Autumn Playlist - Rollers / Turbo Interval Session Boomin' tracks

Did you know there is very little scientific evidence that has linked exercise performance with listening to music.

The BBC reported that Dr Costas Karageorghis and Professor Peter Terry, sports psychologists from Brunel University West London and the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba respectively found music increased energy efficiency by 1-3%, meaning athletes could run further on the same amount of oxygen.

However, I found another study by the author of that research and he found Synchronous music, music that has a clear and steady beat, was what was shown to elevate a person’s performance by twenty percent whereas asynchronous music, background music, was shown to calm the nerves of athletes by as much as ten percent.
An increase in performance of 20% just by listening to the Spice Girls?

Sounds too good to be true, and the Journal of Exercise Physiology agrees, it reviewed all the latest research and found music and relationship to resistance training and anaerobic exercise have not been analyzed as often. Submaximal versus maximal performance as well as exercise at moderate intensity versus high intensity have all produced mixed finding.
All rather interesting if you like that sort of thing but nothing conclusive.

Either way music makes the world go round and you must be made of stone if you can't go for a run or do an interval session with a boomin' soundtrack.

I'm doing three different roller interval sessions at the moment.
Focusing on two per week, alternating between them to add variety.
And so, contrary to science I've gone ahead and made a September mix tape - make sure you get the remixes.