Reflection On Brunel Music Rating Exercise

In order to generate a ten-song playlist that typically assists me in achieving physical health while doing exercises, I started to select music from those I usually listened to while I was walking or doing exercises. I was struggling at first when I simply sat down and selected songs in my iPod, because there seemed to be a lot of songs that could be chosen as long as the beats were not too slow and the styles were lively, which made me confused about how to limit the playlist to only ten songs and how to suitably match various kinds of exercises with different songs, in order to meet the physical health purpose. Later, I started to utilise Brunel Music Rating Inventory (BMRI), which was a psychometric measure developed and standardised by Karageorghis, Terry and Lane (1999) to evaluate the motivational qualities of music in sport and exercise settings. I chose running on the treadmill as the exercise I would assess the songs with by applying the most recommended version, the …show more content…
However, my running speed altered because the underlying beats were different for me between different parts of the song. In the opening part, I counted it as simple meters and in the climax, I counted it as duple meters. As the parts were repeating in the song, the two kinds of beats kept alternating which regulated my running patterns throughout the song. As Terry and Karageorghis (2006) indicated, we respond to the rhythmical qualities of music by synchronising our movements to tempo, which can produce an ergogenic effect. When I was running, as the beats became slow, I slowed down my running footstep. Contrasty, as the beats became duple, I duplicated my running speed in order to synchronise the beats. In this way, I was encouraged to have a quick break when the beats were at simple meters, which was beneficial to energy-saving, in order to increase endurance of aerobic exercise and promote metabolic