Influência da música e comando verbal no desempenho de exercícios de abdominais "Crunch".

BACKGROUND: The practice of physical exercises has become more and more frequent, as well as external motivational strategies during their performance, such as music or other auditory resources. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the influence of musical and verbal stimuli when compared to silence, without interference of sound or speech on performance during the abdominal crunch. METHODS: Third young volunteers participated in the study, 15 males and 15 females, trained for at least 6 months in bodybuilding, mean age 23.7±3.0 without intercurrence of injuries in the region abdominal. The volunteers were submitted to the execution of sit-ups "crunch", these being on the random influence of three situations in the test: 1) Musical Stimulus; 2) Verbal Stimulation; 3) Silence. At the end of the application of each test, the volunteers responded to the Adapted Scale of Perceived Exertion. RESULTS: Without specifying one of the variables, comparing between genders, men performed better than women (p<0.05), however, between groups, the stimuli "silence", "music" and "verbal command" did not showed significant effect (p>0.05). CONCLUSION: Music and verbal commands do not influence performance while performing abdominal exercises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]