Why You Need Boot Camp Music In Your Boot Camp

Having music on during a boot camp session can be a highly motivational tool for your participants. Humans and songbirds are the only creatures that can automatically feel the beat of the music. Everyone has a song that just makes them want to get up and move to the beat, the heart will synchronise to the beat. Music makes the body want to move, the body will want to synchronise its movements to the music.

Although not fully understood in science, music's reaction within the body ranges through physiology, to bio-mechanics to neurology. In the book Applied Sports Psychology, it talks about "alleviating choking - the sounds of distraction" This looked at basketball players whom when playing at high levels "chocked" under the pressure. They found that if the basketball players that were prone to chocking, listened to upbeat motivating music prior to their match, their performance was significantly improved, but why?

Music has the ability to distract the listener from oneself and from everything going on around them. It means the brains attention is directed to the music rather than being misdirected elsewhere.

Music has both a psychological effect and a physiological effect. So rather than your participants focusing on how hard the burpees are at that moment in time and how tired and fatigued they are, their mind is distracted by the music and at the same time the music is elevating the heart beat and breathing, making the body want to move to the rhythm and the beat, so a double whammy if you like.

Loud upbeat music has an energising effect on the body; it can promote feelings such as excitement and vitality. It can help the listener to push themselves an extra 10% harder by pushing away the feelings of fatigue and exhaustion.

Why not try it for yourself? Set yourself a timed workout, firstly do the workout without any music, then do it the next day with slow, calming music, then do it the following day with upbeat motivating music. Record your results and see how music can motivate you to work harder.

This is where automated music can make your job so much easier. Let's look at the benefits:

1 - - > Countdown to begin the workout. The music counts your participants into their interval. So no surprises when you shout go, there are no excuses of not realising the workout is about to begin and no time wasted. This frees you up from clicking on your stop watch and you can watch your participants from the word go.

2 - - > The participants know how long they have to go and so do you. This gives them extra motivation to complete the workout. Prompts from the music of 10 seconds remaining can help participants to push themselves that little bit harder.

3 - - > No checking your stop watch. Automated music means no more checking your stop watch for time and no whistle blowing to stop the workouts. This frees you up to completely concentrate on your client's workout. Gives you a chance to give uninterrupted motivational help and to ensure clients are using the correct techniques and working to the best of their ability.

4 - - > Rest times. Automated music also lets your participants know their rest time and the countdown to the next interval, giving them time to prepare and recover for the next exercise.

5 - - > The music is motivational. Music helps people both psychologically and physiologically to push themselves an extra 10% in their workouts, meaning a benefit to both you and the participants.


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