Purpose: To find which factor, stimulation or preference, is the most essential to enhance jogging performance. Methods: 75 male university students as the participants (mean age= 19.4 ± 1.2; mean height= 175.9 ± 6.2; mean weight= 69.3 ± 9.9). Each participant completed two 12-minute jogging trials. The participants were divided into four experimental groups where degree of stimulation and preference were varied, and a fifth with post test non-music as the control group. Paired-Sample t Test and two-way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Results: The data show that neither control group nor experimental groups exhibited a remarkable difference on pretest and post test of 12-minute jogging, but interactive effect of stimulative music and preference music was significant (F = 6.408, p <.05), after simple main-effect test, the jogging performance of C group preferable to A group and D group. Conclusion: It had to listen to high preference and high stimulation music to enhance jogging performance.
Purpose: To find which factor, stimulation or preference, is the most essential to enhance jogging performance. Methods: 75 male university students as the participants (mean age= 19.4 ± 1.2; mean height= 175.9 ± 6.2; mean weight= 69.3 ± 9.9). Each participant completed two 12-minute jogging trials. The participants were divided into four experimental groups where degree of stimulation and preference were varied, and a fifth with post test non-music as the control group. Paired-Sample t Test and two-way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Results: The data show that neither control group nor experimental groups exhibited a remarkable difference on pretest and post test of 12-minute jogging, but interactive effect of stimulative music and preference music was significant (F = 6.408, p <.05), after simple main-effect test, the jogging performance of C group preferable to A group and D group. Conclusion: It had to listen to high preference and high stimulation music to enhance jogging performance.