2019 Volume 10 Issue 2 Special Issue
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The Effect of Listening to Music While Exercising and Its ‎Performance on Physiological Indicators‎


Fatemeh Haji Esmaili, Saeed Keshavarz
Abstract

The relationship of music with physiological and mental changes during the ‎exercise and work is a matter attracted the attention of experts in sport, medicine ‎and psychology sciences. Based on the results of the conducted research, music ‎could improve the motor performance and skill through mechanisms of ‎reducing fatigue feeling, increasing arousal level, making a coordination and ‎improving a comfortable and relaxed feeling, so that all of these factors are ‎directly associated with perceptual processes.‎Physical activities together with music may increase the cognitive stimulation ‎through increasing the motivation. Moreover, music may substitute the ‎information resulted from physical activity coming from sensory organs toward ‎central nervous system, increase the working efficiency and improve the levels ‎of emotions resulted from the activities.‎Muscle tension may be changed with various types of music, such a way that ‎fast music may increase muscle tension and slow music may lower muscle ‎activity during the exercise. Therefore, music could increase the motivation of ‎an individual during the training, and it would be possible for him/her to ‎practice for a longer time. From the physiological perspective, the effect of ‎music may be related to more mobility of cerebral cortex as well as increased ‎excitability of motor areas of the brain.‎In general, music could have positive physiological (heart rate, blood pressure, ‎body temperature) and mental (perceived pressure index) effects. In addition, it ‎seems that fast and slow music have different impacts on the performance.‎Hence, the present research aims to study the effect of music on metabolic ‎responses during routine sport activities as well as the effect of listening to fast ‎and slow music during sport activity and its efficiency‎‎‎.


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