Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield, and I've had a lot of fun over at the Get Fit Guy Facebook page

and the Get Fit Guy Twitter page talking with listeners.

I'll put a link to both of those pages in the show notes.

You know, I recently asked all the listeners at those pages what their top workout songs were for getting motivated

to exercise harder or just getting motivated to get out the door to exercise in the first place.

And you came up with a list of fantastic tunes.

I've created them into a big list over at Amazon

so you can see what type of motivational music

the Get Fit Guy listeners are actually enjoying

and using to get motivated to exercise.

It ranges from Will Smith to ACDC,

and I'll put a link to that in the show notes so you can go check out that list. But now that you have those crucial tunes for getting you

moving, how can you use that music to exercise harder? In this episode, you'll get the best workout

songs and workout music, find out whether music makes you exercise harder, and learn

three ways to get a better body with workout music.

In 2010, British researchers had 12 healthy male students ride a bike while listening to music.

During each 25-minute bicycling session, the researchers adjusted the tempo of the music

to go 10% faster or 10% slower. They found that speeding up the music program increased how

far the participants rode and how hard and how fast they peddled. And slowing down the music

had just the opposite effect. Interestingly, the study participants actually reported liking the music more when it was played at a faster tempo.

A 2008 study that was also performed on cyclists found that it was far easier for the cyclists

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