Music and Exercise

Dr. Len Kravitz's article "The Effect of Music on Exercise?" highlights the research he did linking music to various things related to exercise such as heart rate, physical strength, endurance, and motor skills. His article provided interesting thoughts on whether music could be a major factor in physical activity. One of the first points  of the article is that music can increase and decrease people's heart rate. This is one of the points from the article which suggests a correlation between the type of music people listen to and the amount of physical activity people get. If a person listens to very fast, uptempo music, then there heart heart could get increased resulted in them wanting to do something active. At the same time, someone could listen to more mellow, relaxing music which could possibly result in a decreased heart rate and a lack of desire to do something active. Another point Kravitz brought up in his article was how "music appeared to provide a motivational construct to exercise"and positively mental attitudes. Once again this could provide some evidence for a connection between the amount of  physical activity a person gets the genre of music to which they mainly listen. Although it might differ from person to person, people probably have a type of music which provides them with the motivation to do something active, and this music could be similar for many people. Kravitz research has provided interesting looks into how music and physical activities could be linked. This article could prove valuable in trying to discover a link between music and exercise.