In an age where statistics and news reports are thrown at students from many mainstream media sites, students students struggle to find news reports that are valid. Often an individual will remember an inaccurately reported statistic and draw wrongful conclusions. The journalism article “Can listening to music help you run faster?”(Finn, Adharanand, 2012) states that running can boost running performance by 15%, in a click-bait style post on Facebook. Clicking on the post it takes you to the full news report. The article only lists one source from Dr Costas Karageorghis's research on the effects of music and exercise. Seeing this statistic one consider how much is an 15% increases in running performance? The term boost running performance
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Karageorghis hypothesizes that “music narrows the performer's attention and, as a consequence, diverts attention away from sensations of fatigue during exercise.” “Second, music can alter psychomotor arousal and, therefore, can be used either as a stimulant or a sedative prior to and during physical activity”(Karageorghis & Terry, 1997) Third, during continual sub-maximal activity, the organism has a predisposition to respond to the rhythmical element of music (Karageorghis & Terry, 1997) Though the consistent correlations between running with music and longer run-to-exhaustion times and better oxygen intake do not mean causation, it does show that medium to high tempo music does correlate with better stamina. Karageorghis maybe trying to say that running in-sync with music causes a much more even stride, and that music can arouse a runner or cause them to disassociate with fatigue. This disassociation allows for some to run longer. (Karageorghis, et al 2011) The result of this study relates to running in real life, in that music may help some during certain kinds of exercises that do not require much concentration. Most participants running show improvement with music playing, versus white noise or nothing. Music and longer time-to-exhaustion ratios correlate strongly, and though …show more content…
Finn is a runner who spent the previous 6 months running in Kenya. Though Finn states in the article that he did not notice any increases in run-times with music for himself, he noted he saw others running faster during certain bands. Finn also noticed himself running in sync a few times. (Finn, Adharanand, 2012) these observations lie within what Karageorghis says are normal for more elite runners. (Terry & Karageorghis,
Karageorghis hypothesizes that “music narrows the performer's attention and, as a consequence, diverts attention away from sensations of fatigue during exercise.” “Second, music can alter psychomotor arousal and, therefore, can be used either as a stimulant or a sedative prior to and during physical activity”(Karageorghis & Terry, 1997) Third, during continual sub-maximal activity, the organism has a predisposition to respond to the rhythmical element of music (Karageorghis & Terry, 1997) Though the consistent correlations between running with music and longer run-to-exhaustion times and better oxygen intake do not mean causation, it does show that medium to high tempo music does correlate with better stamina. Karageorghis maybe trying to say that running in-sync with music causes a much more even stride, and that music can arouse a runner or cause them to disassociate with fatigue. This disassociation allows for some to run longer. (Karageorghis, et al 2011) The result of this study relates to running in real life, in that music may help some during certain kinds of exercises that do not require much concentration. Most participants running show improvement with music playing, versus white noise or nothing. Music and longer time-to-exhaustion ratios correlate strongly, and though …show more content…
Finn is a runner who spent the previous 6 months running in Kenya. Though Finn states in the article that he did not notice any increases in run-times with music for himself, he noted he saw others running faster during certain bands. Finn also noticed himself running in sync a few times. (Finn, Adharanand, 2012) these observations lie within what Karageorghis says are normal for more elite runners. (Terry & Karageorghis,