Good thread. I think music choice is really important as well.
Jenn, I don't think I've ever heard anyone listening to classical music while working out. Unless they were working out their fingers on a piano. What are you, an alien?
King6Five...good choices. But where was Metallica? What you'd hear in any good rock bar around here.
For anything but cardio, what gets me going is some good rawk. Classic rock, metal..whatever. If there are guitars and I get pumped when I listen to it, it's perfect for my workouts.
Drowning Pool
Disturbed
System of a Down
Pantera
Metallica
Nirvana (not the depressing ones, something like Lithium)
Queen
Slipknot, Stone Sour
Slayer
U2
Van Halen
Union Underground
Whitesnake
For Cardio I tend to listen to techno and reggae..with the focus being more on drums. I'll forego the list as the one I've already got is excessively long.
I'd like to know if anyone else actually sets up specific music playlists and uses them as kind of a subconscious guideline for workout intensity. For example I have a cd where the music's tempo and aggressiveness parallels the intensity of the exercise when I do HIIT training. I'm constantly surprised at how few people do..maybe I'm just more of a music junkie than most.
Jenn, I don't think I've ever heard anyone listening to classical music while working out. Unless they were working out their fingers on a piano. What are you, an alien?
King6Five...good choices. But where was Metallica? What you'd hear in any good rock bar around here.
For anything but cardio, what gets me going is some good rawk. Classic rock, metal..whatever. If there are guitars and I get pumped when I listen to it, it's perfect for my workouts.
Drowning Pool
Disturbed
System of a Down
Pantera
Metallica
Nirvana (not the depressing ones, something like Lithium)
Queen
Slipknot, Stone Sour
Slayer
U2
Van Halen
Union Underground
Whitesnake
For Cardio I tend to listen to techno and reggae..with the focus being more on drums. I'll forego the list as the one I've already got is excessively long.
I'd like to know if anyone else actually sets up specific music playlists and uses them as kind of a subconscious guideline for workout intensity. For example I have a cd where the music's tempo and aggressiveness parallels the intensity of the exercise when I do HIIT training. I'm constantly surprised at how few people do..maybe I'm just more of a music junkie than most.