Influence of Music on Wingate Anaerobic Test Performance

Abstract

While several studies have investigated the effects of music on cardiovascular endurance performance and perceived exertion during exercise of moderate intensity, few studies have investigated such effects on supramaximal exercise bouts. The purpose of the present study was to assess whether music affects performance on the Wingate Anaerobic Test. Each of the 12 men and 3 women were required to report to the laboratory on two occasions, once for tests in the music condition and once for tests in the nonmusic condition. Conditions were randomly ordered. All music selections were set at the same tempo. On each test day subjects performed a series of three Wingate Anaerobic Tests with 30-sec. rests in between. On Test 3 subjects were asked to continue pedaling until fatigued. Mean Power Output, Maximum Power Output, Minimum Power Output, and Fatigue Index were compared between conditions for each test using a repeated-measures analysis of variance. Time to fatigue on Trial 3 compared by analysis of variance gave no significant differences between conditions for any measures.

The Effect of Fast, Light and Favorite Music on Physiological Function and Physical Performance of the Male Athlete Students

“…In the study participated 12 males and 3 females. The results showed that the time to exhaustion, fatigue index, the average power output, the maximum and minimum power output in comparison to listening to music, there was no significant differences (Pujol, Langenfeld, 1999). That is inconsistent with results, of course, favorite and light music didn't cause any significant changes in fatigue index, the average power output and maximum power and minimum power had significant change in light music condition.…”

“…This result is antithetic with previous findings showed listening to music in an activity that was performed with low intensity was more effective to activities that was performed with maximum intensity (Karageorghis, Drew, Terry, 1996). Pujol and Langenfeld (1999) studied the effect of music on Wingate anaerobic test. In the study participated 12 males and 3 females.…”

Enhancing Exercise Performance through Real-time Physiological Monitoring and Music: A User Study

“…We then analyzed these songs and discovered that they featured either many subdivisions per beat (faster) or very few subdivisions per beat (slower). This phenomenon was made especially clear by the presence of two clips from different parts of the same song 7 . The first clip was consistently perceived as being much faster than the actual tempo, whereas the second clip was considered to be much slower despite featuring the same core tempo.…”

“…The cell in bold high- 6 They were different participants from the runners in the running study. 7 Presidents of the United States of America -"Naked and Famous". A few interesting observations can be drawn from the Table: 1.…”

“…A few of the reasons proposed include the idea that music provides a pacing advantage, provides a form of distraction from the fatigue of exercising, affects the mood in a positive way, raises confidence and self-esteem and motivates users to exercise more. Finally, ten different studies agree that exercise endurance, performance perception and perceived exertion levels are positively influenced by music versus non-music conditions [7].…”