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Over the next five months, sports fans throughout the world can nominate their five favourite training songs at the online portal www.5-for-sports.com, which is operated by Sennheiser and Adidas. Anyone nominating songs on line will be in the running to win not only one of a host of instant prizes but also the chance to win the main prize: a €5,555 gift voucher for sports equipment. It’s not only about nominating your own favourites, but also for finding out what other athletes listen to when they’re training. What music does Tyson Gay listen to? How can I find the right track for jogging? ‘Good music not only makes training more fun, it's also a great motivation to train more effectively,’ says Uwe Cremering, of Sennheiser. ‘With 5 For Sports, we want to create a platform that allows sports fans throughout the world to exchange their training music.’
According to Mike McManus of Adidas, sport is more fun when you're listening to music. ‘It can motivate you, maintain your running speed or give you that extra kick when you need it for the final sprint,’ he said. ‘The most important thing is to choose the right songs. An optimum training session consists of different speed and rest phases: you should therefore choose your playlist accordingly. My favourites for interval sessions and tempo runs are DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold and Paul Van Dyk. There is nothing better than a good techno song to get your legs moving fast and into a good rhythm. For warm-downs and slow recovery jogs I pull out something from the Smiths, the Cure or REM.’
5 For Sports has five different song categories: songs for warm-up, jogging, sprinting, cool-down and relaxation. In this way, you can match your playlist perfectly to your own training. US sprinter Tyson Gay has already put his personal playlist up on www.5-for-sports.com. For warming up, he listens to DJ Khaled, and while jogging he prefers Lloyd Banks. After training, his cool-down and relaxation tracks are songs by the Black Eyed Peas and 50 Cent. The playlists of heptathlete Jessica Ennis and basketball pro Derrick Rose are also online. ‘It will be interesting to see whether there are different music preferences in Australia to those elsewhere in the world,’ says Wayne Farran, of Syntec International, which distributes Sennheiser in Australia. Farran says that in addition to the main prize, there will be 250 instant prizes awarded to selected users accessing the site. ‘There are Sennheiser headphones, iPods, iTunes vouchers, watches and other prizes from the world of sports and music,’ he said, ‘but one lucky person is going to win the gift voucher valued at €5,555, which is around $8,000 Australian at the current exchange rate, which they get to spend on sports equipment.’
For further information, please contact Syntec International or visit www.5-for-sports.com
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