The Best Exercise Music

As music has a way of stimulating us both physically and emotionally, this stimulation can provide the perfect motivation to help with your exercise workout. However good workout music is hard to find, this is because music has a certain tempo, a certain number of beats per minute (BPM) that can effect how fast or slow you exercise. Studies have shown, however, that listening to music can improve your results while exercising. But what is the best music to listen to?

For those who walk your BPM should be between 120 to 140 BPM however this goes up tp 145 to 165 BPM for runners. The best workout music needs to have a high BPM so that you match your movements to it, as it can be difficult to stay running if it doesn’t match up.

To find the best workout music you will need to count the BPM of the music. You can do this by using a stop watch and counting the number of times you hear the main beat, then double this number and you will have the BPM.

When you are creating your exercise playlist, you should start and finish with some slow tempo music for your warm up and cool down. While your cardio or weight training part should have some fast tempo music. However if you are interval training you should have a mix of slow and fast tempo music in order to match when you are exercising at a high and low intensity.

If you want help creating your playlist use can use iTunes Genius features, where you pick a song and it will then pick 24 other songs that have a similar BPM, creating a playlist for you.

The best exercise music will have a way of putting you into a rhythm helping you to get the motivation to burn those calories.