Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention

Lamont, Alexandra

doi:10.1177/1359105316674267

Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention

Lamont, Alexandra

Authors

Alexandra Lamont a.m.lamont@keele.ac.uk

Abstract

While music has been found to motivate exercisers during workouts, its potential as a pre-exercise motivator has rarely been investigated. This study evaluated a self-selected, pre-exercise music intervention against implementation intentions (writing down ‘if… then…’ sentences relating to overcoming barriers) and a control condition. Fifty participants (Mage = 43) took part in a longitudinal, randomised, between-participants study, from 99 recruited. For both interventions, participants had significantly more success meeting self-set exercise goals than the control group, and the music group exercised significantly more frequently than the control group. There was support for music as a comparable intervention to implementation intentions.

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Sep 12, 2016
Online Publication Date	Oct 25, 2016
Publication Date	Mar 1, 2019
Publicly Available Date	May 26, 2023
Journal	Journal of Health Psychology
Print ISSN	1359-1053
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Volume	24
Issue	3
Pages	309-320
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316674267
Keywords	adherence, affect, exercise behaviour, interventions, strategies
Publisher URL	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105316674267