I don’t know about you or anybody else for that matter but when I am, doing research or exercising I find that listening to music helps me to keep focused, and also I find that what I am doing is more enjoyable. Certainly from a exercise point of view I have found it very beneficial, I think this is probably one of the reasons why gyms tend to have music television piped through.

Because they know it helps people to enjoy their work out all that much more, when people are exposed to up the tempo music in restaurants they tend to eat more food, whereas when slower music is being played then they tend to eat less.

If you apply this theory to exercise accompanied with music it is probably plain to see why, your far more likely to enjoy it and want to work harder than if you wasn’t listening to the music.

Some research that was done at Brunel University of sport is now backing up this claim also, they are saying that it can increased your physical endurance, and will make your experience of doing cardiovascular exercise, that more enjoyable and you will gain a more positive experience from it.

The study which has been done over a 20-year period which goes into the psychological effects, music has on people and their motivation. Thirty participants were chosen to listen to some music while exercising on a treadmill.

They listened to a variety of different genres of music namely, Madonna, Red Hot chili Peppers and Queen they were asked to keep, in time with the music is.

The findings from the study showed that their endurance went up by 15 percent whilst listening to the music, they found that music can push people beyond their endurance levels even when they are close to physical exhaustion.

This research is going to be put into practice at a run in London which took place on the fifth of October 2008 the Sony Erickson run will be the first event that will have carefully chosen music, played throughout the whole event along speakers along the track I should imagine.

And and feedback will be obtained from people to see how it affects them, and if it does in actual fact give them more endurance when they are doing their work out, I have to say myself, it does seem to work for me when I’m listening to positive upbeat music, pushing myself and exerting myself.

Seems all part of the process listening to the music I find takes my mind off what I am doing, and the time seems to go quicker as well, do you have any experiences of listening to music and if so would you say it helps you while you are doing your exercise.

If it does I would be very interested to know how it affects you and does it make you want to work harder, while you are working out.

Source http://www.brunel.ac.uk

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Have you ever noticed that when you’re in a quiet room, doing whatever it is you do things at times can seem rather too quiet, now myself I love peace and quiet, because sometimes you need it when you are trying to focus on a particular task in order to get it done.

Until just recently I used to do all my blog posts in complete and utter silence, now while there is nothing particularly wrong with this, I always used to think that having something in the background, distracting me would somehow cause me to lack focus.

But I decided just recently that I would try listening to music in the background to see how it would affect my way of doing things, surprisingly when the music is not there I really do miss it, I almost feel lost without it.

And I have come across information from various sources that suggests that when you do listen to music it has a two fold effect, it can change your mood and make you feel more motivated in order to do things.

Case in point when you go to a restaurant and they have music on you will probably notice that it is quite slow the reason for this is slow music will make you eat slower, therefore keep you in a restaurant longer and eat more food.

Supermarkets use this tactic as well and shops as a whole use this tactic quite a lot at Christmas, it gets you into the overall mood of it.

The whole point behind this post is if you are lacking motivation in your exercise, then my advice would be to listen to some music that you enjoy, and the whole thing will seem a lot more enjoyable, and the time will pass a lot quicker.

Just to add to this theory, a study was done revolving around people who had respiratory problems, what the researchers found was that, the people that listened to music, were able to walk farther than those people who didn’t listen to music.

The group were studied over a eight work period the group that have music to listen to were given country and western, Motown and big band music to listen to as they walked while the other group had no music to listen to at all.

Over the eight week period the music group walked further than the group who didn’t listen to music, now here is where it gets really fascinating the music group walked 20 miles compared to the non-music group who only walked 12 miles, that is a huge difference when you think that all they did was listen to some music.

And to add to this further the music group were far less likely to suffer from depression as opposed to the non-music group. The researchers came to the conclusion that the music somehow acted as a distraction although quite how it worked they wasn’t too sure.

Perhaps you could say that because they were listening to something that changed their mood this overall helped them to feel better, so they felt that they could achieve more overall.

Here is something you could try do some exercise without listening to music, then try listening to music doing exercise and see if you are willing to do more exercise when you’re listening to music.

I listen to sky.fm the 80s on my computer when I’m writing post

And I have another question for you do you listen to music while you are exercising ? and if so do you think it helps.

Leave a comment for me and let me know as I would be quite interested to know if this is the case.

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