Listen To Music For a Exercise Boost

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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