The next time you are working out, you may want to “lose yourself” in some Eminem music. A new study finds three of his songs can boost your athletic performance by 10 percent.
Medical daily dot com reports scientists have created a music playlist which allows people to truly get the most out of their workouts.
The test subject:
British swimmer Ben Hooper, who on December 31, 2015 will swim 2,000 miles from Dakar in Senegal, West Africa, to Natal in Brazil, was the only subject of the study.
The study:
Researchers from Hartpury College in Gloucestershire spent three months monitoring how Hooper’s output was affected by different types of music.
The researchers began the study by playing songs from nearly 100 different artists before slowly narrowing it down to the 10 songs that were found to boost his performance. The final ten songs are titled “A Soundtrack of Success.”
The Eminem songs:
Three Eminem songs are on that soundtrack: “Lose Yourself,” “Not Afraid,” and “Without Me.”
The soundtrack will be packed in a waterproof MP3 player that Hooper will listen to over the course of his swim.
“The music still needs to be at a brisk pace, but we found that tracks with an emotional resonance can boost performance and endurance as much as 10 percent,” researchers said. “This could be because these emotionally tied songs help Ben muscle down and push through the pain and monotony of swimming so many lengths during such an ultra-endurance event.”
Eminem is featured heavily on the “Soundtrack of Success” because, according to researchers, “listening to Eminem inspires confidence and determination as there is a general theme of triumphing against the odds, while other songs made Ben think of his daughter and reminded him why he’s doing this historic challenge… to show that ordinary people can achieve the extraordinary.”
Here is the complete list of songs in “A Soundtrack of Success”
“Lose Yourself” – Eminem
“Not Afraid” – Eminem
“Without Me” – Eminem
“Don’t You Worry Child” – Swedish House Mafia
“Hall of Fame” – The Script
“Remember the Name” – Fort Minor
“Stay” – Sash
“We Come 1” – Faithless
“The Day Is My Enemy” – The Prodigy
“Back in the UK” – Scooter
