Have you tried exercising with Jennifer Lopez’s songs pumping up the beat? Whatever your taste is, fitness music works really well to set you in the right mood when exercising. Try playing a feel good song next Sunday morning when all you would rather do is to slouch in your sofa instead of exercising. For sure you will love how the sound pushes you to become active.

Studies show that different kinds of music can create different physical results like endurance, strength, performance, and many more. For many years, researches were done to investigate on the effects of music in terms of exercise performance. These studies confirm the role that music play in allowing exercisers to increase their workloads. Other studies say that the time before exhaustion can come will lengthen through exercising with music at the background.

This could be because exercisers are allowed to focus on the music rather than on their physical fatigue. However further studies admit that fitness music can only work during low intensity workout. This is for the reason that during higher intensity exercises, the body’s internal cues of fatigue contain a greater influence on a person.

Fitness music will keep you well concentrated to the exercise. The right music will set you in a good mood for relaxation. This will clear your mind from life’s issues that do nothing but hamper your way from doing the exercise rightly. The music will make you stay focused on what you are doing. Forget about your problems, as you dedicate the moment to purely exercising— this is how music can change your workout experience.

Getting motivated to exercise through the right fitness music has become an inspiration for most. Some even cannot start an exercise without pushing the “play” button on their iPod. It should be remembered however that the kind of music you play will depend on the exercise routine you are trying to do. For example, you cannot expect to play songs that make your blood flow go faster if you wish to do yoga. Or you cannot work out on a treadmill while you play humming songs in the background.

If you are working on yoga or Pilates then choose music that are calming and relaxing to foster your wish of achieving inner peace faster. If want to do some running or walking exercises, go for pop and energizing songs. You will do fine if you can create a playlist for a particular kind of workout you do. Have a folder for music that makes you calm and another folder to set you in a hard-hitting mood.

Of course there are people who would not care about the kind of music playing when they do a workout. But you can still experiment on your own to see how a particular kind of fitness music is affecting your mood when exercising. So for some experts, choosing a gym will mean hearing the kind of music they play, however you can always do fine with a trusted mp3 player at hand. Now, what fitness music are you listening to?

Can a guitar be considered a work of art? Of course not all artwork made is meant to be hung on walls in museums. The design and sound of the Gibson electric guitar is truly unique, and luckily for us musicians, this great instrument allows us to showcase our sound to the world. With the exception of the Hard Rock Café, the Gibson Les Paul guitar was built to be played and not to be hung up on walls. With the advent of Rock and Roll the sound of the Gibson Les Paul gave musicians like Jimmy Page the sound of Led Zeppelin. Other famous rock and roll musicians from Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Pete Townsend, and Eddie Van Halen played Gibson guitars.

Rock and Roll would not be as popular today if it were not the sound of the solid body electric guitar Paul develop as well a multi-track recording. So how did Paul come up with such an innovative invention? In 1941, Paul constructed his famous “Log,” as it was called – a four-by-four piece of lumber with strings and a pickup. It was his first solid body electric guitar. As the story goes when he took it to Gibson Mandolin and Guitar Company, they laughed him out of the building. Paul didn’t give up tweaking and experimenting. And we are all thankful for it.

What was once common in restaurants and diners across America, the classic coin-operated jukebox has been replaced in the hearts of America’s teens by the IPod. The IPod is a technological breakthrough. It’s the personal jukebox of choice of our youth. It delivers incredible design and functionality all packed into a palm sized player. But it’s the jukebox that holds dear to my heart and the memories that it has given me. Jukeboxes like the IPod had style and function too. It just came in a bigger package…with lots of chrome and colored lights.

1956 Seeburg Jukebox