Study shows working out to music boosts brainpower? What are you playing?

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Poll question: Study shows working out to music boosts brainpower? What are you playing?

Exercise not only helps you lose weight while strengthening your muscles, but also gives you an energy boost and improves your mood. That's not all it does! It may make you smarter, too.

Participants reported feeling better emotionally and mentally after working out regardless of whether or not they listened to music. But the improvement in verbal fluency test performance after listening to music was more than double that of the non-music condition, reports Science Daily. "Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system, and these changes may have a direct effect on cognitive ability," Emery explained.

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/homerealestate/package.jsp?name=fte/musicexercise/musicexercise

So, when you work out, what gets your blood pumping?

[Wickerman]

1. exercise? what is this working out thing you refer to?

[wryter2000]

2. R&B/Soul

Oh, yeah

[LincolnMcGrath]

3. WOXY

NOW DRUGMONEY - ALWAYS / NEVER
Album: Mtn Cty Jnk
06:30:15 JEM - JUST A RIDE
Album: Finally Woken
06:26:05 THE CHURCH - LAY LOW
Album: Forget Yourself
06:19:10 THE BIGGER LOVERS - I RESIGN
Album: This Affair Never Happened... And Here Are Eleven Songs About It
06:15:20 SOCIAL DISTORTION - RING OF FIRE
Album: Social Distortion

[mvd]

4. I usually listen to dance/pop when working out

Like Madonna, some disco, and Kylie Minogue.

[strategery blunder]

5. Please add "instrumental"

I like to listen to movie soundtracks.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. Ramones!

Also the Clash.

[SarahB]

9. I saw the funniest thing yesterday

Sort of sweet funny. I saw these girls. They were probably somewhere between 13 and 16 a bit punked out wearing Ramones t-shirts. I wanted to kind of chuckle though because I had nearly 20 years on them and I was still a kid when The Ramones were at their peak. Maybe they're the hope of a new generation or something. :shrug:

[khashka]

10. The Clash is a great choice

but lately I've been listening to Courtney Love's "America's Sweetheart".

(Those cats are about the cutest, most adorable things I've seen all week, RationalRose! Give them a pat for me.)

Khash.

[VOX]

11. Cool cats, RR!

:toast:

[jpgray]

7. Gabriel-infested prog as a result of abysntheNsugar's thread below.

:D

[BlueJazz]

8. You didn't read the other part of the study....

...that stated:

"Although the scientists also observed the people who listened
to Rap Music had a hard time doing even the simplest tasks
after an exercise time of 1/2 hour"......subsequent tests proved that the subjects IQ's had been lowered significantly"