Influencia de la música en el rendimiento físico, esfuerzo percibido y motivación / Influence of Music on Physical Performance, Perceived Exertion and Motivation

El proposito de este estudio fue evaluar la influencia motivacional del estilo de musica (clasica y tecno) frente a su no utilizacion sobre el rendimiento y el esfuerzo percibido. Se administro a 24 triatleta que hicieron tres sesiones de 20 minutos, en bicicleta estatica. Se establecieron dos grupos experimentales y un grupo control. El grupo control realizo todas las pruebas sin musica, el grupo experimental 1 realizo una primera sesion sin musica, una segunda con musica clasica y una tercera con tecno y, el grupo experimental 2, realizo una primera sesion sin musica, una segunda con tecno y una tercera con clasica. Los resultados indicaron que la musica seleccionada no influye significativamente en el rendimiento. El exito atribuido a una melodia y la asociacion de la musica con una pelicula es una de las cualidades mas motivacionales e influye sobre el esfuerzo percibido, siendo menor con musica clasica. PALABRAS CLAVE: Musica, esfuerzo percibido, rendimiento fisico, motivacion. ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which different types of music (classical or techno), or the absence of music, may affect motivation, performance and perceived effort. 24 triathletes were divided into three groups, one of which served as a control group. Each group underwent three exercise sessions of twenty minutes on the static bicycle. No music was played in any of the control group’s sessions. In the first session for Group 1 no music was played. In the first session for Group 2 no music was played.  In the second session, classical music was played for the participants of Group 1 and techno music was played for the participants of Group 2. In the third and final session, techno music was played for the participants of Group 1 and classical music was played for the participants of Group 2. Results indicate that the choice of music has little effect on performance. It appears that a song’s popularity or its association with a famous film is the most motivational factor and that this affects the participants’ levels of perceived effort, however this effect is less noticeable with classical music. KEY WORDS: Music, effort perceived, physical performance, motivation