Why you should play sports with music

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Legal doping and a chance to get used to training faster.

About five years ago, I discovered that running to music compares favorably with training to the sound of panting and stamping feet. Since then I have been running, pedaling and doing crossfit complexes 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 training much easier than in silence or under other people's conversations. This works for light activities like walking on a treadmill, running, and exercising with a simulator at medium intensity.

Also, bouncy tracks smooth out unpleasant emotions from muscle fatigue during strength training and increase the pleasure of intense interval training.

Music reduces perceived effort levels during physical activity by 10–19%.

Scientists suggest that this is due to the nature 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 persistent and music can no longer block them. So even the most motivating tracks don't really help when you're working at high intensity. It's just as hard for you as it is without the accompaniment, but you get a little more pleasure from your workout.

In addition, the magical effect of the sounds depends on the level of sports training. Professional athletes do not experience great relief and pleasure from musical accompaniment, but beginners and amateurs almost always.

Scientists believe that it's all about the level of effort, as well as 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 beats per minute work like a real legal doping.

Listening to such melodies helps to perform endurance exercises longer, makes you run faster, spin, pedal and swim.

It is easier for people to give their best to the music, both in short sprints to test power, and during long 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 your personal best in the bar, try doing it with music so you can last longer.

Music speeds up recovery

You can listen to melodic rhythms not only in the process, but also after your workout. Relaxing compositions help lower heart rate and blood pressure, and 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 move more vigorously to the music, which contributes to a decrease in blood lactate levels and an early improvement in well-being.

Music helps you get used to your workouts

You can endlessly repeat to a person about the health benefits of exercise, but he will not do it if he is not motivated by important goals for himself and the pleasure of the process.

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

Music can help turn your workout into a source of positive emotions. At first, you will get high on your playlist, and as you work your brain will increase 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 a playlist of your favorite bouncy tracks, picking those that motivate you to move, and go!