The effect of music type on aerobic performance and heart rate of track athletes / Irsyad Abdul Rais

• Main Author: Abdul Rais, Irsyad
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: General works. Athletes
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/85046/1/85046.PDF; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/85046/

Music is currently used to accompany all the types of activities (e.g., Cooking, exercising, driving, washing, relaxing, sleeping, cleaning), whether the music is to disrupt attention, energize, motivate or to provide a rhythmic cue for the listener. In exercise and sport settings, the use of music to sports has become considerably widespread for all the athletes. The using of music would probably can enhance the performance and rising the ranges of physiological and psychological responses of the athletes. (Sanchez, X., et al. 2013). Music had become one of the important for entire life of many aspectation of human life, including a dancing (an organizer of early human social life) and hunting and warfare (precursors of sport). People believe that by using music to sport may deed to arise the exercise of intensity by arising arousals (heart rate, power output), masking fatigue (increase exercise duration), or allow the entertainment during a rhythmic activity, with all of this would contribute to enhance the performances of the athletes. (Hagen, J. et al. 2013). Music encourages people to sustain effort and used to separate from the exertive sensations due from their bodies (Karageorghis, C. I., et al. 2001) for a review. It affects perceived exertions and exertions tolerance through the several mechanisms.