Hey, it's Ben Greenfield, welcome to today's special episode.

In just a couple days, the usual episode with Brock and myself will be released.

But in the meantime, today, you're going to get a special interview with Abel James

from FatBurningMan.com, and Abel and I are going to talk about music and how it affects

your mood and your performance.

Just this morning, over at BenGreenfieldFitness.com, I published a post that goes along with

this audio episode and that really delves into a bunch of resources for you on the way

that workout music can affect your performance and how music in general and even sounds

can affect not just your performance, but also your mood, your sleep, your focus, and

all sorts of other physical variables.

The other thing that I wanted to mention to you is that towards the end of this podcast,

and actually as the intro to the beginning of this podcast, I'm playing some special music

by a friend of mine named Johnny K. And I'll be sure to link to more of Johnny's music in

the show notes to this episode.

The last thing that I want is from you, and what I want to hear from you is what your

favorite workout songs and your favorite type of workout music actually is.

I tell you what mine is over on today's post at BenGreenfieldFitness.com.

You might laugh, but I give you a free link to it anyways.

So check that out and let's jump right into today's podcast interview with Abel James.

Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield, kind of geeking out on sound right now and how sound

and how music can improve human performance.

And I've got a guy on the call today who happens to be a musician, but also somebody who

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