“Music & workout” – Delna Pooniwala.
What music do you like listening to at the gym? Does this music help you through your workout?
Have you ever wondered why, no matter what happened an hour ago at work or home, you can run away to the gym and use the music tunes to help you escape negativity and power you through your workout.
Listening to music can drown our brain’s cries of fatigue. As our body realizes we’re tired and wants to stop exercising, but music competes for our brain’s attention, and can help us to override those signals of fatigue, helping us complete the workout. Not only can we push through the pain to exercise longer and harder when we listen to music, but it can actually help us to use our energy more efficiently.
Songs between 120 & 140 beats per Minuit have the maximum effect on general gym exercisers.
Our memory also gets stimulated with music from certain movies that we may have seen and hence when we hear the training track from Rocky or the chase track from Fast & Furious or the ‘Dhoom’ number, we feel more charged with energy and the song acts as motivational power.
Music is extremely important as the rhythm of your workout music stimulates the motor reflexes of the brain as to when to move, thereby aiding self-paced exercises such as running or weight-lifting. Clueing into these time signals helps in using our energy more efficiently.
Do share the tracks you personally like playing at gym. It would be nice to know if we all listen to similar stuff!!
