A new study has found that you don't need a playlist of fast songs like the “Rocky” theme on repeat to be a faster runner. Fifteen male runners were asked to run three 5Ks over a span of several weeks ...

Good music becomes the propeller that thrusts my body into motion — I can't work out without it. And, there's something to be said about listening to motivational songs by women. (Because we rule, of ...

Years later, it became a No. 1 hit after being covered by Diana Ross.

The track has been referred to as 'possibly the greatest feel-good song of all time.' ...

The sound of a beating heart or labored breathing may make even basic exercise feel harder, but there may be something to cloaking that sound with a carefully constructed playlist. The results of a 24 ...

Listening to motivational music increases risk-taking behavior during sport activities and exercise -- particularly in men and when participants made their own playlist -- but does not improve ...

Matthew Stork is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus in Canada. Stork is an expert on the psychology ...

A new study found that although motivational music might make a person — particularly a man — feel like he’s inspired to reach his peak-performance physically, it actually only leads to more risky ...

Brain waves are electrical pulses that fire between masses of neurons, allowing those neurons to communicate with each other. There are five major types of brain waves, including delta, theta, alpha, ...

New research (Selinger et al., 2022) suggests that human runners evolved to run at an energy-efficient pace that makes it difficult for most joggers to burn a lot of calories unless they make a ...