What you do at the gym could end up hurting your hearing!

Its time to turn down your iPod and listen to this:

Turning up the volume to get pumped up could end up costing you your hearing.

Although the golden days of aerobics have retired loud fashion choices, the music at the gym keeps cranking up the volume.

The average level of music in spin classes reaches close to 99 decibels, which is close to a jet engine 80 feet off the ground!

The study also showed that listening to anything over 100 decibels can cause hearing damage after just 15 minutes.

To avoid hearing damage or loss, you shouldnt be exposed to anything over 80 decibels, which is equivalent to the sound of a motorcycle.

As far as the gym, increasing the tempo of the music, not the volume, is the best way to get a class moving!

The National Acoustics Laboratory, a research division of Australian Hearing Hub, teamed up with the University of Newcastle to conduct the comparative study.

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Life Lessons: Going deaf at the gym