Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Why listening to music boosts fitness performance

A Stanford medicine blog.
http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2013/03/20/why-listening-to-music-boosts-fitness-performance/
This sentence applies to our recovery.
Music distracts people from pain and fatigue, elevates mood, increases endurance, reduces perceived effort and may even promote metabolic efficiency. When listening to music, people run farther, bike longer and swim faster than usual—often without realizing it.
So we can get a two-fer, music that has been proven to help recovery and the extra exercise might be enough to get some neurogenesis. 
 Ask your doctor and therapist to incorporate this into your stroke protocol. You do have a stroke recovery protocol, don't you?

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