Want to know why you should work out with music? The Wall Street Journal has some persuasive answers: when athletes synchronize their movements to a musical beat, their bodies can handle more exertion: Treadmill walkers have been shown to have greater stamina and cyclists require less oxygen uptake. Swimmers who listened to music during races finished faster than others who didn’t. What music does it best? The journal puts that question to Costas Karageorghis, deputy head of research at the [...]

