How music gets you in the groove at the gym

LISTENING to music during exercise can delay feelings of tiredness, according to research in the international Journal of psychophysiology.

Researchers at Brunel University asked 19 adults to lie in an MRI scanner and perform 30 sets of hand exercises.

During some of the sets, a song was played. When participants heard it, the left inferior frontal gyrus — an area of the brain involved in language processing — was activated.

the more active this region, the less fatigue the participant experienced.

the researchers believe this is because they were ‘distracted’ from feeling the exertion by engaging a different area of the brain.