>Conclusions and recommendations: Research evidence demonstrates that music has consistent and measurable effects on the behaviour and psychological states of male and female exercise participants. Music can also positively in uence performance by improving endurance and/or exercise intensity.When music is selected according to its motivational qualities, the positive impact on performance (e.g., increased endurance) and psychological states (e.g., enhanced affect) are even greater, which has important implications for exercise adherence. Salient recommendations are that music should be: • Congruent with the socio-cultural background and age group of listeners (i.e., re ect familiarity and preferences). • Functional for the activity (e.g., rhythm should usually approximate motor patterns involved). • Selected with the desired effects in mind (e.g., loud, fast, percussive music with accentuated bass frequencies as an arousal-increasing intervention). • Selected in consultation with participants using some form of objective rating method (e.g., Brunel Music Rating Inventory-2; Karageorghis et al., 2006). • Characterised by prominent rhythmic qualities and percussion in addition to pleasing melodic and harmonic structures for repetitive aerobic and anaerobic exercise tasks. Harmony refers to sounding multiple notes together, giving music its emotional “colour” (e.g., happy, sad, ruminative). • Within the tempo band of 125-140 beats per minute for most healthy exercisers engaged in repetitive, aerobic-type activity (slower music is appropriate for warm-up and cool-down). • Imbued with motivating associations, conditioned either through the media or the personal experiences of the listener. • Accompanied by lyrics with af rmations of movement (e.g.,“run to the beat”) or generic motivating statements (e.g.,“the only way is up”).
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