The great Friedrich Nietzsche once said that “without music, life would be a mistake”. Plato also enthused saying “music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”. I could go on and on about the quotes of great minds appreciating the essence of music, and yet, it still won’t do justice to the importance of music in life.
My appreciation for music started from a very young age, and it has since stuck with me to always use music to galvanize myself anywhere I find myself.
There is various research that has helped to prove that music is a good source of inspiration and that it is a great way to boost mental wellbeing. Music also does a lot in terms of helping an individual’s physical health. All of these are pointers to the fact that listening to music in the gym can be of great benefit to humans.
On this note, I will be listing the 15 amazing benefits of listening to music in the gym below.
1. Music is happiness
Research has proven that music helps to lift the mood. This is as a result of the brain picking up on the good feeling of the music, and it starts to release the happiness hormone.
Get your best playlists when you have a goal to achieve in the gym, and you are unable to lift yourself to meet up with the task. This will immediately help you to raise your mood and propel you to have a good time at the gym.
The good part of this is that you will not only meet up with your daily gym goal, but you will now have a better mood than you started your day with.
2. Music puts you in the zone
Imagine being in the gym and having a lot on your mind, with the noise in the gym distracting you from your workout session. One of the best things you can do in this case is to plug in your headphones and start listening to your favourite music.
First off, it helps to clear your mind and recalibrate your focus while also zoning you away from the added distraction coming from the noise in the gym.
3. Maintaining pace
As a fitness lover being in the gym requires proper attention. Imagine you are trying to beat your previous record on a treadmill, and suddenly you hear a noise from the next person beside you. This will immediately reduce your pace and could even make you lose your feet. Instead have your earphones on and play your favourite music and all of that will not be a problem for you.
You will be able to maintain not just your pace but your focus also.
4. Nullify the anxiety
There is every reason to trust your music when you getting anxious about a new task in the gym or when you are trying to impress your instructor. Get a piece of very calm and soothing music in your ears, and it will immediately help to ease the anxiety. Specific soul or R and B music could do the trick here as well as keeping the anxiety in check.
5. Motivation
I have a gym instructor as a friend, and he never starts a session without music from his Bluetooth speakers. This is because he understands the motivation that comes with music and he uses it to his advantage and that of his clients.
Help yourself break that barrier by getting full motivation while at the gym by having your best playlist right in your ears. Music will readily inspire you to do more even when you think your energy has waned.
6. Breaking the time barrier
Imagine going for a tough gym session, and you know you have to do it for 60 minutes. Immediately you get overwhelmed by the feeling and the amount of time you have to spend in the tedious session. The best answer is music at the time. Just get your best tracks playing in your ears, and before you know it, you are flying high, and you have spent more than 60 minutes. That is the power of music in the gym.
7. Less Distraction
Having your earphones on with music playing into your ears will readily shut you out of the distractions happening around you. You will find it very easy to get your daily routine done without having to slow down or start all over again because of a distraction. This is simply great because reduced distraction is the same as efficiency on all fronts, especially in the gym.
8. Heart rate reduction
Having varieties of things to do in the gym could desperately increase your heart rate which could immediately get you tired. Also, stopping and restarting your next gym assignment would definitely require that your body falls back in line. To ease the pressure and normalize your heart rate, you can simply choose slow music to ease you into the next phase.
Slow music like RnB will immediately trigger your body to relax while also making sure your heart rate is reduced to normal.
9. Reduce Chit-chats
So many individuals are known to just be the followers of the crowd, and they just go to the gym to disturb others with lots of talks. Having your music being played through your headphones will immediately stop people like this from disturbing your session.
10. Social upgrade
Playing good music serves as motivation and you will readily find it easy to finish up your gym tasks on time. This will get people curious and would want to know what your trick is. The best you can do here is to introduce your playlist to them to create a social gym clique. This will benefit your gym results and also your social life.
11. Reduce fatigue
Listening to music in the gym is always a way to get you going, and with the best music possible you will surely get rid of fatigue. Anytime fatigue sets in, get you great and energetic music, and you will be able to get up again.
12. Keep moving
Music just keeps you going. Listening to good music will naturally have you moving your head, feet or fingers. If on getting to the gym with this spirit, you will definitely get to do things faster with efficiency.
13. The science of listening to music
According to research, music helps to limit the perception of effort with great significance while also increasing endurance level by 15%. This is according to the London Brunel University of Sport and Education.
14. You just get better
Music readily improves your mood while also increasing your motivation, and in turn, you get to do your gym routines faster. This will eagerly help you to become better with your daily gym tasks. Getting to listen to music with high tempo will really work well in this case.
15. Being Timely
Working out with your best music playing will buy you more time to do other things in the gym. This means you will finish your tasks on time while listening to galvanizing music.
