Pre-performance Motivational Music Enhances Force Output Parameters In Healthy Adults

Document Type

Conference Presentation

Department

Health, Exercise, and Sport Sciences Department

Conference Title

American College of Sports Medicine - Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise conference

Organization

American College of Sports Medicine

Location

San Francisco, CA

Date of Presentation

5-29-2020

Journal Publication

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

ISSN

0195-9131

DOI

10.1249/01.mss.0000682704.08216.e5

Volume

52

Issue

7S

First Page

691

Abstract

Music is integral to sport, and is commonly heard during intervals between play, such as a timeout in basketball or as a baseball batter approaches the plate. When competition resumes, music is typically ceased owing to potential distraction. The ergogenic effect of music during physical performance is well established; the effect of listening prior to activity is not. PURPOSE: To test the effect of pre-participation music on force output. METHODS: 23 recreationally active adults (7 men, 16 women) between the ages of 18-50 with no history of lower leg injury completed dominant leg flexion and extension using a Cybex HUMAC NORM dynamometer. After a standardized familiarization protocol, subjects completed 3 trials separated by 3 minutes. The experimental conditions were: 1) no preparational music, 2) researcher-selected music, and 3) participant-selected music. The order of trials was randomized and listening conditions were constant: headphones were worn during the silent trial, and volume and duration were identical during music trials. Peak torque (PT) and time to achieve peak torque (TPT) were recorded. Mixed ANOVA with repeated measures tested the difference between preparational music conditions. RESULTS: Subjects were 26.7 ± 8.4 years old. Across all trials, PT was 86.0 ± 36.6 ft-lb for extension and 50.5 ± 21.7 ft-lb for flexion; TPT was 1.2 ± 0.7 sec for extension and 0.9 ± 0.6 sec for flexion. Repeated measures ANOVA with a Greenhouse-Geisser correction found a PT difference in the trials for flexion (F=5.077; p=0.016) and extension (F=4.020; p=0.036). In both movements, the highest PT was achieved with participant-selected music and the lowest during the non-music trial. For flexion, post hoc tests using the Bonferroni correction revealed participant-selected music to have significantly higher PT than the non-music trial (p=0.043) and a weak trend for higher PT than the administrator-collected trial (p=0.099). These relationships were less significant in extension. Although the same patterns were reflected in TPT, the differences failed to reach significance for flexion (p=0.125) and extension (p=0.420). CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the ergogenic effect of pre-participation music on post-listening performance, and the importance of administrator selection.

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