High-groove music boosts running speed and mood in women

High-groove music boosts running speed and mood in women

An experiment conducted in Japan in which university students ran on treadmills for 10 minutes found that female students tended to run slightly faster and reported being in a much better mood after listening to high groove music while running compared to a situation in which they listened to low groove music. The paper was published in the Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. Groove in music refers to the sense of rhythmic flow or “feel” that…