Why Music Pumps Up Your Workout

Nothing can brighten your day like hearing a favorite song. Music lifts your spirits and can give you an instant jolt of energy. That's useful because during a workout, music soothes unpleasant feelings brought on by intense exercise.

Music's influence on mood and emotions inspires people to move, and motivates them to keep going. Music can energize your workouts and help you reach your long-term health and fitness goals.

Good Vibrations: Music in exercise makes hard training seem like fun by shaping how the mind interprets fatigue, and acts as a motivator, enabling individuals to exercise with greater efficiency. Music increases energy and bolsters happiness while tension, depression and anger are relieved.

Born to be Alive: When performing physically demanding exercise, energetic music improves stylistic movement. Motor, cognitive and perceptive processes are influenced by music which produces an overall improvement in rhythm, coordination and muscle receptor control.

Go with the Flow: Music enhances endurance by 15%, improving "feeling states" and helping to derive much greater pleasure.  Recent research in sports settings has found that music promotes flow states, a feeling of energized focus and complete absorption in an activity.

Play that Funky Music: The synchronization of music with repetitive exercise is associated with increased levels of work output. Jazzercise music is contemporary, upbeat and motivating. It's designed to get the hear rate high, so you can enter your training zone and burn fat optimally.