The Fitness Adviser

Music is an amazing thing. It can make the mundane exciting, it affects your mood, it can make you dance, and occasionally give you a splitting headache. Just to show you how much of an affect music has on you, try watching a movie without the music one day and notice how an exciting montage becomes dull.

[Try watching this Rocky montage without sound and you'll see how big of an impact music has on movies.]

Now, a research study quoted by MSNBC has come out saying that music may be helpful to your workouts as well. Apparently, women who were listening to music during their workout were able to accomplish more repetitions before fatiguing than those who didn’t listen to music.

The Distraction Factor

Aside from getting your adrenaline pumping, music helps you workout harder because it distracts you from the pain of the workout. Interestingly, distraction plays a huge role in general in people’s pain tolerance. I remember distinctly reading about two studies on distraction increasing pain tolerance.