My Running Song

I’m not an athlete but as much as possible I run or jog to release tension and stress. At first I didn’t mind running without gadget with music. However I was curious why my companions loved to run while listening to their favorite music in their ipad. So I made a research about that behavior. I researched about it to fully understand what would be the good effect in my routine. According to Runner’s World magazine article - music can sometimes make running feel easier and there were findings in recent studies that music reduces our perception of how hard we run by about 10%. An external stimulus such as music can actually block some of the internal stimuli trying to reach the brain; such as fatigue-related messages from muscles and organs. Furthermore, music also elevates positive aspects of mood such as excitement and happiness, and reduces negative aspects such as tension, fatigue, and confusion, so it can be used pre-performance to get runners into an optimal mind-set.

For this reason I download some of my favorite music and put it in my mp3 player.

Here’s the list;

	Song Title	Singer
1	I Wont Give Up	Jason Mraz
2	Rolling In the Deep	Adele
3	What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)	Kelly Clarkson
4	the knack	My sharona -
5	Barely legal	The Strokes
6	Pump It	Black Eyed Pies
7	Paint it Black	Rolling Stones
8	How far we've come	Matchbox Twenty
9	Just the way you are	Bruno Mars
10	Our first time	Bruno Mars
11	Mary You	Bruno Mars
12	Grenade	Bruno Mars
13	Runaway Baby	Bruno Mars
14	Push	Matchbox Twenty
15	Set Fire to the Rain	Adele
16	What Makes You Beautiful	One Direction
17	Party Rock Anthem	LMFAO
18	Sexy And I Know It	LMFAO
19	I Gotta Feeling	Black Eyed Peas
20	I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)	Pitbull

 How about you, what's your music?