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Running to music, a podcast or audiobook is something many of us do, enjoying the audio accompaniment and blocking out the urban hum. But are there performance benefits to training to the beat? According to myriad studies, yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n Take research out of the Netherlands by Robert Jan Bood, who showed that triathletes and runners can enjoy better pacing strategies if they choose the right song at the right musical cadence to match their optimum striding cadence.<\/p>\n This sounds a deep-dig task to isolate songs that suit your specific cadence but it\u2019s broader than that with songs exceeding 120 beats per minute (bpm) recommended for high-intensity workouts and less than that for lower, high-volume efforts.<\/p>\n Run legend Haile Gebrselassie famously synced his run pace to the ground-breaking \u2018Scatman\u00a0<\/em>by Scatman John<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Music\u2019s also been linked with getting you pumped up, elevating your feelings of joy and sending you into an optimum mindset to run hard and strong. (Just don\u2019t get too carried away by your big beats or you\u2019ll hit the wall.)<\/p>\n Finally, there\u2019s research that shows music makes exercise feel easier. That\u2019s because music creates a mood of excitement and joy.<\/p>\n In turn, negative physical aspects of exertion, like fatigue and tension, are alleviated and you feel like you can keep going when normally you might not.<\/p>\n This distraction technique, of course, is a double-edged sword as that can raise safety issues.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why it\u2019s clearly hard to recommend listening to music while cycling, especially in the urban environment. Indoors, though, crank it up to 11 and pedal on.<\/p>\n When it comes to running safely, there are several easy wins. The first is obvious: avoid noise-cancelling headphones.<\/p>\n A better option is something like the Aeropex headphones from Aftershokz, whose bone-conduction technology delivers music through your cheeks to keep your ears on alert for surrounding sounds.<\/p>\n That said, they\u2019re not perfect as you have to raise the volume through heavy background noise, which can be distracting. They\u2019re also not great for listening to the spoken word.<\/p>\n Top image credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By James Witts Published: Thursday, 09 December 2021 at 12:00 am Running to music, a podcast or audiobook is something many of us do, enjoying the audio accompaniment and blocking out the urban hum. But are there performance benefits to training to the beat? According to myriad studies, yes. 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Make exercise feel easier<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Choose the right headphones<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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