![]() Eminem is playing the role of your coach in this song. This is WAR! It is time to take down the opponent. About 30 seconds in, it is that Marine’s chant in the background. The opening seconds of one of Eminem’s most popular songs begins to boil your blood. However, each song in the list does its part to get its listener’s blood flowing, whether it is minutes before tip-off for an NBA player, or a couple of hours before some teenager plays “NBA 2K16” online in the dark against a stranger. This list is purely arbitrary with no statistical or factual basis to back anything up. Classic rock appeals to the fan demographic, perhaps however, for the player, how many young players can truly get hyped from your dad’s favorite rock song? However, arena music can be different from the best basketball hype-up songs of today. ![]() ![]() The songs are played to increase the energy levels of every human in attendance. These songs are commonplace classic rock tunes or ultra-popular dance/hip-hop cross-overs. Sports arenas across the world seem to possess a canon of arena music. So, the next time you are watching a pregame warm-up or see an athlete dancing with headphones in, you can know surmise that the music being played is all part of a greater plan for an athlete to get their mind in the right emotional state to perform well.The term “hype” nowadays refers to a feeling of rising adrenaline when a song’s beat, rhythm and lyrics fuse within a mere mortal’s soul and create a heart-racing sensation, making said mortal want to run around, shout, or sprint down the court and finish with a slam dunk. With a stimulated brain that has pulled the memory of a game-winning touchdown, last-second goal or buzzer-beater shot, athletes find that final notch to be fully locked in. That song for Valencia is “Can’t Stop” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Īnd that song has been proven to work for him as he has repeated as a national champion and is ranked No. “We do functional MRI scans,” Rogalsky said, “and during MRI scanning we are looking at changes in blood flow to different parts of the brain while they have headphones on and are, for this example, listening to a tone or melody that they have never heard before.”īecause it takes only a few seconds, athletes tend to have those last-second songs that can give them their final push to an excellent performance. “It only takes our brain a matter of a few seconds to hear those notes and instantly start thinking of those emotional memories again.”ĭoctors and researchers were curious at how the brain reacted to not just music but just words in general, so they came up with a way to test the reactions. “Our brains are really good at detecting familiar melodies or songs, so you don’t need words as you know, if you are listening to the radio and you hear those first few beats and you’re hooked,” Rogalsky said. Between making a huge and impactful play that makes the crowd jumped to their feet, to winning a championship, a song is often attached to that memory according to several athletes who were interviewed.Īnd when the brain hears that song, it can take only seconds to trigger that memory. Many athletes talk about specific events that happen to them. I’ll just put them in and lay down and sleep and make sure I get my rest so I am ready,” “I listen to a lot of different music, I mean country, rock, rap……relaxing throughout the whole tournament,” said Zahid Valencia, Arizona State’s 174-pound NCAA wrestling champion. This is why athletes tend to stick to a routine when prepping for a game: the same food, same exercise and same playlist. Those athletes wearing headphones while they warmup are actually stimulating parts of the brain to heighten skills and memory.Ĭorianne Rogalsky, an assistant professor of speech and hearing science at Arizona State University, said, “When the amygdala is active it increases our ability to consolidate memories, which is why when we hear that emotional song before the big game….you sort of trigger emotionally that part of your brain.”
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