Scientists from the University of Texas have now confirmed once again that music facilitates intense exercise.
This research provides evidence that music can serve as an aid in motivating a person to exercise more.
It has been proven that students who listened to music during cardio training were more durable than those who exercised without music.
"This research provides evidence that music can serve as an aid that motivates a person to exercise more," said one of the authors of the study, Dr. Wasem Shami.
Dr. Shami and his colleagues examined 127 patients to determine how the heart responded to increasingly strenuous exercise, including the incline and speed of a treadmill every three minutes.
Half of the participants were tasked with listening to fast-paced Latin music while exercising on a treadmill, while the other half walked in silence.
After comparing the results, the scientists realized that the subjects who listened to the music exercised for 8 minutes and 26 seconds without stopping, that is, one minute and nine seconds longer than the subjects from the other group.
"After six minutes you feel like you're running up a mountain and even if you were able to keep going for 50 seconds longer, that means more than you think," says Dr. Shami in a statement.
It should be emphasized that this is not the first research that has produced such results. Some studies have shown that people are ready to exercise more intensively when the rhythm of the exercise is adjusted to the rhythm of the music, reports Nezavisne.
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