ArticleBMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation2023
Listening to music during a repeated sprint test improves performance and psychophysiological responses in healthy and physically active male adults.
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- Music during anaerobic exercise in physically active adults: task-dependent evidence for repetition performance and affective valence, with uncertain maximal-performance effects.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Pooled it
- Music as an ergogenic aid in team sports: a systematic review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Pooled it
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- The effects of music with different rhythms on various sports parameters: an investigation on traditional Turkish archery athletes.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Effects of preferred music listening on physical and psychological parameters in sports: a systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Beta frequency binaural beats combined with preferred music enhance combat performance and recovery responses in amateur kickboxers: a randomized crossover trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of the music tempo during walking exercise on heart rate variation, lactic acid, and aerobic variables in male college students.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Combined Effects of Listening to Preferred Music and Video Feedback, during Warm-Up, on Physical Performance in Young Kickboxers.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Single and Combined Effects of Preferred Music and Endpoint Knowledge on Jump Performance in Basketball Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Acute effect of hydrogen-rich water on physical, perceptual and cardiac responses during aerobic and anaerobic exercises: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded cross-over trial.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- The effects of pre-task music on exercise performance and associated psycho-physiological responses: a systematic review with multilevel meta-analysis of controlled studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundIt is well-documented that listening to music has the potential to improve physical performance during intense physical exercise. Less information is available on the timing of music application. This study aimed to investigate the effects of listening to preferred music during the warm up of a subsequent test or during the test on performance of repeated sprint sets (RSS) in adult males.
methodsIn a randomized cross-over design, 19 healthy males (age, 22.1 ± 1.2 years; body mass, 72.7 ± 9.3 kg; height, 1.79 ± 0.06 m; BMI, 22.6 ± 2.2 kg m
resultsFor performance indices during set 1 of the RSS test, we found a significant decrease in total sum sequence, fast time index and fatigue index in the listening to preferred music condition compared to the no music condition (total sum sequence: p = 0.006, d = 0.93; fast time index: p = 0.003, d = 0.67; fatigue index: p < 0.001; d = 1.30) and the listening to preferred music during the warm-up condition (fast time index: p = 0.002; d = 1.15; fatigue index: p = 0.006; d = 0.74). However, there was no significant effect of listening to preferred music on physical performance during set 2 of the RSS test. Compared to the no music condition, blood lactate concentrations were higher in the listening to preferred music during the test condition (p = 0.025; d = 0.92). In addition, listening to preferred music appears not to have an effect on heart rate, the pacing strategy profile, perceived exertion, and affective responses before, during and after the RSS test.
conclusionFindings from this study revealed that RSS performances were better (FT and FI indices) in the PMDT compared with the PMWU condition. Moreover, in set 1 of the RSS test, better RSS indices were found in the PMDT compared to NM condition.
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