Switching between silence and listening to familiar, motivating music during exercise can enhance performance.

“if people listen to music in particular music that tends to be faster more upbeat typically it's going to be in these studies rock and roll music as opposed to classical although there are some studies that have explored classical and other forms of music as it relates to exercise listening to that music in between bouts of exertion so in the rest between sets of resistance training or periodically during say a run or about a cycling can indeed enhance performance in a way that at least by my read of the data exceeds that which is observed when people just listen to music throughout”

“I find it interesting and indeed I found it useful to for instance do a workout where I only listen to music in between sets of resistance training or to listen to music prior to going out for a run and then oftentimes when I do that the song will or songs will be sort of on Loop in my head”

“what the data say is that switching up between silence and listening to music and in this case it would be listening to music that you're very familiar with and that can evoke a sense of motivation and desired action in you for whatever reason the music the beat the memories that it draws you to Etc well then that's going to be useful”