Thursday, March 5, 2015

Working to the music


I do find it amusing that some people think that they know best when it comes to what tunes are playing for you to work out best to. Each of us have varying tastes and there are different types of music that motivates us or gets us moving so what works for me may not work for you and vice versa.
Yes, I have quite often looked at these lists of apparent best workout songs of all time and wondered what sort of people were doing these lists, let alone the people commenting on these posts and adding some quite obscure songs to me anyway but if it works for them then good on them.
I have a library of workout songs with a wide range of songs, from Electric Light Orchestra doing Mr Blue Sky, Disturbed doing their version of Genesis' Land of Confusion, Ima Robot with the theme song for Suits "Greenback Boogie" to White Zombie Thunder Kiss 65.
During my studies we sat down and listened to various songs and tested our heart rate to each of them to see the effect they had on us. It is actually quite smart as we need our heart rate over 60% to get the fat burning going in the right direction and if music increases the heart rate then why not use the songs that increase it.
So don't push your music tastes on people saying that your music is better for workouts as we will all differ in our choices, just find what works for you, you may want to try some other peoples suggestions but in the end it is about what works for you.

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