Listening To Music During A Run Can Boost Endurance

They say music may be the food of love... well, it might be the food of exercise too if we believe the research from Moray House School of Education and Sport at Edinburgh University.

- Dr Miriam Stoppard

One of its research studies proposes that listening to music while running might be the key to improving people's performance even when they feel mentally exhausted.

The study is the first to investigate the effect of listening to music playlists on endurance running performance when mentally tired out. It found the performance of runners who listened to a self-selected playlist after completing an exhausting thinking task was the same as when they weren't mentally fatigued.

Researchers used two tests to study how listening to music affected the running performance of 18 fitness enthusiasts.