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Off-Topic Music Whilst Training

Steve Freides said:


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Love it!

The 4 players (Lovett, Hiatt, Clark, and Ely) toured together in the 2000s. I saw the show twice. What a great time. They did songs solo and some where the other players joined in.

They are all so experienced players and such great story tellers, I thoroughly enjoyed both shows.
 
Nacho said:
Depends on the training. If I do S&S session for example, I listen to anything I’m very familiar with. If I listen to something that’s rather new to me, it takes more focus out of the training as I listen to the music in a different way. I could never listen to a podcast and do get ups with a heavy bell at the same time. What if someone cracks a hilarious joke at a crucial moment... ? When I go for a walk, that’s when I tend to listen to podcasts.
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I tried catching up on a box set while doing S&S and had to hit pause during every get-up.
Normally train in silence though did listen to PMQs on the radio yesterday.
 
blad51 said:
Love it!

The 4 players (Lovett, Hiatt, Clark, and Ely) toured together in the 2000s. I saw the show twice. What a great time. They did songs solo and some where the other players joined in.

They are all so experienced players and such great story tellers, I thoroughly enjoyed both shows.
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Lyle Lovett does the same song as in my earlier link here, but by himself, and it's the next-to-the-last thing on the program.

I tried to read the lyrics to "The 12th of June" out loud to my wife but I couldn't make it through without crying, old softie that I am.

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I am listening to Podcasts while training. Sometimes i am training without listening to anything. But i raraly listen to music nowdays. My backlog for Podcasts is so huge that i need to listen to them while training. That is why i also love go running. There i have time to listen to another hour of a podcast.
Sometimes i listen to Audiobooks aswell. But the last few month i am always on podcast. Now my Audiobooks backlog is growing more and more each month.
 
I usually end up listening to the same song over & over again. Almost always from an Anime or Video game I like. Recently I've been listening to Metal Hell from Doom on repeat.
 
I used to be strict about not listening to music, particularly when strength training, because I would always let the music cue me when to go. However, I've since learned some discipline. Additionally, I did a long 6 month hypertrophy block the last 6 months, and found that the extra psychological arousal from the music enhanced the workout quite a bit (no need to be so fresh in hypertrophy training).

Some specific pairings :

Sets of 1-3 Deadlifts: Oxygen by Datsik
Sets of 10 on Deadlift: South Texas Deathride, forget the artist
Sets of 4-6 on Squats: Enter Sandman by Metallica
Sets of 10+ on Squats: The main theme song to the video game "Halo"
Sets of 8+ on Bench Press: Mein Herz Brent by Rammstein
Lat Pull myorep bodybuilding pump BS: Tesla by Corvad

LSS running goes nice with minimal techno (don't want too many rises and falls).
Intervals does nicely with drum and bass tracks.
 
blad51 said:
I love Guy Clark too! Lovett's cover of "Step Inside This House" is so powerful! Lovett's whole "Step Inside This House" album is so great. I am a guitar player. I used to be able to sing and play that whole album. The song "Bears" written by Stephen Fromholz on that record is my go to acoustic guitar song.
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Guy Clark's Guitar is fantastic.

 
Since I work out at home, i just watch videos while I train. Movies, youtube videos, whatever.

Those of you who listen to music, you should all put on some Wesley Willis while you work out. That'll motivate you like nothing else on the planet.
 
silveraw said:
When I first met my wife we bonded over how awesome Wesley willis is.
RIP to a legend.
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When I was in university, a bunch of us went to see him peform. One of the girls had no idea who he was and she was sooooo angry during the entire concert. She was even more p*ssed off when we insisted on standing in line for his autograph. Also, she had no idea he headbutted all his fans, so she was standing in line fuming and ranting and just happened to be at the front of our group so when we got to Wesley, she was the first one he grabbed behind the head and walloped with his basketball-sized skull. She wasn't expecting it at all an we basically carried her out.
 
An amusing song to reach the ground and find out you were listening to during a Get Up: Who Was In My Room Last Night by the Butthole Surfers.
Not an amusing song to realize is playing in the middle of a Get Up: Falling Away From Me by Korn.
The indie band Tigers Jaw is good music for relaxing between sets. Actually most of Frank Turner's music is good for relaxing between sets too.
Fast and light Ramones-core like Teenage Bottlerocket, and the Queers make pretty good music to play when you want to move fast. Bad Religion, Agent Orange, The Dead Kennedys, The Descendants, the songs by Frank Turner that are not good for relaxing between sets. Actually most punk will work to make me want to move fast.
 
Years ago, I did while doing my cardio (mostly walking then). I had a cheapie MP3 player with a fold out USB plug. Only had dail-up web at home so downloading anything took forever.

These days I can't really stand to have anything in my ear. I enjoy the quiet and time alone talking to myself. Keeps people from bothering me!
 
I live for music (I’m a professional classical singer who specialises in the music of the Renaissance and Baroque) and I love all styles, but I really struggle to train if there’s music on. If I’m travelling and need to train in a commercial gym, fine, I can tune it out; but on my own at home - which is close to 100% of the time - I just relish the silence so I can be mindful in my training.

Funnily enough, though, if I’m in a ‘bodybuilding’ or barbell/dumbbell phase, I can tolerate music much more easily than if I’m focusing on kettlebell training. With the kettlebells, I find it takes more focus to make sure the technique is nailed on every rep, so I don’t want to be distracted if there’s enjoyable music playing.
 
Tom Flint said:
I live for music (I’m a professional classical singer who specialises in the music of the Renaissance and Baroque) and I love all styles, but I really struggle to train if there’s music on. If I’m travelling and need to train in a commercial gym, fine, I can tune it out; but on my own at home - which is close to 100% of the time - I just relish the silence so I can be mindful in my training.

Funnily enough, though, if I’m in a ‘bodybuilding’ or barbell/dumbbell phase, I can tolerate music much more easily than if I’m focusing on kettlebell training. With the kettlebells, I find it takes more focus to make sure the technique is nailed on every rep, so I don’t want to be distracted if there’s enjoyable music playing.
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Something about your post made me think of a difference in people in powerlifting. Some people need to increase their state of arousal before a lift, some people need to decrease their state of arousal before a lift. Finding that "right" arousal state gives them enough to lift heavy weights but not too much that it takes away from being able to lift with their best technique.

I wonder if the differences in music preferences and etc. seen in this thread reflect that.

Myself as an example - after a hard set of say clean and press or squats or deadlifts, I am working very hard to bring my arousal level back down, and immediately before a set I am trying to calmly visualize that upcoming set. Normally it is all about down-regulating that arousal level for me. Music doesn't often change my arousal level - although sometimes I will play harder music in an attempt to bump my arousal level up a bit if its low that day.
 
I almost always have to have music running just helps me focus on the workout. I usually have 3 camps of music I'll cycle through depending on how I'm feeling.
Usually it's a workout mix punk/hardcore w/: Cro-Mags, Merauder, 100 Demons, Hatebreed, Madball, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains. etc..

But also a hip-hop mix w/: Mobb Deep (Shook Ones, Pt.2 is the perfect song to attack The Wolf Day 3), Kool G Rap, Scarface, Capone-N-Noreaga, 8Ball and MJG (early stuff), M.O.P.

If it's a cardio/ballistic day I'll usually through on some DJ house/techno mixes from Mike Huckaby, Ron Trent, Omar-S, Moodymann, DJ Sneak, Mark Farina.
 
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