May 3, 2024 • 11 mins
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?
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Listener resources: Science on music and exercise performance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167645/
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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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(00:09):
Hit It. Ladies and gentlemen.Welcome to One Good Question, our Friday
episode. If you want to getinvolved in ask questions said to Good Company
Discord dot com, there's a littletab on the left you can enter your
question have a chance to be featured. Today's question. How does music impact
workout performance and are there specific genresor playlists that enhance different types of exercise?
(00:33):
I think it's so individual, butobviously there's an insane relationship between music
and dope, mean right, That'swhy people will listen to it. And
then music, and I think allathletics. You know, historically basketball,
the rise of the NBA, andthe rise of hip hop music kind of
came close together in the nineties andearly two thousands. Now, obviously hip
(00:54):
hop or rap is a little bitmore mainstream and pop music. Historically,
powerlifters just listen to fucking Slayer andMega Death and Metallica all day, like
if even now, if you goto a powerlifting gym, but definitely,
you know twenty eighteen and before,if you went to any powerlifting gym or
meat you're gonna hear some kind offucking Metallica or ac DC or some shit.
(01:19):
If you're really deep into fitness oreven semi deep. And I've seen
all the old like Ronnie Coleman documentariesand videos. You know, it's a
hot summer day and like Dallas metroFlex and he's out there and DMX is
just blaring and he's you know,having a good time rapping. Like there's
clearly, like very very very tightcorrelations and connections between music and at least
(01:42):
our world powerlifting. Me personally,I think I do switch genres up depending
on what I'm doing. If I'mgoing like you know, max effort powerlifting
stuff, just anything loud. There'srock songs and rap songs that get me
hyped up, but like cardio stuff, I'll definitely switch it up to some
a little more beat, maybe evenlike E. D M or techno shit,
(02:04):
just because it kind of keeps youpumping and it's a little different vibe
than like one all out effort.Now I'm trying to fucking you know,
pedal hell r on a bike forten minutes or whatever the hell, you
know, to take it out ofthe realm of like performance, and just
like how it affects your mood.You think about the like flotation tanks and
(02:25):
you typically have the option of music, and it's not it's it's all very
like ethereal and doesn't ever like endin whaling or something. Yeah, not
even so much that, but justlike some you know, themes that evolve
and evolve and evolve and evolve,and there's like no end to it,
it seems like, or at leastnot for very long. And yeah,
(02:46):
absolutely does have an effect. Ithink I think that music has a much
stronger demonstrable effect than ammonia. Yeah, sure, the it's more internal.
The research does not really support smellingsalts. Yeah for a performance, Yeah,
waking you up maybe, but notnot performance. Yeah. Clearly,
(03:08):
like arousal, like you getting excitedand all fired up or whatever like that
can play a role in lifting weights, and it makes sense that music would
have a more effect, although I'mnot sure. Yeah, there's an exact
study on it. But music's sointernal, you know, it's how you're
listening to the lyrics or what thatsong means to you, or like literal
vibrations of a song. I recentlywatched at least half of like the Bob
(03:30):
Marley movie that just came out,and I've seen tons of Bob Marley documentaries,
et cetera, et cetera. Butlike that's what he's all about,
you know, Like reggae is alwaystalking about vibrations, and they're talking about
like literal vibrations of the music.And you know the style of reggae they
play where they're like skanking on theupbeat of on the guitars, like it
is made to make you feel acertain way. And you literally sit someone
(03:52):
down and play that music, andthen you go and play, you know,
some migos or some rap and thenyou go play like a Michael JACKSONVI
like they they do have like audimatic different emotions even if you're not connected
to it. Like I don't knowhow we would ever run that study,
but if you have like a blankslate of human and you play, you
know, these songs, the emotionwould come across even if they've never heard
the song, clearly when you havea relationship with the song, right And
(04:14):
I've listened to Michael Jackson my wholelife, and I remember being, you
know, eight years old and seeinghim dance on TV and asking my mom
what the hell he's doing. Youknow, he's fucking wilin out at the
Grammys. Or whatever, you know, Like I have a history with Michael
Jackson his music that I love,but I still think that, Yeah,
there's like an innate, primal lackof better term vibration with each style of
(04:36):
music that may call to certain peopleor whatever, but there's no way.
Yeah, it doesn't intertwine with yourexercise. So yeah. Twenty thirteen,
Scientific American published an article basically thatmusic distracts people from pain and fatigue,
(04:56):
elevates mood, increases endurance, reducesperceived effort, and may even make metabolic
even promote metabolic efficiency. An youthink about tempo absolutely drives like cardio.
Yeah, and so the thought thatit would be metabolic changes associated with that
makes sense aerobics, Right, we'reso big in the nineties. It's all
(05:19):
like high upbeat music and yeah,fucking stomping around. Yeah, I mean,
we obviously did not prep this questiongoing into it. So I'm looking
at an influence of music preference onexercise responses and performance a review, Give
me the give me the bottom line, folks. Yeah, I mean headphones
so much time here. Headphones inthe gym and music in the gym go
(05:41):
together like fucking bread and butter.You know, like there's just no way
it wouldn't be. You know,it's ninety nine percent of people listening to
music while they work out or exercise. Probably maybe not ninety seven because there's
probably some cycles that like to runjust to their head thoughts or something,
or like I did that yesterday.Yeah tough, Yeah, it's really I
have some people that I think Geotold me she runs without ship but or
(06:03):
like people that lift weights to podcastsfor some reason. That seems so weird
to me. But I'll ride mybike to a podcast. Yeah, you
know, yeah, I don't knowwhat, just cruising around true, But
yeah, some people are everyone's justa little different. Everyone's a little different
and what they can tap into naturallyor not. But yeah, like a
warm up tape on like basketball wassuch such like a big deal, like
(06:24):
it was such a part of whatwe did, like a very specific one
for the back locker room, andthen a very specific one when we run
out, et cetera. At homegames. You go to any kind of
Kings game or NBA game, they'reblaring certain music for certain vibes. Yeah,
it seems even baseball, like apitcher gets a song about or gets
a. Yeah, speaking of which, did you have you seen the Giants
(06:45):
closers entrance this this season? Theyjust in the last week had their first
run at it. It could bea little of all. When it comes
into a night game, they shutoff all the lights in the stadium.
Yeah, and then there are thesered LEDs. They just install this LED
system, so it's like red LED'syeah, bathing the whole place like the
(07:10):
Undertakers, and then he walks outand there are spotlights that follow him from
the bullpen. Yeah, it's justcrazy. Like the evolution of that,
we did an episode a long timeago, but like probably the Lakers,
right, the Lakers had to bethe first to do shit of that nature
in pro sports. WWE evolves whatthat looked like. Bulls had that Alan
(07:30):
Parsons project. Yeah, track thatthey always played. Yeah, insane,
I have a a phone because Dadworth at and T it's the basketball and
then the basketball splits apart and it'sthe Bulls Arena. This came out like
ninety eight and it plays that song. Instead of a ring tone, it's
a line. Yeah, it's crazy, it's a landline. But yeah,
that's iconic as shit. But eventhat, Yes, ten years after the
(07:50):
Lakers did it right, Yeah,yeah, I mean it makes sense.
You know, I just looked atMcGregor tickets because he's fighting in Vegas.
It's like those bleeds are three K. But that being said, and you
can justify that on your own.You know, there's no right if you
love UFC that it's worth it toyou. But all these sports have had
(08:11):
to elevate the experience of what thatis. Yeah, because if you're going
into a choir room, no announcer, no food, no lights, no
nothing, No Joe Rogan, noDana White, are you paying three k
just to see two men like puncheach other? Probably not, But now
you've elevated this whole thing. Arethe same with baseball, you know,
like you do that, and youdo that a couple more times, and
(08:31):
now this closer's you know, ona fucking wind streak. Yeah, now
you justify you know, spend acouple hundred bucks to go to a game.
It's like a beam. Yeah,the beams changed the whole thing.
They're trying to make the beam districta thing. So they're trying to make
those first two blocks of K Streetlike the beam district, Beam district.
Yeah, I don't know if that'sI don't think it's ndaight. I got
it some I secretly, but it'sI think it's yeah, yeah, Yeah,
(08:54):
they're going to try to make ithappen. At least I don't think
it's an official official thing, butI think they're gonna try to be able
to close down those roads for gamenights, ship like that, maybe even
make like open carries a thing.Alcohol wise. Yeah, let's just say,
I'm fine gun wise to fuck themboth, mix them together. They're
you know, there's discussion Cassie's aregoing to play here that there might be
(09:15):
a green beam. Oh that'd becool. Who knows what that would cost,
though, I don't know. Idon't know. Well, I know,
well this is off topic, butmy my buddy who runs the energy
company, is talking to the peoplewho built the beam. Yeah, it's
seven lasers, different colors. Iheard it because we were talking about like
if we wanted to like light itup for like a power lifting meme or
(09:35):
something. I think you can,but it's like twenty g's, Like we
could get them the loud yeah,but it probably costs them fucking you know,
five hundred to two g's to lightit up. Probably yeah, yeah,
for sure, Just you know,run it back to the to the
topic that in the conclusions, andthis is an article on the National Institute
(09:56):
of Health site. Music provides avery practical means for which to improve cute
exercise performance. That's the bottom lineright there. Okay, easily obtainable,
cost effective potent as an ergogenic intervention. So listen to music. Yeah,
but probably all the time. Wecan talk about it in a longer podcast.
But I think especially the new generationdoesn't talk about like you arousals of
(10:20):
the term they use. I knowthat someone's giggling out there, but uh
like controlling down when to do it? You know, you guys are lifting
RPE seven's on a fucking Tuesday andbashing your head through a wall to hit
like a PR seven. Like that'snot the point. The whole point is
the kind of save some of thatin the tank. Because you arouse yourself
every single day, you're gonna haveissues when you really gotta turn it up.
So that's my mini advice. Newepisode is Wednesday Friday, Good Company,
(10:43):
Discord dot Com and solom Mike.Are you gonna find me? I
am at theg mcdonn on those socialmedia. This show is fifty percent facts,
for percent is a word and fiftyis just numbers. Fifty percent facts.
This is a Spreaker Prime podcast inassociation with iHeartMedia on the issuer of
Celebrity Network. And if you've listenedthis far, you may know that we
have a meet coming and the registrationis probably already online and you may have
(11:03):
already missed it. Anyway, nexttime,
Hit It. Ladies and gentlemen.Welcome to One Good Question, our Friday
episode. If you want to getinvolved in ask questions said to Good Company
Discord dot com, there's a littletab on the left you can enter your
question have a chance to be featured. Today's question. How does music impact
workout performance and are there specific genresor playlists that enhance different types of exercise?
(00:33):
I think it's so individual, butobviously there's an insane relationship between music
and dope, mean right, That'swhy people will listen to it. And
then music, and I think allathletics. You know, historically basketball,
the rise of the NBA, andthe rise of hip hop music kind of
came close together in the nineties andearly two thousands. Now, obviously hip
(00:54):
hop or rap is a little bitmore mainstream and pop music. Historically,
powerlifters just listen to fucking Slayer andMega Death and Metallica all day, like
if even now, if you goto a powerlifting gym, but definitely,
you know twenty eighteen and before,if you went to any powerlifting gym or
meat you're gonna hear some kind offucking Metallica or ac DC or some shit.
(01:19):
If you're really deep into fitness oreven semi deep. And I've seen
all the old like Ronnie Coleman documentariesand videos. You know, it's a
hot summer day and like Dallas metroFlex and he's out there and DMX is
just blaring and he's you know,having a good time rapping. Like there's
clearly, like very very very tightcorrelations and connections between music and at least
(01:42):
our world powerlifting. Me personally,I think I do switch genres up depending
on what I'm doing. If I'mgoing like you know, max effort powerlifting
stuff, just anything loud. There'srock songs and rap songs that get me
hyped up, but like cardio stuff, I'll definitely switch it up to some
a little more beat, maybe evenlike E. D M or techno shit,
(02:04):
just because it kind of keeps youpumping and it's a little different vibe
than like one all out effort.Now I'm trying to fucking you know,
pedal hell r on a bike forten minutes or whatever the hell, you
know, to take it out ofthe realm of like performance, and just
like how it affects your mood.You think about the like flotation tanks and
(02:25):
you typically have the option of music, and it's not it's it's all very
like ethereal and doesn't ever like endin whaling or something. Yeah, not
even so much that, but justlike some you know, themes that evolve
and evolve and evolve and evolve,and there's like no end to it,
it seems like, or at leastnot for very long. And yeah,
(02:46):
absolutely does have an effect. Ithink I think that music has a much
stronger demonstrable effect than ammonia. Yeah, sure, the it's more internal.
The research does not really support smellingsalts. Yeah for a performance, Yeah,
waking you up maybe, but notnot performance. Yeah. Clearly,
(03:08):
like arousal, like you getting excitedand all fired up or whatever like that
can play a role in lifting weights, and it makes sense that music would
have a more effect, although I'mnot sure. Yeah, there's an exact
study on it. But music's sointernal, you know, it's how you're
listening to the lyrics or what thatsong means to you, or like literal
vibrations of a song. I recentlywatched at least half of like the Bob
(03:30):
Marley movie that just came out,and I've seen tons of Bob Marley documentaries,
et cetera, et cetera. Butlike that's what he's all about,
you know, Like reggae is alwaystalking about vibrations, and they're talking about
like literal vibrations of the music.And you know the style of reggae they
play where they're like skanking on theupbeat of on the guitars, like it
is made to make you feel acertain way. And you literally sit someone
(03:52):
down and play that music, andthen you go and play, you know,
some migos or some rap and thenyou go play like a Michael JACKSONVI
like they they do have like audimatic different emotions even if you're not connected
to it. Like I don't knowhow we would ever run that study,
but if you have like a blankslate of human and you play, you
know, these songs, the emotionwould come across even if they've never heard
the song, clearly when you havea relationship with the song, right And
(04:14):
I've listened to Michael Jackson my wholelife, and I remember being, you
know, eight years old and seeinghim dance on TV and asking my mom
what the hell he's doing. Youknow, he's fucking wilin out at the
Grammys. Or whatever, you know, Like I have a history with Michael
Jackson his music that I love,but I still think that, Yeah,
there's like an innate, primal lackof better term vibration with each style of
(04:36):
music that may call to certain peopleor whatever, but there's no way.
Yeah, it doesn't intertwine with yourexercise. So yeah. Twenty thirteen,
Scientific American published an article basically thatmusic distracts people from pain and fatigue,
(04:56):
elevates mood, increases endurance, reducesperceived effort, and may even make metabolic
even promote metabolic efficiency. An youthink about tempo absolutely drives like cardio.
Yeah, and so the thought thatit would be metabolic changes associated with that
makes sense aerobics, Right, we'reso big in the nineties. It's all
(05:19):
like high upbeat music and yeah,fucking stomping around. Yeah, I mean,
we obviously did not prep this questiongoing into it. So I'm looking
at an influence of music preference onexercise responses and performance a review, Give
me the give me the bottom line, folks. Yeah, I mean headphones
so much time here. Headphones inthe gym and music in the gym go
(05:41):
together like fucking bread and butter.You know, like there's just no way
it wouldn't be. You know,it's ninety nine percent of people listening to
music while they work out or exercise. Probably maybe not ninety seven because there's
probably some cycles that like to runjust to their head thoughts or something,
or like I did that yesterday.Yeah tough, Yeah, it's really I
have some people that I think Geotold me she runs without ship but or
(06:03):
like people that lift weights to podcastsfor some reason. That seems so weird
to me. But I'll ride mybike to a podcast. Yeah, you
know, yeah, I don't knowwhat, just cruising around true, But
yeah, some people are everyone's justa little different. Everyone's a little different
and what they can tap into naturallyor not. But yeah, like a
warm up tape on like basketball wassuch such like a big deal, like
(06:24):
it was such a part of whatwe did, like a very specific one
for the back locker room, andthen a very specific one when we run
out, et cetera. At homegames. You go to any kind of
Kings game or NBA game, they'reblaring certain music for certain vibes. Yeah,
it seems even baseball, like apitcher gets a song about or gets
a. Yeah, speaking of which, did you have you seen the Giants
(06:45):
closers entrance this this season? Theyjust in the last week had their first
run at it. It could bea little of all. When it comes
into a night game, they shutoff all the lights in the stadium.
Yeah, and then there are thesered LEDs. They just install this LED
system, so it's like red LED'syeah, bathing the whole place like the
(07:10):
Undertakers, and then he walks outand there are spotlights that follow him from
the bullpen. Yeah, it's justcrazy. Like the evolution of that,
we did an episode a long timeago, but like probably the Lakers,
right, the Lakers had to bethe first to do shit of that nature
in pro sports. WWE evolves whatthat looked like. Bulls had that Alan
(07:30):
Parsons project. Yeah, track thatthey always played. Yeah, insane,
I have a a phone because Dadworth at and T it's the basketball and
then the basketball splits apart and it'sthe Bulls Arena. This came out like
ninety eight and it plays that song. Instead of a ring tone, it's
a line. Yeah, it's crazy, it's a landline. But yeah,
that's iconic as shit. But eventhat, Yes, ten years after the
(07:50):
Lakers did it right, Yeah,yeah, I mean it makes sense.
You know, I just looked atMcGregor tickets because he's fighting in Vegas.
It's like those bleeds are three K. But that being said, and you
can justify that on your own.You know, there's no right if you
love UFC that it's worth it toyou. But all these sports have had
(08:11):
to elevate the experience of what thatis. Yeah, because if you're going
into a choir room, no announcer, no food, no lights, no
nothing, No Joe Rogan, noDana White, are you paying three k
just to see two men like puncheach other? Probably not, But now
you've elevated this whole thing. Arethe same with baseball, you know,
like you do that, and youdo that a couple more times, and
(08:31):
now this closer's you know, ona fucking wind streak. Yeah, now
you justify you know, spend acouple hundred bucks to go to a game.
It's like a beam. Yeah,the beams changed the whole thing.
They're trying to make the beam districta thing. So they're trying to make
those first two blocks of K Streetlike the beam district, Beam district.
Yeah, I don't know if that'sI don't think it's ndaight. I got
it some I secretly, but it'sI think it's yeah, yeah, Yeah,
(08:54):
they're going to try to make ithappen. At least I don't think
it's an official official thing, butI think they're gonna try to be able
to close down those roads for gamenights, ship like that, maybe even
make like open carries a thing.Alcohol wise. Yeah, let's just say,
I'm fine gun wise to fuck themboth, mix them together. They're
you know, there's discussion Cassie's aregoing to play here that there might be
(09:15):
a green beam. Oh that'd becool. Who knows what that would cost,
though, I don't know. Idon't know. Well, I know,
well this is off topic, butmy my buddy who runs the energy
company, is talking to the peoplewho built the beam. Yeah, it's
seven lasers, different colors. Iheard it because we were talking about like
if we wanted to like light itup for like a power lifting meme or
(09:35):
something. I think you can,but it's like twenty g's, Like we
could get them the loud yeah,but it probably costs them fucking you know,
five hundred to two g's to lightit up. Probably yeah, yeah,
for sure, Just you know,run it back to the to the
topic that in the conclusions, andthis is an article on the National Institute
(09:56):
of Health site. Music provides avery practical means for which to improve cute
exercise performance. That's the bottom lineright there. Okay, easily obtainable,
cost effective potent as an ergogenic intervention. So listen to music. Yeah,
but probably all the time. Wecan talk about it in a longer podcast.
But I think especially the new generationdoesn't talk about like you arousals of
(10:20):
the term they use. I knowthat someone's giggling out there, but uh
like controlling down when to do it? You know, you guys are lifting
RPE seven's on a fucking Tuesday andbashing your head through a wall to hit
like a PR seven. Like that'snot the point. The whole point is
the kind of save some of thatin the tank. Because you arouse yourself
every single day, you're gonna haveissues when you really gotta turn it up.
So that's my mini advice. Newepisode is Wednesday Friday, Good Company,
(10:43):
Discord dot Com and solom Mike.Are you gonna find me? I
am at theg mcdonn on those socialmedia. This show is fifty percent facts,
for percent is a word and fiftyis just numbers. Fifty percent facts.
This is a Spreaker Prime podcast inassociation with iHeartMedia on the issuer of
Celebrity Network. And if you've listenedthis far, you may know that we
have a meet coming and the registrationis probably already online and you may have
(11:03):
already missed it. Anyway, nexttime,
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