Music During Exercise

Have you ever wondered how you can improve your training with one simple change? Music influences everyday life in many ways. Music can change mood and give energy to get people through the day. People use music to help them workout, study,doing chores and other everyday activities. Music is a great tool for training to increase performance and push a person to the next level especially while running. Many people use music to help them run but do not know the reasoning behind why music helps during exercise.

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I will be having the subject warmup and stretch as they normally would. For the first day I will not be providing music and they will run with no music during the mile and the 50m sprint after the first day I will then give them

Therefore improving the runner’s performance depending on the music volume and

Auditory-Motor synchronization is the body’s ability to synch it’s motor skills and movement to audio like music or a just a consistent beat. This is seen a lot in runners because they will use music to provide them with a beat to match for their pace (Bood, Nijssen, van der Kamp, & Roerdink 2013). This happens because their body’s heart will first match the beat then the muscles the heart is sending blood to will sync the motor movement to the beat and keep it consistent therefore improving their running time. Activating a person’s Auditory-Motor synchronization can improve performance greatly for many activities. The body’s ability to do activate this power is seen from early life. This is seen when infants will have the tendency to wiggle to music or another beat even though they can not fully control motor movement which shows that auditory-motor synchronization is a natural body process (Bood et al., 2013). Thus this shows people could train their body to activate this ability very easily if trained from an early age to use during any exercise or training to better the performance during training. With this information and training the ability a person could easily improve their performance with just a simple beat or pattern to listen to during the