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question have a chance to be featured. Today's question. How does music impact

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workout performance and are there specific genres
or playlists that enhance different types of exercise?

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I think it's so individual, but
obviously there's an insane relationship between music

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and dope, mean right, That's
why people will listen to it. And

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then music, and I think all
athletics. You know, historically basketball,

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the rise of the NBA, and
the rise of hip hop music kind of

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came close together in the nineties and
early two thousands. Now, obviously hip

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hop or rap is a little bit
more mainstream and pop music. Historically,

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powerlifters just listen to fucking Slayer and
Mega Death and Metallica all day, like

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if even now, if you go
to a powerlifting gym, but definitely,

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you know twenty eighteen and before,
if you went to any powerlifting gym or

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meat you're gonna hear some kind of
fucking Metallica or ac DC or some shit.

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If you're really deep into fitness or
even semi deep. And I've seen

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all the old like Ronnie Coleman documentaries
and videos. You know, it's a

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hot summer day and like Dallas metro
Flex and he's out there and DMX is

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just blaring and he's you know,
having a good time rapping. Like there's

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clearly, like very very very tight
correlations and connections between music and at least

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our world powerlifting. Me personally,
I think I do switch genres up depending

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on what I'm doing. If I'm
going like you know, max effort powerlifting

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stuff, just anything loud. There's
rock songs and rap songs that get me

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hyped up, but like cardio stuff, I'll definitely switch it up to some

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a little more beat, maybe even
like E. D M or techno shit,

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just because it kind of keeps you
pumping and it's a little different vibe

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than like one all out effort.
Now I'm trying to fucking you know,

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pedal hell r on a bike for
ten minutes or whatever the hell, you

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know, to take it out of
the realm of like performance, and just

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like how it affects your mood.
You think about the like flotation tanks and

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you typically have the option of music, and it's not it's it's all very

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like ethereal and doesn't ever like end
in whaling or something. Yeah, not

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even so much that, but just
like some you know, themes that evolve

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and evolve and evolve and evolve,
and there's like no end to it,

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it seems like, or at least
not for very long. And yeah,

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absolutely does have an effect. I
think I think that music has a much

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stronger demonstrable effect than ammonia. Yeah, sure, the it's more internal.

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The research does not really support smelling
salts. Yeah for a performance, Yeah,

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waking you up maybe, but not
not performance. Yeah. Clearly,

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like arousal, like you getting excited
and all fired up or whatever like that

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can play a role in lifting weights, and it makes sense that music would

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have a more effect, although I'm
not sure. Yeah, there's an exact

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study on it. But music's so
internal, you know, it's how you're

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listening to the lyrics or what that
song means to you, or like literal

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vibrations of a song. I recently
watched at least half of like the Bob

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Marley movie that just came out,
and I've seen tons of Bob Marley documentaries,

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et cetera, et cetera. But
like that's what he's all about,

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you know, Like reggae is always
talking about vibrations, and they're talking about

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like literal vibrations of the music.
And you know the style of reggae they

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play where they're like skanking on the
upbeat of on the guitars, like it

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is made to make you feel a
certain way. And you literally sit someone

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down and play that music, and
then you go and play, you know,

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some migos or some rap and then
you go play like a Michael JACKSONVI

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like they they do have like audi
matic different emotions even if you're not connected

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to it. Like I don't know
how we would ever run that study,

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but if you have like a blank
slate of human and you play, you

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know, these songs, the emotion
would come across even if they've never heard

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the song, clearly when you have
a relationship with the song, right And

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I've listened to Michael Jackson my whole
life, and I remember being, you

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know, eight years old and seeing
him dance on TV and asking my mom

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what the hell he's doing. You
know, he's fucking wilin out at the

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Grammys. Or whatever, you know, Like I have a history with Michael

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Jackson his music that I love,
but I still think that, Yeah,

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there's like an innate, primal lack
of better term vibration with each style of

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music that may call to certain people
or whatever, but there's no way.

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Yeah, it doesn't intertwine with your
exercise. So yeah. Twenty thirteen,

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Scientific American published an article basically that
music distracts people from pain and fatigue,

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elevates mood, increases endurance, reduces
perceived effort, and may even make metabolic

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even promote metabolic efficiency. An you
think about tempo absolutely drives like cardio.

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Yeah, and so the thought that
it would be metabolic changes associated with that

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makes sense aerobics, Right, we're
so big in the nineties. It's all

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like high upbeat music and yeah,
fucking stomping around. Yeah, I mean,

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we obviously did not prep this question
going into it. So I'm looking

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at an influence of music preference on
exercise responses and performance a review, Give

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me the give me the bottom line, folks. Yeah, I mean headphones

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so much time here. Headphones in
the gym and music in the gym go

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together like fucking bread and butter.
You know, like there's just no way

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it wouldn't be. You know,
it's ninety nine percent of people listening to

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music while they work out or exercise. Probably maybe not ninety seven because there's

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probably some cycles that like to run
just to their head thoughts or something,

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or like I did that yesterday.
Yeah tough, Yeah, it's really I

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have some people that I think Geo
told me she runs without ship but or

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like people that lift weights to podcasts
for some reason. That seems so weird

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to me. But I'll ride my
bike to a podcast. Yeah, you

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know, yeah, I don't know
what, just cruising around true, But

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yeah, some people are everyone's just
a little different. Everyone's a little different

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and what they can tap into naturally
or not. But yeah, like a

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warm up tape on like basketball was
such such like a big deal, like

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it was such a part of what
we did, like a very specific one

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for the back locker room, and
then a very specific one when we run

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out, et cetera. At home
games. You go to any kind of

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Kings game or NBA game, they're
blaring certain music for certain vibes. Yeah,

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it seems even baseball, like a
pitcher gets a song about or gets

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a. Yeah, speaking of which, did you have you seen the Giants

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closers entrance this this season? They
just in the last week had their first

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run at it. It could be
a little of all. When it comes

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into a night game, they shut
off all the lights in the stadium.

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Yeah, and then there are these
red LEDs. They just install this LED

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system, so it's like red LED's
yeah, bathing the whole place like the

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Undertakers, and then he walks out
and there are spotlights that follow him from

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the bullpen. Yeah, it's just
crazy. Like the evolution of that,

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we did an episode a long time
ago, but like probably the Lakers,

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right, the Lakers had to be
the first to do shit of that nature

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in pro sports. WWE evolves what
that looked like. Bulls had that Alan

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Parsons project. Yeah, track that
they always played. Yeah, insane,

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I have a a phone because Dad
worth at and T it's the basketball and

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then the basketball splits apart and it's
the Bulls Arena. This came out like

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ninety eight and it plays that song. Instead of a ring tone, it's

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a line. Yeah, it's crazy, it's a landline. But yeah,

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that's iconic as shit. But even
that, Yes, ten years after the

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Lakers did it right, Yeah,
yeah, I mean it makes sense.

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You know, I just looked at
McGregor tickets because he's fighting in Vegas.

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It's like those bleeds are three K. But that being said, and you

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can justify that on your own.
You know, there's no right if you

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love UFC that it's worth it to
you. But all these sports have had

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to elevate the experience of what that
is. Yeah, because if you're going

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into a choir room, no announcer, no food, no lights, no

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nothing, No Joe Rogan, no
Dana White, are you paying three k

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just to see two men like punch
each other? Probably not, But now

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you've elevated this whole thing. Are
the same with baseball, you know,

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like you do that, and you
do that a couple more times, and

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now this closer's you know, on
a fucking wind streak. Yeah, now

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you justify you know, spend a
couple hundred bucks to go to a game.

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It's like a beam. Yeah,
the beams changed the whole thing.

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They're trying to make the beam district
a thing. So they're trying to make

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those first two blocks of K Street
like the beam district, Beam district.

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Yeah, I don't know if that's
I don't think it's ndaight. I got

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it some I secretly, but it's
I think it's yeah, yeah, Yeah,

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they're going to try to make it
happen. At least I don't think

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it's an official official thing, but
I think they're gonna try to be able

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to close down those roads for game
nights, ship like that, maybe even

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make like open carries a thing.
Alcohol wise. Yeah, let's just say,

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I'm fine gun wise to fuck them
both, mix them together. They're

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you know, there's discussion Cassie's are
going to play here that there might be

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a green beam. Oh that'd be
cool. Who knows what that would cost,

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though, I don't know. I
don't know. Well, I know,

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well this is off topic, but
my my buddy who runs the energy

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company, is talking to the people
who built the beam. Yeah, it's

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seven lasers, different colors. I
heard it because we were talking about like

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if we wanted to like light it
up for like a power lifting meme or

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something. I think you can,
but it's like twenty g's, Like we

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could get them the loud yeah,
but it probably costs them fucking you know,

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five hundred to two g's to light
it up. Probably yeah, yeah,

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for sure, Just you know,
run it back to the to the

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topic that in the conclusions, and
this is an article on the National Institute

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of Health site. Music provides a
very practical means for which to improve cute

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exercise performance. That's the bottom line
right there. Okay, easily obtainable,

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cost effective potent as an ergogenic intervention. So listen to music. Yeah,

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but probably all the time. We
can talk about it in a longer podcast.

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But I think especially the new generation
doesn't talk about like you arousals of

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the term they use. I know
that someone's giggling out there, but uh

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like controlling down when to do it? You know, you guys are lifting

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RPE seven's on a fucking Tuesday and
bashing your head through a wall to hit

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like a PR seven. Like that's
not the point. The whole point is

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the kind of save some of that
in the tank. Because you arouse yourself

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every single day, you're gonna have
issues when you really gotta turn it up.

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