According to science!
There IS an easier way to work out, after all: If you want to feel like you're working 12% less hard, the right music can help do the trick.
According to Dr. Costas Karageorghis, author of Inside Sport Psychology and a leading expert on the psychology of exercise music at the School of Sport and Education at Brunel University in London, well-selected music can actually reduce your perceived exertion by 12%.
Basically, the right jams can make you forget that exercise hurts. Karageorghis' research found that even arbitrarily selected music can reduce our perception of effort by 8%.
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First, figure out what kind of attention style you have to find out the best way to use music in your workout.
Do you...
...have a tendency to focus on whatever you're doing, paying attention to your breathing, heart rate, and regulating your movements? You have an associative attention style.
...seek out distractions while you're working out to make it less painful — like looking out the window or at the landscape, making conversation with a friend, or tuning out to TV/music? That's dissociative behavior.
...adjust your attention based on the situation? You're a switcher, which means you can focus on your body to get the most out of yourself (associative), but also tune out when jogging at a low intensity (dissociative).
Music is most likely to benefit people who find it hard to focus while working out, and who find it hard to stick with a program.
For "dissociators," "switchers," and those who find exercising painful, music can make a critical difference, Karageorghis said.
Choose music you would regularly listen to.
It should be music that you're familiar with, Karageorghis said. Studies have shown that the more familiar we are with a song, the more we tend to favor it.
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