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How Music Can Help Your Workouts
physiological feedback which can include your respiration rate.
Music can also help to lower a person’s perception on the effort that is exerted, help to encourage a positive attitude as well as helping to improve an individual’s experience.
With arousal regulation, music can alter emotional and physiological arousal which can be used prior to a competition or during training as either a stimulant or a sedative. Dr Karageorghis, who specialises in psychophysical and ergogenic effects of music in sports and exercise said, “Music can act as a sedative or stimulant. Music with a fast tempo can be used to pump you up prior to a competition, or slower music can be used to calm your nerves and help you focus.”
Music impacts on 5 key areas of preparation and competitive performances
Research has shown that music can help in both training and competitions through five key areas in preparation and competitive performances. These areas are dissociation, arousal regulation, synchronisation, acquisition of motor skills and attainment of flow.
In terms of dissociation, music helps to narrow down your attention span to the point that, depending on the intensity of the workout, a person can block out their fatigue. This will work for workouts that are low or moderate in intensity.
High intensity workouts on the other hand are unable to block out feelings such as fatigue due to a person being dominated by
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