Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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The participants who worked out to Dua recorded on average a huge 37.93% increase in the amount of weight lifted versus when they lifted to no music.
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Read More »The gym is a different place for everyone; while some go to decompress after a stressful day at work, some enjoy the social aspect and others might have a specific goal they want to achieve. However, we all share one common goal: to feel good at the end of our workout! One of the best ways to consistently feel satisfied with your gym visits is to see yourself making progress, no matter what that looks like for you, and a simple way to do this is to benchmark yours by tracking your results. From guzzling pre-workout, to staying hydrated and even buying new kit - there’s a multitude of things we can do to acutely improve our performance during a gym session, and one thing we wanted to investigate was the impact that music had. Whether it’s the most recent top 40 track, a new banger from Kanye or even an Olivia Rodrigo ballad - music has an innate ability to distract us from fatigue, promote endurance, and even reduce perceived effort, allowing us to push ourselves further than we can in silence. Music has also been found to stimulate the motor cortex, the part of our brains that control our movements, so by working out to our favourite tunes, we can actually aid our bodies in executing movements - such as squatting or deadlifting. To discover just how much music can influence our workouts, we conducted a study that tasked gym goers with completing the three main lifts (bench press, deadlift, and squat) in silence, as well as to popular artists from a variety of genres, and tracking their performance so we can see how different musicians can help gym goers lift heavier weights, or more reps. Our results reveal that just adding music in general can improve your weightlifting performance by a significant 13%, but there are some musicians that help more than others. If you don’t feel like sifting through artists every workout, don’t worry – we’ve created a Spotify playlist that will help you lift more based off our findings. Our previous research showed that Don’t Start Now, the hit track by Dua Lipa, is the most popular home workout song, appearing in 12% of home workout playlists on Spotify - and she now also takes the crown as the artist that will have the biggest impact on your weightlifting workouts. The participants who worked out to Dua recorded on average a huge 37.93% increase in the amount of weight lifted versus when they lifted to no music. Originally hailing from London, Lipa has been named as the best new artist at the Grammy Awards and won the BRIT Award for Best Female Solo Artist along with countless others, and now throwing a few of her songs on your workout playlist can help you hit a new PB!
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Read More »Following just behind Dua Lipa was Harry Styles, the current king of pop who left boyband One Direction and has since gone on to have an incredibly successful solo career, consisting of two brilliant albums, movie appearances and even the first ever male appearance on Vogue’s front cover. Styles was revealed to help us lift, on average, 35.71% heavier. For example, if you’re squatting 60kg currently, this could equate to a massive 21 kg increase in weight lifting capacity. South Korean troupe BTS closed the top three, helping gym-goers to lift 22.47% heavier compared to their control. BTS changed the face of K-pop and have one of the most committed fan bases in the world, even gaining a few Guinness World Records for the likes of the most viewed online music video within 24 hours. The top five also included American singer/rapper Lizzo, and rapper Eminem - both artists bringing us the potential to lift 13.58% and 12.68% heavier, respectively.
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Read More »Completing the top three is Olivia Rodrigo, the international sensation that stole hearts all over the world in 2021 with her debut single, “Drivers License”. She broke the Spotify record for most streams in one week and our results show that listening to one of her pop ballads will help you to complete 6.07% more reps per workout; if you don’t believe us, just listen to good 4 u next time you hit the gym. Also featuring in the top five artists that’ll get you hitting those reps with a vengeance is the Weeknd and Drake, who comes in fifth - beating once-rival rapper Kanye by 2% on average.
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