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Over the past few years, as personal music players have become more and more common and affordable, athletes around the world have started wearing their headphones during workouts, saying that their favorite tunes give them more energy, and make the long sessions seem to be funner. Exactly why this happens is still somewhat of a mystery, one that Brunel University sports psychologist Costas Karageorghis has been trying to understand for the last two decades, LiveScience reports. His is not the first attempt to pinpoint the mechanisms and correlations that exist between what we hear and how we move, but investigations into this matter appear to be destined to fail. Karageorghis' studies have set the standard in the scientific community, however, providing other researchers with a starting point in conducting their own scientific studies. The expert is also the creator of the “Run to the Beat†half marathon, which takes place in London annually. The investigator is try!
ing to find the best possible mix of live music for all of the contestants, and has even compiled a list of scientifically selected songs that he believes are bound to make people move their feet in tune. Some 9,000 people participated in the competition last year, some of whom heard the music being played through loudspeakers, while the other...
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