what music do you listen to while running/ training

jon1981

hey,

i like some dance with loads of beat, chemical brothers, fedde le grand, massive attack, even the song from the mortal kombat movies (its class lol )...what stuff gets you motivated?

estebancambias

Blink 182
Eminem
NWA
Plus 44
Good Charlotte
Kanye West
Mathbox 20
Nelly Furtado
That song 'your the best' as seen in the Karate Kid.

justsomebloke

kylie with "i should be so lucky" seriously if you haven't tried it put it on your mp3 player do some heavy squats and get back to me

jon1981

jsb wrote: »

kylie with "i should be so lucky" seriously if you haven't tried it put it on your mp3 player do some heavy squats and get back to me

abit too hard core for me

pwd

aggressive music like rob zombie or rage against the machine for weights
upbeat music like the killers or fatboy slim for running.
Recently listening to Whipping Boy during weights, which isn't aggressive, but put me in the right mindset to psuh myself anyways

empirix

estebancambias wrote: »

Blink 182
Eminem
NWA
Plus 44
Good Charlotte
Kanye West
Mathbox 20
Nelly Furtado
That song 'your the best' as seen in the Karate Kid.

Possibly the worst musical taste i have ever scene - astounding, well done!

cunnins4

i have a few of the rocky songs, eye of the tiger, and the one that the training's done to in the first two films, cheesey, yes, but good motivators.

Sometimes when i'm running a nice mellow song's cool because it calms me down if i'm hurting, but most of the time it's fast paced stuff ranging from oasis, ocean colour scene, to metallica, led zeppelin and AC/DC.

Each to their own really.

estebancambias

empirix wrote: »

Possibly the worst musical taste i have ever scene - astounding, well done!

What the Hell do you like? U2? Dance music?

TheThing!

Top Gun Anthem...that is all

cunnins4

TheThing! wrote: »

Top Gun Anthem...that is all

Danger Zone???? Now THAT'S A SONG!!!!

Kevster

My favourites are:

Beegees - You Win Again
Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven
Jefferson Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth

Metallica's Unforgiven is good too.

Malteaser!

I don't listen to any music in the gym, I find it's a bit distracting.

eroo

WEIGHTS:
Metallica
Bad Religion
Mushroomhead
Pantera
Audioslave

RUNNING:
Alkaline Trio
Millencolin
BloodHound Gang

more than that but just cannot think of them at the mo..

TheThing!

cunnins4 wrote: »

Danger Zone???? Now THAT'S A SONG!!!!

How could I forget? In fact that album has a few really good workout tunes on it, Through the fire, Dangerzone, Mighty wings and of course, top gun anthem!!!!

EileenG

Gotta be Guns n Roses for lifting.

I quite like "Another one bites the dust" from Queen for kick boxing practice.

justsomebloke

fine if yous don't like kylie then put on a pait of baggy trousers and put on can't touch this, just remember to do the shuffle

matrixroyal

Rage against the machine, pure aggression

notable mentions :

rammstein
metallica
foo fighters
linkin park

rubadub

Kings of leon, white stripes, rolling stones, some old prodigy and chemical brothers get me going when cycling.

Sound isolation earphones are great for blocking out other noises and allowing you to concentrate (can be dangerous due to this reason of course, e.g. running/cycling). I would recommend the shure e2c or e3c which can be picked up cheaper (not cheap!) online as the dollar is so weak and shure have a new range out.

21stone

what is that really catchy kings of leon song ???

the beat of the radio , etc pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

rubadub

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kingsofleon/fans.html

if you have a few lyrics of any song then just stick it in google using quotes
" "

and stick in the band name if you know it. When you put in quotes google searches for that exact quote, those words in that order. So best pick some obscure lyric if you can.

http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q=%22beat+of+the+radio%22+kings+of+leon

jon1981

21stone wrote: »

what is that really catchy kings of leon song ???

the beat of the radio , etc pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

would it be "fans"

21stone

cheers men

class song

i have the rocky montage or hearts on fire , burning heart , hoobastank the reason is quite good , dont stop me now by queen ?????

no one knows by queens of the stonage , or monkey wrench by foo fighters

BossArky

I don't bring my ipod to the gym. I may have done once of twice before but found that I had to turn the volume up too high in order to drown out the cr@p played over the gym sound system. I would rather save my ears.

rubadub

BossArky wrote: »

I don't bring my ipod to the gym. I may have done once of twice before but found that I had to turn the volume up too high in order to drown out the cr@p played over the gym sound system. I would rather save my ears.

Thats what I was recommending sound isolation ones for. They go in your ear like ear plugs. Some muscians use them to listen to their own playing during concerts. Great on buses full of nattering students. Also blocks out the wind effect you get wearing headphones out walking or cycling.

Jimmy Bottlehead

I find heavy stuff good for doing weights... Motorhead, Nashville Pussy, Ozzy, Queens of the Stone Age, also White Wedding by Billy Idol

BossArky

rubadub wrote: »

Thats what I was recommending sound isolation ones for. They go in your ear like ear plugs. Some muscians use them to listen to their own playing during concerts. Great on buses full of nattering students. Also blocks out the wind effect you get wearing headphones out walking or cycling.

My headphones are isolation ones!

Another reason I don't listen to my ipod in the gym is that I grunt too loadly without my ears as part of the feedback loop.

jon1981

on another note, what earphones would ppl advise using, the regular ones that come with the player always slip out??

Jimmy Bottlehead

The Sony Ericsson ones (they come with the phones but I'm sure you can buy them) sit into the ear canal and don't come out easily! The trailing cord is the problem!

Dragan

I've got a handy little arm strap to hold the Ipod, keep the earphones in by wearing a hat.

Music of choice for working out is Slipknot, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Machinehead etc.

Anything angry will do.

rubadub

There are 2 types of sound isolation ones. Some are normal earphones that have a microphone on them, this microphone is listening to outside noise and sends a reverse soundwave down your ear to cancel the outside noise. The others are like earplugs, and you stick them in so they do not fall out easily, the shure e2c e3cs e4cs are like this, and amazing quality, normal ones sound brutal after using them for a while.

The trailing cord is the problem!

My shures are too long normally. there is a eg3 version (for gamers) with a shorter lead. I simply gather mine in a loop near the jack and tight a very loose knot in it to shorten it. I still want it long on occasion, going into a PC

blinkey 101

jon1981 wrote: »

hey,

i like some dance with loads of beat, chemical brothers, , massive attack, even the song from the mortal kombat movies (its class lol )...what stuff gets you motivated?

its funny i never normaly listen to this but once on the treadmill :)born slippy ,a little less conversation, we will rock you queen, bubba sparxxx ugly, right here right now fat boy slim ,rosalie philo, or good old faithless , or one i like to do on the treadmill to keep me running is pretend im been chased by a cop:o or is that just me:o:confused

ShaneU

Calvin Harris - I created Disco...really loud!

blinkey 101

ShaneU wrote: »

Calvin Harris - I created Disco...really loud!

talk to me itailain marble fire place terry tibbs what do you mean

ShaneU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Created_Disco

Cravez

Dragan wrote: »

Music of choice for working out is Slipknot, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Machinehead etc.

Anything angry will do.

Hell yeah! Angry music for heavy lifting! Whenever im in Pinnacle, Heavy tunes 1 & 2, System of a down etc is always playing

Khannie

Prodigy or Oribital for running. Wouldn't listen to music otherwise tbh.

Fast_Mover

Anything upbeat/poppy/dancy. Songs that would get me bopping around a dancefloor in a nightclub bascially!:D
Gets the blood pumping for me while im out running anyway..can also be seen singing to them!:o

Leon11

I despise Rap, Hip Hop etc but I'll listen to DMX all day if I'm lifting. The man is so angry it's not even funny.

Reyman

I'm afraid I have to put up with major noise (music) in my Gym when I'm working out. It's a a hell of a distraction to my concentration.

And as for TVs playing MTV all over the place. What kind of morons do they think we are?

Cheeky_gal

This is a MUST HAVE in the gym... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxLFXCZowas

An incredible motivational song....seriously check it out & I'll come back with more classics for you all cuz it seems as though a lot of you don't know real music from shoite! lol

SuprSi

I have to admit to being slightly surprised by the music selection here. It makes me wonder why gyms always play crappy dance music rather than more generic music that everyone 'might' listen to.

Me, I listen to dance music, almost solely. Not the crappy kind that blares over the gym speakers mind you, but 'proper' dance music I don't think I could listen to anything else when working out.