The perfect music playlist for training

1 April 2013Updated on April 1, 2013

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Dr. Costas Karageorghis ensures listen to music while we run we can improve performance up to an 15%. This expert from the University of Brunel has studied for more than twenty years the effects of music on exercise and has told it in the book Inside sport psychology

After a series of studies involving runners and walkers, the Canadian team observed that our genetic tendency to vagrancy can be controlled with a "huge conscious effort" or with "a play list property" "We managed to accelerate or slow down the pace of the runners according to the beat of the music and keep them in that rhythm while the sound continued, even in cases where the frequency was higher or lower than usual, the runners they aligned with the music, "explained Dr. Max Doneland, who recommends those who want to run faster to load their iPod with music of energetic rhythm.

Dr. Costas Karageorghis explains it in his book: "The elite athletes they are runners associates that tend to concentrate on themselves while training. " The rest of the runners they are, in their majority, "dissociators”, And this means“ that they seek stimulation and distraction in what happens around them while they run ”. According to the theories of this expert, the benefits of music diminish as the speed and level of the athlete increases. “The faster you run, the less the impact of the music

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