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    What music do you listen to when you're working out?

    Posts: 19 Member
    edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    I blast Nirvana's Nevermind and The Beatles Let it Be. I really hate working out, so I like to listen to some of my favorite bands to make the time pass by while doing my Gazelle edge for 45 looooong minutes. :'(

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    • Posts: 908 Member
      While I actually love working out, that may be because I also love blasting my favorite tunes during it. Anything from FFDP to Stevie Wonder to some guilty pleasures like SUM 41. Right now some favorites in the mix are Baby Metal, Fear Factory, Soilwork, Whitesnake, Joan Jett and always some Queen (Don't stop me now - by far my favorite motivation tune)
    • Posts: 342 Member
      I love listening to music that gets my adrenaline going...a mix of some Beatles, Linkin Park, some Queen, Metallica, AC/DC, Adam Lambert, Joan Jett, Stevie Nix, U2, Rolling Stones. But then I've also got Madonna, Lady Gaga, Duran Duran, Emineim, Kid Rock, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Jason DeRulo, Yandel, Rhianna, BillyIdol, Bullet for my Valentine, Breaking Benjamin, David Guetta, Def Leopard, Disturbed, Marilyn Manson, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, the Who....
    • Posts: 3 Member
      edited November 2015
      I watch tv while I work out. Helps me focus more than music does no clue why!
    • Posts: 8 Member
      I alternate Playlist last few workouts have been a Playlist I call BULL VS DRAGON, it's Dan bull, VS (Andrew huang), and G-dragon
    • Posts: 314 Member
      Metal, more metal, and occasionally some punk. \m/ \m/

      I don't make playlists because I'm lazy but just alternate albums on my MP3 player.

      Not sure if the OP is someone who enjoys podcasts, but I have listened to podcasts before while grinding out cardio on a machine. It helps me zone out from what I'm doing easier. For lifting though, music.
    • Posts: 142 Member
      Audiobooks for me. For a while now I have been listening to a lot of the old classics that you can download for free.
    • Posts: 95 Member
      At the moment its kpop, but I listen to Britney Spears quite often.
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    • Posts: 145 Member
      If I listen to music it's pop for cardio rock/metal for strength.
    • Posts: 45 Member
      RachelMaeLash wrote: »
      I watch tv while I work out. Helps me focus more than music does no clue why!

      I do the same! Pop some Gilmore Girls onto Netflix and get 'er done! :D
    • Posts: 426 Member
      I listen to Apple Music Radio, Workout-Dance station. I need variety and get bored with the same songs.
    • Posts: 3,472 Member
      Thrash/Speed metal. It needs to be something I can get pumped up to.
    • Posts: 5,527 Member
      Metal. Hatebreed, Darkest Hour, In Flames, Slipknot, Bleeding Through, As I lay dying, 5FDP.
    • Posts: 625 Member
      So happy to see I'm not the only FFDP fan on here. My lifting playlist is primarily heavy metal, mostly FFDP, volbeat and other bands mixed in. Cardio is a more upbeat playlist.
    • Posts: 2,226 Member
      I don't listen to music when I workout. The ear buds are annoying. I spend time praying and talking to my Heavenly Father. :)
    • Posts: 9 Member
      Tiny Tim plays the hits of Megadeath.
    • Posts: 3 Member
      I play the same few songs and I mostly just run a mile 5 times a week along with watching calorie intake. But my songs are Collard Greens, BBHMM by Rihanna, and Twist my Fingaz by YG. Rap gets me pumped for a run lol.
    • Posts: 353 Member
      Metal \m/ -ensiferum & skeleton witch mostly. :)
    • Posts: 3,979 Member
      I've been obsessed lately with Pop Goes Punk and Pop Goes Metal playlists - punk and metal covers of pop songs. Fun and fast, which is what I like for working out.
    • Posts: 2,598 Member
      edited November 2015
      Earth Crisis, Trivium, Necrophagist, Childern of Bodom, Atreyu, The Cro-Mags, Freya, Verse, Verbal Assault, Negative Approach, Unsane, Melvins, Clutch, Dying Fetus, Reign Supreme, Comeback Kid, boysetsfire, All Out War, No Escape, Judge, Goatwhore, Helmet, Quicksand, Grimple, Econochrist, Infest, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Syslosis, Snapcase, Unearth, Cancer Bats, Amebix, Assuck, are in my regular rotation.
    • Posts: 1 Member
      I just listen to my usual music: Green Day, Rise Against, Blink, Autumn to Ashes, Offspring, Pearl Jam, Staind, P.O.D, Butterfly Effect, RATM...
    • Posts: 421 Member
      I play music when I run. When I first started i made a Playlist of some of my favorite upbeat songs. I now changed to my favorite slow beat album portishead - portishead as it helps me run slower and much much longer.
    • Posts: 49,167 Member
      I'm weird. I listen to either sports radio (especially fantasy football analysis) or talk radio. Music sometimes, but time seems to run by faster for me when I'm listening to these 2.

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    • Posts: 2,035 Member
      Metal / hard rock all the way.
    • Posts: 145 Member
      ninerbuff wrote: »
      I'm weird. I listen to either sports radio (especially fantasy football analysis) or talk radio. Music sometimes, but time seems to run by faster for me when I'm listening to these 2.

      When I go for my lunchtime walks I listen to a podcast. It definitely makes the 30mins walking the grey parking lot, with the same scenery, over and over much less mundane than it did when I listened to music. I end up going a little faster since I'm not unconsciously restricting myself to a tempo.
    • Posts: 187 Member
      edited November 2015
      Hard rock/metal mostly, but I listen to that all the time so its not much of a deviation for me.
      Special mention for Ozzy's Let Me Hear You Scream; I can (and have) repeat 1 that for cardio, I mean come on:
      'Nobody said it's easy; it's do or die, only the strong survive!'
      'If you're gonna go down, go loud, go strong, go proud, go on or go home!'
      That song was made to rage work out to :D
    • Posts: 24 Member
      I'm on a Trevor Hall kick.....Brand New Day and Fire
    • Posts: 53 Member
      Trance - Armin Van Buuren, old Tiesto, Electric Universe...anything that has at least 140bpm and doesn't include screaming.
    • Posts: 410 Member
      I listen to a lot of rap and dance music. Gets me feeling rowdy and energetic!
    • Posts: 937 Member
      Metal when I'm lifting and indie/alternative when I'm running!
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