Not only do our training with favorite music further motivate and relieve fatigue, but in order to achieve the most effective results the rhythm of the music it is essential.

Many studies have attempted to prove the connection between our ears and legs. Over the past 20 years Costas Karageorghis, a psychologist of sport at Brunel University in Britain, spent time on this mission.

According to him, there are four factors that contribute to motivation which is songs in response to rhythm, musicality, cultural influences and associations .

The first two are called. internal factors related to the structure of the music, while the last two outdoor – reflect the way we interpret the music. The answer to the rhythm refers to the number of strokes per minute ( BPM) and how well it matches the number of heartbeats per minute of the trainees. The song’s structure, ie, its melody and harmony, contributing to its musicality.

External factors include our musical background and the type of music you love, and the associations that we have when we hear a certain song (ex-love, parents, friends, memories, etc.).

Perfect motivational songs

Costas Karageorghis has conducted a field research during a half marathon in London and found what runners are listening while running. He offered a scientific selection of motivational songs that runners love.

Warm-up:

• The Morning Orchestra: Lucky Star
• The Morning Orchestra: Don `t Let It Get You Down

Running:

• Max Cavour feat Syze Up: Safe World
• Sona Family: Dirty World (KL Klass Edit)
• SUBSOURCE: Breakout
• Mumzy: One More Dance
• KOF. Feat. Jenifer John: Strumpets
• KOF: Drop
• KOF: Oi Oi
• Panjabi Hit Squad Hai Hai
• New Street Adventure: Be Somebody (…)

Cooling:

• Frank Hamilton: You, Your Cat And Me
• Hobbit: RTTB

Do you have your rhythm?

If you synchronize the number of strokes per minute of your tracks with the rhythm of exercise, you can improve your effectiveness. Respondents in the recent studies that have ridden a bike in the rhythm of the music spent  seven percent less oxygen to accomplish the same results compared to training without the music.

Also, music can silence the small voice in your head that tells you it is time to end the practice because you no longer have the power and can not sustain that effort. Research shows that this “inflammatory” voice hushed in ten percent of the people who ran the bar at a moderate intensity to the rhythm of the music.

Sport Psychologist Karageorghis says that training in proper rhythm contributes to greater endurance, and motivational qualities of music greatly affect our interpretation of fatigue symptoms, until the moment when the subjects are voluntarily exhausted by the end.

His research showed that trainees who have been training from 30 to 70 percent of the capacity of the heart liked the music that contains between 90 and 120 strokes per minute. However, once they reach a threshold of 70 to 80 percent of maximum heart rate, they liked the music with 120 and 150 strokes per minute.

If you do not find your favorite song on the list, insert your favorite “quick” music in mp3 player the next time you exercise.