How to find your BPM for Running Music

If you’ve read about Running Music you’ve probably also read about the fact that you need to find a BPM which is good for you, this handy dandy tutorial will teach you how to calculate the BPM perfect for you!

People Naturally have a hard time keeping pace!

That’s right, people can’t really grasp the speeds they need to be at to run effectively.  For example someone will start off running to fast and “Burn Themselves out” to quickly, on the flipside some people run slower then they really can thus not maximizing their exercising potential.

What needs to happen is you need to find your optimal BPM (which can improve and change over time) and then use Music to keep you at that optimal BPM throughout your entire run.

Steps for Finding your BPM Outdoors

1. Run straight for 15 minutes at your most comfortable pace
2. Count the number of steps in your first minute of running, then count the number of steps in your 5th minute 10th minute and 15th minute you will use all those steps to come to an average.
3. To get an average add all your 1st, 5th, 10th, and 15th minute number of steps up, and then divide by 4 to get the Average number of steps per minute.

Your average number of steps per minute is your Optimal BPM (Beats Per Minute)

Now that you have found your optimal BPM it’s time to check out some music which might fit you in particular.

Click Here to find out some tunes which might be good for you to run with.

You can preview this music through Grooveshark and then figure which ones would be good for you to try out, we recommend buying the music from http://amazon.com