{"id":30323,"date":"2026-09-29T02:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=30323"},"modified":"2026-09-29T02:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:47:28","slug":"how-smelling-dark-chocolate-can-instantly-increase-your-workout-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=30323","title":{"rendered":"How Smelling Dark Chocolate Can Instantly Increase Your Workout Volume"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A \u201csweet\u201d new study has found that simply smelling some chocolate could lead to more reps without the workout feeling tougher to complete, and while this news sounds like a bizarre work of Willy Wonka style fiction, scientists suggest that food aromas may increase our level of motivation, because of our relationship with eating.<\/p>\n

\u201cExposing moderately trained men to chocolate odors right before and between sets of resistance exercise significantly increased their overall training volume without increasing their perceived exertion,\u201d said Dr. Mohamed Nashrudin bin Naharudin<\/a>, who was a senior author on the study published in Frontiers<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0\u201cSeeing a substantial increase in repetitions without the athletes feeling like they were exerting themselves any harder is a fascinating psychobiological outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

How was the study carried out?<\/h2>\n

A small sample of 23 men, in their 20s, were split into three groups. 15 minutes before exercise, the subjects were given repeated exposure as follows:<\/p>\n