{"id":164217,"date":"2010-01-11T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/11\/tune-in-or-tune-out-how-music-affects-running-performance\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:05:00","slug":"tune-in-or-tune-out-how-music-affects-running-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/164217","title":{"rendered":"Tune In or Tune Out? How Music Affects Running Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"When asking if you should listen to music while running<\/a>, the answer is, “it depends.”<\/p>\n

And what it most depends on is how serious you are. If you’re the competitive type who is training for a race<\/a>, and perhaps chasing a personal best, then listening to music can be a bad idea. If you’re like the majority of the population and need some righteous tunes to distract you from the fact that it’s cold\/hot\/dark\/humid\/raining, or you are tired\/sweaty\/bored\/sore\/hungover, then jam those headphones in your ears and crank it loud.<\/p>\n

On second thought, don’t crank it too loud. You’ll go deaf.<\/p>\n

Blasting the tunes creates what is called a dissociative state; it distracts you from all the aforementioned unpleasantness to make the entire running experience more enjoyable. I’ll admit that I’m bummed if I’m out for a run and the battery in my iPod dies.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Fitness, Fit Family Guy When asking if you should listen to music while running, the answer is, “it depends.” And what it most depends on is how serious you are. If you’re the competitive type who is training for a race, and perhaps chasing a personal best, then listening to music can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}