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JESSIE: What's up, Jeff?
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JEFF: What's up, Jess?
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So today, we're –
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JESSIE: What man?
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JEFF: Remember the last time we did a video talking about workout
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songs, and training with music?
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Remember?
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Number four: Eye of the Tiger, by Survivor.
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One of my favorites.
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Jessie, you've got to hum this one, but you've got to hum this one like a cat for Eye of
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the Tiger.
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Yeah, come on.
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Jessie, this camera is rolling.
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Let's go.
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Eye of the Tiger.
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I don't want to know.
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I'm going behind the camera.
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Guys, what's up?!
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Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
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Jessie's now firmly back, behind the camera.
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The fact of the matter is, we want to talk about the Broscience of training to music.
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Really, the training to the kind of music that blares through the headphones that lets
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everybody else in the gym around you know what you're listening to.
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Is there any benefit to that?
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Well, we want to find out today.
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As a matter of fact, we're going to start with a bit of a test.
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So let's say you're in the gym – a lot of people don’t train with music.
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They just train in silence and it looks a little something like this.
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I actually, for many years, did this.
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Jessie, you keep quiet because you're the most important person that I'm worried about.
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Okay, now it's certainly focused, it's peaceful, a lot of people like to get away from their
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thoughts.
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The gym is a place to do that.
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However, there's a difference when you start to add music.
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We can add music like this.
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OR we can add different music.
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So obviously, the choice in music can have a great impact on your reaction to it when
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you train.
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Choosing the wrong music – as, maybe, Frank Sinatra was to some – could have a bigger
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disadvantage and bad effect on your output, and your training, than listening to no music
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at all.
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So music choices are very individualistic.
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Whatever it is that gets you excited, and focused, and excited about your training is
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the music you should be listening to.
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However, think about when you're in a gym.
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You're at the mercy of whatever the gym's playing.
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So if that music sounded like Frank Sinatra to you, you're probably going to be too focused
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on thinking about how shitty the music is, and not about what you're trying to do.
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What you want to do, though, is what I'm going to encourage you to do, which is listen to
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the Bros here.
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Start finding some music to add to your workouts.
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Why?
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Because the addition of music to your training can have a significant, significant increase
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on your output, and what you're able to do in your training.
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Studies have shown that you can increase your strength by up to15% by listening to music,
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versus not listening to music.
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Think about what that could mean to your overall gains.
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Workout, after workout.
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Rep, after rep.
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Over the course of an entire year.
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It could mean a lot to what you're able to do, and achieve.
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That being said, you want to make sure what you do choose is not always your go-to song
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because what you'll find is, when you train your rate of perceived exertion – how hard
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you feel you're working – will go down during a set, listening to your favorite go-to song.
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However, that means that you think it's easy because you're attacking that set like an
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animal.
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But your body is smarter than you are.
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When you put those weights down you'll likely feel that you're even more fatigued, and tired
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because you did have a higher output than you thought you were capable of.
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You just tricked yourself into that.
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That fatigue will hit you afterward, though if you do that set, after set, after set,
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after set.
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You could quickly wind up burning out from training at such a high intensity to your
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favorite song all the time.
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So you want to mix it up.
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But there's another benefit to the music that you use.
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Let's go back to this as an example.
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If I were training, and I was working especially for power I want to train to that tempo of
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the music because as I start to fatigue – we all know that the weights tend to slow down.
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But one of the most important elements to power output is to maintain that speed.
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Even if the dumbbells aren't moving that fast you want to try to get them to match the tempo
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of that song so as you're fatiguing you're still doing your best to increase your power
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output.
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But what you want to do is, you want to make sure – above anything else – if you're
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not training to music right now, give it a try.
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Find something that you like and you'll find you'll likely be much more motivated than
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using no music at all.
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Again, caution on using that same thing all the time.
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The Bros are right here, guys.
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As always, they're not always wrong.
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Sometimes they get it right.
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In this case they did.
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In the meantime, guys, if you're looking for a program that cuts through all the Broscience,
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that gives you the real science behind what actually works in the gym, and puts it into
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a day-by-day, step-by-step plan; head to ATHLEANX.com right now.
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Use our program selector in the link below and find the program that's best suited to
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your goals.
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In the meantime, I'm going to play us out here with my favorite workout song.
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Jessie, you got it cued up?
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JESSIE: I got it right here.
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JEFF: You got Rocky, right?
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JESSIE: Yep.
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JEFF: Rocky's soundtrack?
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Okay.
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Here we go.
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Mother fucker.
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Jessie!
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You Mother f-!
