Videos or music, what to consume before you hit the gym? Study says: BOTH!
In a recent study from the Brunel University in London, 15 males (age = 26.3 ± 2.8 years) were exposed to four conditions prior to performing the Wingate Anaerobic Test: music-only, video and music, and video with music and motivational primes, and a no-video/no-music control.
The results indicate that the combined video, music, and primes condition was the most effective in terms of influencing participants' pre-task affect and subsequent anaerobic performance; this was followed by the music-only condition. The findings
indicate the utility of such stimuli as a pre-performance technique to enhance athletes' or exercisers' psychological states.
SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone | Loizou, G. and Karageorghis, C. I. (2014), Effects of psychological priming, video, and music on anaerobic exercise performance. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. doi: 10.1111/sms.12391