Well for starters, this is pretty subjective. Everyone has their preferences ranging from pop to good ol' hardcore polka. What I prefer wont resonate with some and may be right in line with others, so where this rant is going is to take you is to how different types of music may impact your performance and this may open your mind to try out some different genres while training.
Taking the time to read through a few articles that looked at music and its impact on exercise performance, which consisted of both aerobic and anaerobic focused markers. Music in comparison to no music has shown to increase performance with endurance training in numerous studies. Even the pace of the music was looked at and the difference was slight, but fast paced music did show an improvement in performance in comparison to a slower paced form of music. Now the majority of research done on music and exercise performance is focused around the aerobic (endurance/ cardiovascular) styles of exercise and not as much around anaerobic (power)/ resistance styles of exercise. The few that have been done around the anaerobic/ resistance styles, show that there is a positive correlation with preferred vs. non-preferred music with resistance training and no significant difference with pace or even absence of music with anaerobic training performance. Multiple studies focused around music vs. no music or even variations of tempo in regard to anaerobic training show mixed results, but most seem to favor music to no music and there may be a sweet spot of music tempo, somewhere around 80-90 beats per minute.
Anyways, what to take from this is that there is a possible time and place for what kind of music you choose to listen to. Definitely stick to music you truly enjoy over just something fast and hardcore though. I find some of my better training sessions were complimented with classical renditions of hip hop songs, which if you haven't gone down that rabbit hole I highly suggest you do. Depending on how you also prefer to go into your more intense movements, something that gets me to be more focused is something that won't be necessarily fast, but will have more of a fluidness to how it waves with tempo and pitch. Something that just flows well helps me really focus inward. I also use these songs sparingly. You gotta have your tiers of music when it comes to your low, moderate, and high intensity stuff. Something that doesn't require too much self awareness with technique, I would suggest listening to something you can almost space out too a bit, just don't forget that you still have to count your reps and this would span from your low to moderate intensity stuff. Now back to the high intensity music options, they should be songs that just pull you in and by that, I mean they should elicit a great deal of awareness about your body and basically bring you in tune with everything. When I'm deadlifting heavy as fuck, I'm listening to a rendition of “Feeling Good” by Michael Buble, not something where I have a grown man screaming in my ear, but different strokes for different folks.
I'm just going to finish this off with my top 5 training songs based on intensity of training.
Intensity and Song:
Low - “Poplar St” by Glass Animals
Mod - “Professor X” by Dave
Mod - “Hurt People” by Two Feet
High - “Feeling Good” by Micheal Buble
High - “Home - Remix” by Mike Dimes and JID
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