Working-out to Music

It Can Burn More Calories!

Well it has more to do with the fact that music puts you in a mood to exercise longer and motivates you to a more effective workout.  Studies have shown that listening to music during exercise can serve  as a distraction from negatives like fatigue thus intensifying a workout.

Some reasons to dance or exercise to the music

• Working out to your favorite playlist can help you  go on  up to 30 percent longer, thus helping you  burn more calories.
• Music blocks fatigue,  produces feelings of vigor,  and helps you keep pace by synchronizing your movements.
• Music can  affect brain wave patterns, meaning, more energy
• Music improves exercise endurance
• Music puts you in a more positive mood (often an outcome of working out in general),  which is also beneficial to your health.
• If you listen to music while exercising,  your brain will probably work better too.

What music should you dance to?

Fitness experts  have confirmed that pumping up the volume increases exercise endurance and performance.  Research has also discovered that particular types of music increase endurance more than other.  If you’re a gym rat,  some gyms play upbeat music in the background, which you may or may not enjoy.  So instead, take your own music.  Create your own exercise mix to listen to.  The music can be used to motivate and to cue you throughout the workout.

Running on the treadmill?

Use songs to set and change your pace.  You can create your playlist  so it has a slow song to warm up to, an up-tempo one for the actual workout and then another slow one for the cool down. Match the songs to the type of workout you want to participate in.