Gym Music...Wot the user wants..

personaltrainer

Hey all,

Just wondering wot people would like to hear in the gym when working out, I personal (especially in the evenings when the gym is packed) love dance music up loud!! Would like to hear wot others are thinking....

Cheers all

tribulus

I can see this being a thread where people just show off how diverse and obscure their tastes are.

Anyway I'm not that bothered, it's more what I'd like *not* to hear!

Something heavy-ish with a fast pace does the job although having said that some of the best lifts i've done have been with Kelly Clarkson playing on the radio!

Sangre

I really wish gyms wouldn't play music. Who doesn't have some form of personal music player in this day and age? If you have to play music for gods sake don't make it loud.

Sleepy

The right music can drive me through a workout I'm struggling with. Dance music isn't that for me. I'd be with Sangre on this, if a gym is playing music it shouldn't be up too loud as these days most of us do bring in our own.

In terms of what I like to listen to when I'm lifting - upbeat 80's rock, Placebo, Therapy?, Rocky theme tunes, The Prodigy etc. Unfortunately in my gym usually it's ****e remixes of Michael Jackson songs, whatever the latest fad dance song in the charts etc.

Kinetic^

Something up beat anyway. Dragan was doing DLs about 2 weeks ago and they had some love song on, it brought a tear to his eye as he locked out!!!!!

LeeroyJones

bit of hardcore rap goes along way, put it with some dance and the classics, such as rocky and you're onto a winner!

justsomebloke

I think it has to be a bit of..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-CQbArqwhs

cavanmaniac

Throw on the radio, simple as. Anything else and you get to know the the gym's 'repertoire' of tunes too bleedin' quick so it actually numbs your mind after a while.

WindSock

Radiohead.

I can't excercise with headphones in my ears, they fall out, even when I'm walking

projectmayhem

boreds wrote:

Radiohead.

I can't excercise with headphones in my ears, they fall out, even when I'm walking

tried in-ear ones or ones that wrap around the back of your ear?

i don't mind the dance music that my gym plays... i don't pay too much attention to it unless i recognise the song tbh... it's just not much fun to hear the "knacker" dance music that gets played sometimes though...

merritt

boreds wrote:

Radiohead.

I can't excercise with headphones in my ears, they fall out, even when I'm walking

Get those ones that hook over your ears. Cantec do some Logitech ones that are pretty cheap but sound good.

They look like these, but ain't wireless.

mloc

serious metal, hardcore rap, maybe dance for cardio.

not coldplay or britney spears, which is common down in Crunch UCD.

daveirl

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mikemac

Classical music :eek:

Mainly soundtracks,e.g Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans and have started listening to 300.

Now there's music to motivate you

JIZZLORD

an ould bit of funk cant go wrong, george clinton style yo!

Gillie

I just bring my own MP3 player with me.
There's a mix of everything on it:
Metal, Rap, Rock, Country, Opera....
Specific songs that make me focus!

Schism

I listen to my mp3 player on the threadmill but other than that I usually just kinda tune out and dont really notice whats being played. I guess something with a good beat would do the trick.

Anima

I like listening to really repetitive, minimal and long pieces of music. You get kind of hypnotised and forget whats going on around you. I find it easier to pace myself then.

I don't like listening to 4/4 dance music while running because I find I start running to the beat which sucks. Also they play really rubbish dance music which doesn't help much

Extreme-LoopZ

I usually find that stuff by NIN or Prodigy keeps me motivated, and I agree about soundtracks, the Queen of the Damned soundtrack is awesome to work out to. But anything with a good beat really:o