How working out with music can get you better results?
Music is one of the most fascinating things that help us to relax, and enjoy what we are doing. But when music is paired with workouts, it acts as a type of legal performance-enhancing drug.
You may workout at home or at the gym, whether you pull heavy machines and weights or you practice calisthenics, your favorite genre of music ( it could be jazz, country, or classic) boosts you up to workout with more efficiency and increases your speed. Good music can distract you from the physical and mental strain that a hard workout can cause.
Music may even promote metabolic efficiency. When listening to music, people run farther, bike longer, and swim faster than usual — often without realizing it.
But the question arises that:
What is good music and How can I choose good music for my workout?
There can never be a definition for good music, it all depends on person to person, and culture to culture. Personal preferences are all that matters, you can play any genre or any tone of the music.
According to a report: The most popular types of music listened to during exercise were hip hop (27.7%), rock (24%), pop (20.3%), and country (12.7%). But this does not say that you should also start listening to hip hop or rock, you can play your Bollywood or regional songs that you like, there is no one to judge you (I personally play Punjabi songs during workout).
You can also play different music/songs during a different kind of exercise.
The most common modes of exercise while listening to a PMP( personal music player) were free weights (27.2%), treadmill (26%), machine weights (19.6%), and elliptical trainer (17.4%). The most common reasons to listen to a PMP were “to work out harder,” (22.4%) “make the exercise seem easier,” (21.4%), and “to work out longer” (20.2%).
Just create a playlist of your favorite songs and you are ready to start.
Here are the best ways by which music can help you to get better results during workouts.
Music Makes you exercise harder
While listening to music, a person working out is likely to focus more on the beats and less on fatigue and pain.
Music is the good kind of distraction.
People listening to music easily forget about or ignore pain and fatigue. And they end up exercising much harder than those who aren't listening to music. It also delays tiredness and motivates you to keep going even in physical discomfort.
People listening to music are likely to workout 15% more intensively than those who don't listen to music.
Synchronize the beats and make a rhythmic response
The human body has a natural tendency of synchronizing with the beats or lyrics of a song. Even, fast-paced and energetic music is more likely to pace your workout. It again depends on your choice, whatever music you may like, but some studies have shown that maximum results are shown with 120–140 bpm(beats per minute).
Motivates you and help you keep going
It is quite natural not to feel that good someday, but our favorite music makes us feel good even then, it happens to me as well, whenever I don't feel like a workout but as soon as I reach the gym and listen to my favorite song being played there, all my energy comes back and I start feeling charged again.
Lifts up your mood
Not only during the exercise, but music has always been one thing that definitely lifts anyone's mood. It is because we lose ourselves in music and disconnect from the unpleasant activities. With some songs, we have our special memories and when we listen to those songs, we are likely to remember those moments that make us feel good again.
Helps in fast recovery
Post-workout when heart rates are quite high, slow music helps in recovering faster. It slows down heartbeats and lowers blood pressure. Lo-fi or smooth music reduces cardiac and mental stress as well.
The variation in music that I mentioned above comes here as high-intensity music helps during the workout while slow music helps post-workout.
But it is a well-known fact that music is the best way to increase one's effectiveness during a workout and helps in reaching the highest level without much fatigue and pain.
