Performance Enhancing Music
24th August 2021 - Article by Nick Fulton
How Did Personalised Audio Help Athletes Prepare for the Tokyo Games?
Listening to personalized audio combining positive affirmations, personal mantras, scientifically tested tones, and binaural beats, swimmer Mack Horton improved his 2km time trial by five seconds.
While the vast majority of us remained cooped up at home for the past 18 months, athletes were performing without friends, family, and of course, fans in the stands. Nowhere was this more evident than in Tokyo, where athletes from 206 countries recently competed for gold. Preparing for such high-pressure performance is difficult at the best of times. Still, the challenge is even more immense during a pandemic.
So, to compensate for the lack of people there to provide that extra adrenaline boost, some of Australia’s best athletes adopted an unorthodox training regime using PERSONALISED AUDIO.
Working in partnership with Resonance Sonic Branding & several members of the Songtradr group - they played a key role in helping these athletes achieve peak performance. Led by Samsung Australia and Optus, supported by CHE Proximity, and soundtracked by some of Australia’s leading musical talent (including Sheppard and Alex the Astronaut), their music experts helped create personalised audio to provide the ultimate performance-enhancing experience.
The result? Listening to Personalised Audio combining Positive Affirmations, Personal Mantras, Scientifically Tested tones & Binaural Beats, swimmer Mack Horton improved his 2km time trial by five seconds.
‘Listening to music is a type of legal performance-enhancing drug.’
Dr. Costas Karageorghis :: Brunel University
In Tokyo, he won bronze in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay. Steph Cately and the Australian women’s soccer team also exceeded expectations. Ranked 9th by FIFA, they competed with the world champion U.S. team for third place.
Altogether, Australia won almost as many medals as other nations with many times the population.
Music clearly made a difference…