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 ...

In this video, we're thrilled to present our unique motivational compilation featuring the best of 'Absolute Motivation' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

We’ve all been there before: You’ve set your workout goals for the day and you feel pretty confident that you can hit them. Maybe your expectations are too high but you’re still determined to power ...

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 ...