Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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02.03.2020 |
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Music with 190 bpm improves your workouts
Study
The leg press work out meant that the women had to make a set of 10 reps with increasingly heavier weights. On the basis of the last completed set, the researchers calculated the weight with which the women could just make 1 rep [1RM].
Sometimes the women trained without music [NM]. Other times the women trained while listening to pop music with a tempo of 90-110 beats per minute [LOW], 130-150 beats per minute [MED] or 170-190 beats per minute [HIGH].
Results
The same was the case when the students had to make leg presses. If they listened to the music at 170-190 beats per minute, their calculated 1RM was a significant 3 kilos higher than under the other conditions.
In the table below - click on it for a readable version - you can see which differences were statistically significant and which were not.
Although music encouraged test subjects to train more intensively, music also reduced the feeling of tiredness and physical stress. The higher the tempo of the music, the stronger the effect. This was especially the case with the endurance session.
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Conclusie
"This means that the exercise seemed like less effort, but it was more beneficial in terms of enhancing physical fitness."
"In the current study, we investigated the effect of music tempo in exercise, but in the future we would also like to study the effects of other music features such as genre, melody, or lyrics, on endurance and high intensity exercise", says Ardigo.
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