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Rock Your Workout
This Week's Tips
Do you lose that loving feeling for your workout about halfway through? Take along your iPod to make going the distance easier.
Music really does pump you up. If you listen to tunes, you'll automatically walk, jog, or pedal farther than you would with silence as your partner in sweat. And your workout won't feel so difficult.
Melodies on Your Mind
Men in a study rode their exercise bikes farther, and reported less effort in doing so, if music was along for the ride. Why? Music may simply be an effective distraction from the not so pleasant, the same way munching on popcorn can help you get through a scary movie. Or music may boost your mood enough to take your mind off that stitch in your side and that jelly feeling in your legs. In fact, music can even act as a form of pain relief.
Get Your Groove On
Grab your headphones and do this quick and easy workout.
RealAge Benefit:
Exercising regularly, expending at least 3,500 calories of energy a week, can make your RealAge 3.4 years younger.
Try out this tip: Looking for tunes that will motivate you to move? Try celebrity trainer Kathy Smith's Powermix.
Music enhances exercise performance but not physiological recovery following exercise. Meeks, J. D., Herdegen, R. T., presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, June 21-23, 2002, New Orleans, LA.
