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The Efficiency of Exercising Pilates to Different Music Genres

Along with the definition of Pilates as the method of exercising aimed at strengthening and shaping the body by performing efficient exercises, popular music has been analysed and defined terminologically and the basic genre characteristics described: rock, pop, jazz, blues and funk. Art music has been dealt with as a separate category. To have an insight into the connection between Pilates and music genres, six music compilations have been prepared. Music pieces were chosen taking into consideration the popularity of pieces and their music specificities, while the order of songs in each compilation went into the trail of the song's speed, in line with the correct methodical structure of a Pilates class. The aim of the research was to determine the female students' preferences toward music genres during doing Pilates exercises and to analyse the kinesiological and music characteristics during Pilates exercises without requisites and with a requisite. The results of the research which included 45 female students of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula have shown that they felt comfortable with all music genres, lead by soul and funk music. The same music genre was chosen for variables regarding the easier performing of exercises, as well as precision and accuracy of doing Pilates exercises. The results have shown that while exercising, female students were also listening to music, following its components, especially for rock music, soul and funk and pop music ; they were usually singing along the melody of familiar soul, funk and pop compositions ; they usually showed rhythmic reactions at rock and pop music. Of all the types of music which were the subject of our research, the female students chose rock, pop, soul and funk as the most suitable choice of music for doing Pilates without requisites, while they were the least impressed by the compilation of jazz and art music. It can be assumed that the course of art music compositions from various music-stylistic periods did not, by their unstable melodic- rhythmic motion, frequent dynamic gradation and changes in music expression, motivate the connection of music and doing exercises, that is, such type of music did not represent a mitigating circumstance for the female students to perform exercises more easily and accurately.

Pilates; popular music; art music; requisite; students

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