Effect of music during exercise on heart rate and RPE among handball players in UiTM Seremban 3 / Siti Nurfatihah Kassim

Music therapy is increasingly used in sports for enhancing sport performance.This present study examined the effect of music during exercise on heart rate and RPE among handball players. In this study we tested the effect of music on submaximal exercise with and without music. IO handball players aged from 18 to 24 years old were recruited for the study. The reading of heart rate is recorded each minutes meanwhile the RP scales has been taken for every 3 minutes. The submaximal test is walk-jog-run test where they run every 4 minutes for speed 4mph, 6mph and more than 6mph until they reached their 75% of maximum heart rate. Data was statistically analyzed using one way repeated measure ANOVA and 0.005 level of significance was set prior to the study. The result showed that the p value of heart rate for both group : with and without music is 0.0938 which is greater than alpha level 0.005. However, the p value for RPE for both group is 0.002 which is less than alpha level. Therefore, we can conclude that there is no significant effect of music towards heart rate but on the other hand there is a significant effect of music towards RPE among handball players UiTM Seremban 3.