Gyms are often perceived buzzing with music. It is understood how vital is music to give your exercise a momentum, lifts up your mood and has direct impact on your mind. Mind in turn controls your body and its movement. It is a series of actions related to each other forming a positive and benefitting chain for your overall health. Even if you are not working out, the power of music has been known to move your inner and outer world. It is so much in sync with our lives that we don’t even realize its existence. Every sound of nature inspires because of the music it renders together. The healing properties of music have been worked upon through ages in different ways. Now, if you enthuse that power into your exercise routine, you can be assured to get the best results out of your results and stay motivated throughout your workout, even look forward to do more! Such can be the impact.
So if you haven’t yet brought your own headphones or don’t have your playlist then also you have high intensity pop-ranged house and chart hits over the speaker in the gym itself. We don’t play it just because it would be otherwise silent apart from boring groans of physical assertion and grinding workout machines. We play it to pep up, rev up and get going. Let’s explore different benefits of music playing at the gym. How it optimizes your potential and gives a purposive direction to your workout routine.
- Makes Your Workout Enjoyable: Yes, music makes your workout or exercise more enjoyable. Some of you love working out and some of you don’t quite like it. You are often doing it to lose weight or gain muscles and it is the purpose that drives you to the gym, but more often you start feeling worn out and monotonous in that routine. Music here, keeps you focused, makes your workout enjoyable because the music you love plays the trick with your brain!
- Motivates You: We all know those couple of songs which pump us up and get us a high; the type of music we listen to when we are getting ready to let our hair down or a night out. That kind of music motivates you to perform better while exercising and doesn’t let you slow down. Studies have even shown that cyclists who listen to fast paced music actually worked harder and hence, that applies to everyone carrying out physical exercises.
- Get Zoned In: There are times you get to your gym carrying the burden of your life out of gym, it can be work pressure, it can be things at home or your family, just anything. The music rescues you from getting zoned out and connects your mind to your workout, bringing the distracted focus back for the till the time you are there at the gym. Music drowns out the noises in and around you allowing you to get into the zone.
- Keeping Up With The Pace: Your workout demands a specific pace and time. It becomes hard to carry them out without losing pace. Using a dance or bass music can lift you up and you can be rescued from under or over exerting yourself while exercising.
- Elevates Your Mood: Whatever has been pulling you down or not letting you be in your element, a good music has that overwhelming effect of lifting up your mood. Your mood has a direct connection with whatever you are doing and you can’t get a good result out of a workout unless you are feeling good from inside. Dopamine, a happiness chemical is said to be released in your brain while you are working out with your favorite music on.
- Move Mode On: During your workout, whenever the music changes, your body move to a different beat altogether. It is very natural, the change of music brings life to your workout once again and makes you get going afresh once again! Such is the impact.
- Lower Workout Related Anxiety: Many of us feel anxious or nervous to go to the gym, especially, the beginners and get down with anxiety level so much that they skip their workout days altogether. Even fall sick thinking of it. If you listen to music before workouts, it helps you getting over that and prevents the anxiety altogether.
- Get Inspired: If it has been long and you have been losing patience over getting the desired results out of your workouts whether it is weightloss or muscles building, you are in dire need of music therapy. Yes, music not only gets you going but makes you hopeful and determined. Appropriate music which inspires you doesn’t let you give up!
- Makes Time Fly Away: Where an hour long workout may seem a long time, good music doesn’t even let you feel that you have spent 60 seconds working very hard in the gym. You lose track of time and it flies away with good music moving your body in the gym.
- Reduces Your Heart Rate: Music reduces you heart rate as you relax and calms you down. Try listening to something around 60 to 80 bpm or something acoustic to bring the heart rate down naturally and steadily. The therapeutic effect of music can be best utilized by people with certain health issues trying it hard at the gym to keep themselves fit. Experiment with music and enjoy your fitness journey with it.
- Makes Group Workout Fun: You might be knowing making good social connections by recommending good music in the gym or while enjoying one good music together but apart from that if you are working out with a partner, your workout becomes a fun game excursion with good music on. Group workouts and classes at a gym cannot even be imagined without good music playing in the workout in sync with the theme of the workout.
- Minimizes The Risk Of Fatigue: Leave aside meditation or yoga playlist, most music is produced to wake you up and keep your mind engaged in the gym. Many a times, you feel tired, run-down or exhausted. Music comes to your rescue to push through these barriers and help you carry out the exercises successfully.
All said and done, music is irreplaceable part of all gym goers and fitness enthusiasts. Put your favorite number on and hit it hard towards your fitness goals right away. Here are the Top 12 numbers ringing the gym charts:
- Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
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- Avery Watts – A Cut Above
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- Linkin Park – Numb
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- Eminem – Lose Yourself
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- Metallica – Fade to Black
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- I. – No Matter What
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- Remember The Name – Fort Minor
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- Linkin Park – Bleed It Out
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- It’s a long way to the top (if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll) – AC/DC
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- Monster – Skillet
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- Back for More – Five Finger Death Punch
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- Saving Abel – Bringing Down the Giant
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