Music Exercise Research

[Cheetory6]

What is the ultimate music for exercising?

A question asked since the dawn of time.

Yes, finally, someone is ready to tackle this question, and as you may have guessed, that someone is me: Cheetory6. Noted enthusiast of scientific discovery, occasional listening to of music and infrequent exercise of body.

Every day I will use a fair and balanced randomized selection process to choose an album from my spotify library.

I will then exercise to it on my scientific

Standing Bike©

and then determine the song's

Intrinsic Exercise Value

or

IEV

.

The results will be plotted.

There may or may not be some additional notes mentioning other potentially pertinent but tangential findings.

Eventually we will determine some kind of valuable results which will be published in various scientific journals.

For now though, we have to start getting to work.

[Cheetory6]

Duration

:
47 minutes 40 seconds

Hypothesis

:
First half will be good. Second half will be less good.

ODOm

starting value

:
37

ODOm

ending value

:
49

Mood Indicator

:

IEV

:
8

Rationale

:
This is the first time I've biked to an album that I'm generally pretty familiar with. As expected, the first half was filled with "bangers" which really juiced the value of the IEV, but the slower and longer second half wasn't as conducive to motivated exercise. By the end hitting another 7 minute slow burner was quite a blow to my will to continue. Her singing is a high point. The layered guitars work well sometimes but I wish the technical skill matched the overall intensity of the songs.

Discussion

:
Unclear what she's saying on Sister, is it "All my life is gonna change"? or "All my life is on a chain"? Further research has resolved the matter:

"All my life I thought I'd change" yeah that makes sense.

[Cheetory6]

Duration

:
41 minutes 39 seconds

Hypothesis

:
The two songs I know off of this album are
Tricycle and Hi.
The former is a good song but unlikely to be high on IEV.
The latter is fairly frenetic.
Unsure how the album will lean overall, but I'm guessing it'll be in the 5-7 range.

ODOm

starting value

:
49

ODOm

ending value

:
62

Mood Indicator

:

IEV

:
8.1723

Rationale

:
The percussion did a lot to keep me moving. The songs were overall much more energetic than I thought they would be. Even tricycle was fun to bike to. I didn't really reach full exercise zone mode on any one song in particular, but I did get into a bit of a groove in the second half.

Discussion

:
Upstairs freaked me out holy moly I thought someone started jumping around upstairs right above me.
It's hard not to compare this album against the last one. Should I be analyzing it for its own merits? Is it even possible to without comparing it against some kind of meaningful sample size? It's all rather unclear whether the IEV will be a useful measurement value by the end of all of this.
You may have noticed, but I have also added some new measurements which I have added in retrospect for the previous entry. Hopefully this hasn't compromised the entire experiment.

[Cheetory6]

Peer Review Discussion Entry 1

:

Maybe mildly incomprehensible lyrics are a good distraction

This is an interesting point. When we have more of a meaningful sample size, we should definitely come back to this.

Peer Review Discussion Entry 2

:

is the IEV a scale, like do we yet know what the maximum IEV is or is that something we'll just have to wait and see about

We're still doing some research into exactly how IEV is generated. Early results seem to indicate that the average IEV might increase overall over time? Again, it may be too early to make any kind of conclusions though.