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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Does music really affect performance? | One Good Question

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Does a PR song really help you get a PR? Does the tempo of music change the speed of your cardio workout? Maybe most importantly, does it affect your motivation to lift?

Sebastian Brambila (@sebastian_brambila) ran the board and chimed in on this one.

Listener resources: Science on music and exercise performance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167645/

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0:00.0

Please and gentlemen welcome to one good question our Friday episode if you want to get involved

0:14.9

and ask questions head to good company discord.com there's a little tab on the left you can enter

0:19.7

your question have a chance to be featured today's question.

0:25.4

How does music impact workout performance and are there specific genres or

0:29.4

playlist that enhance different types of exercise.

0:33.2

I think it's so individual, but obviously there's an insane relationship between music

0:38.9

and dopamine, right?

0:40.1

That's why people listen to it.

0:41.3

And then music, and I think all athletics you

0:44.1

know historically basketball the rise of the NBA the rise of hip-hop music kind of

0:49.0

came close together in the 90s and early 2000s.

0:53.0

Now obviously hip-hop or rap is a little bit more mainstream in pop music.

0:58.0

Historically, powerlifter's just listen to fucking Slayer and Mega Death and Metallica all day like if even now if you go to a powerlifting gym but definitely you know 2018 and before if you went to any powerlifting gym or

1:15.8

meat if you want to any powerlifting gym or meet you're going to hear some kind of metallica or ACDC or some shit if you're really deep into fitness or even

1:21.0

semi-deep and have seen all the old like Ronnie Coleman

1:24.3

documentaries and videos you know it's a hot summer day in like Dallas MetroFlex and

1:29.0

he's out there and DMX is just blaring and he's you know having a good time wrapping like there's clearly like

1:36.7

very very very tight correlations and connections between music and at least our world powerlifting.

1:44.1

Me personally, I think I do switch genres up depending on what I'm doing.

1:48.0

If I'm going like, you know, powerlifting stuff just anything loud there's

1:54.1

rock songs and rap songs that get me hyped up but like cardio stuff I'll

1:58.2

definitely switch it up to something a little more upbeat maybe even like EDM or

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