Effects of Differentiated Music on Cycling Time Trial pedal and swimPre-task Music Improves Swimming Performance.

It's easier for people to give their all to music.Effects of Psychological Priming, Video, and Music on Anaerobic Exercise Performance, Effect of Pre-Task Music on Sports or Exercise Performance to the fullest both in short power test sprints and during longA Motivational Music and Video Intervention Improves High ‑ Intensity Exercise Performance work at maximum speed.

In addition, motivating melodies help to endure a burning sensation in the muscles during isometric exercise. If you've ever wanted to set a personal best in plank, try to do it with music: this way you can last longerCarry-over Effects of Music in an Isometric Muscular Endurance Task hold out.

Music speeds up recovery

You can listen to melodic rhythms not only in the process, but also after your workout. Relaxing compositions helpEvaluation on the Effects of Relaxing Music on the Recovery From Aerobic Exercise ‑ Induced Fatigue lower heart rate and blood pressureEffect of Different Musical Tempo on Post ‑ Exercise Recovery in Young Adults, as well as generally recover faster.

If you need active recovery, energetic tracks will make you move when there is almost no strength left. After an intense race, people are more cheerfulEffect of Motivational Music on Lactate Levels During Recovery From Intense Exercise stirring to the music, which helps to reduce the level of lactate in the blood and the speedy improvement of well-being.

Music helps you get used to your workouts

You can repeat to a person indefinitely about the benefits of exercise for health, but he will notEffects of Music in Exercise and Sport: A Meta ‑ Analytic Reviewif not motivated by important goals and pleasure from the process.

• Important goals - this is usually a good figure. Appearance motivates people much more than health, but if the stomach does not go away in a few weeks, but muscles do not pump up (and most often they do), motivation fades away and the person stops exercising.
• The pleasure of the process - the motivation is much more stable. If sports are perceived as enjoyable, you are more likely to go for a run or go to the gym after a hard day's work. After all, this is not a punishment, but a way to relax and have a good time.

Music helpsMusic in the exercise domain: a review and synthesis (Part II) turn training into a source of positive emotions. You will get high at firstThe influence of self-selected music on affect ‑ regulated exercise intensity and remembered pleasure during treadmill running from your playlist, and as you work in your brain, it will increaseHow to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs the level of serotonin - the hormone of pleasure.

You will end up with a happy, calm and contented workout and want to do it again.

Make up playlist from your favorite bouncy tracks, picking up those that motivate you to move, and go!

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