Comments on: What's your favorite music to exercise to?

Question: What's your favorite music to exercise to?

barjo — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:37:54 -0800

What's your favorite music to exercise to?

By: everichon

everichon — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:42:48 -0800

Underworld.

By: scratch

scratch — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:42:55 -0800

Metallica.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:51:22 -0800

Ska

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:57:45 -0800

disco

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:00 -0800

Europe - The Final Countdown. On repeat.

By: saladin

saladin — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:36 -0800

Shotmaker.

Tears for Fears.

Nas's Illmatic.

By: remlapm

remlapm — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:04:53 -0800

Big Wreck or Thornley. Ian Thornley's crotch-grabbing frat-rock wall-of-Marshalls set to 11 type goodness is just packed with testosterone, but clever enough to not get boring. Or Orange 9mm, if I feel like pushing it.

By: Mean Mr. Bucket

Mean Mr. Bucket — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:05:26 -0800

Deep techno and booty rap.

By: mosch

mosch — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:06:42 -0800

I like angry-ish dance music for this purpose.

By: driveler

driveler — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:11:57 -0800

None.

Exercising is one of the few times during my day when I can focus on just one thing and I prefer to savor it. I consider music during exercise a distraction.

By: box

box — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:13:34 -0800

It depends on what kind of exercise I'm doing. If it's yoga, I usually prefer ambient, dub, ambient dub, etc. If I'm walking or doing LSD bicycle rides (uh, that's long slow distance), usually books-on-tape. For jogging and more strenuous cycling, either bebop or the kind of modern jazz that's played too darn fast. For hiking, trail running and off-road cycling, I usually opt for no music.

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:25:59 -0800

I consider music during exercise a distraction.

Yes, that's sort of the point, no? See, you're exercising, and therefore you need to be distracted from the fact that you're exercising... because it's unpleasant and stuff... not everyone is a masochist enough to "savor" it.

No workout mix would be complete without Revv Me Up, favored by Brock Samson of the Venture Bros. (top link is MP3 download). If it's good enough for Dr. Venture's Swedish murder machine, it's good enough for you!

By: Witty

Witty — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:34:38 -0800

Dixie

By: googly

googly — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:39:23 -0800

The stuff listed in this thread.

By: dicaxpuella

dicaxpuella — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:41:58 -0800

It probably sounds weird, but my absolute favorite CD for getting a great cardio workout is Rage Against the Machine's Battle of Los Angeles. I don't usually listen to "angry" rock, but that album really gets the energy up for me.

By: Rash

Rash — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:44:25 -0800

you're exercising, and therefore you need to be distracted from the fact that you're exercising... because it's unpleasant and stuff... not everyone is a masochist enough to "savor" it.

Some people are -- it's how the president thinks. He has a treadmill installed in Air Force One and runs five miles a day but doesn't even watch television during, because he "gets into the fitness." I think it's indicative of the dial tone which would register, if his brain wave was monitored.

Myself, I'm constantly searching for music (anything, really) which matches my exact running tempo. I've so far compiled four tapes, which I play with a Walkman, while running on the treadmill. This exercise would be impossible otherwise.

By: jikel_morten

jikel_morten — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:50:33 -0800

I've started watching movies while treadmilling. The first time I tried it, on a friend's recomendation, I got so distracted that I walked for an hour and a half (vs my normal 20 minutes). Well, not entirely true. I did know that I was on it for an extended period, it's just that I was so into the movie that it didn't feel monotonous.

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By: soplerfo

soplerfo — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:52:32 -0800

I think I'm in the minority here, but I like the slowest longest droneyest music I can find when I'm exercising - particularly when running - I get lost in it and easily loose track of time, it's a perfect distraction for me.

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:58:43 -0800

Garbage.

By: bibliowench

bibliowench — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:39:20 -0800

My workout mix always includes Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" - kind of meta-inspirational.

By: safetyfork

safetyfork — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:54:10 -0800

Music to match the Heart-rate. Punk, mostly. See:
Minor Threat, Black Flag, Husker Du, Misfits, Refused, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, Superchunk, Wire, Red Monkey, Operation Ivy/Rancid, Anti-Flag, The Ramones, NoMeansNo, Jawbreaker, Minutemen, The Avengers, Ex Models, The Seconds, Gang of Four, Dag Nasty/Down by Law, 7 Seconds, Agent Orange, etc.

By: angeline

angeline — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:38:34 -0800

The wretched techno-candy-pop remixes you can get in compilations from TV commercials - they have terrible names like Dance Club Fever and so forth. Dunno why, but they work

By: angeline

angeline — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:39:16 -0800

Dunno why, but they work

Ought to be: Dunno why, but they work. With a period at the end. Because me=jeenyus!

By: davebush

davebush — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:52:04 -0800

Sugar: Copper Blue

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:20:31 -0800

Rush. Great rhythms to ellipticise to.

By: jacobsee

jacobsee — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:31:05 -0800

Looker

By: kimota

kimota — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:36:18 -0800

I've gotta second caddis' mention of ska--both first generation and Two-Tone, plus a smidgen of the third gen stuff. I've repeatedly noticed that I row a lot faster whenever I'm listening to this music!

By: jacobsee

jacobsee — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:40:24 -0800

also was rocking out/jogging to shakira the other day

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:57:39 -0800

DFA compilation #1 and #2.

By: Who_Am_I

Who_Am_I — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:07:05 -0800

Most of the Global Underground sets are good for this sort of thing. They're mostly Trance, with some House.

By: mimi

mimi — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:13:22 -0800

I like to walk, and find Sir Mix-a-Lot, the long version of "Rapper's Delight," the techno "Knight Rider" remix, the full verision of "The Streetbeater" (Sanford & Son theme), and "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" by the Monkees really get me stomping good.

By: cairnish

cairnish — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:13:53 -0800

Elliptical interval training = Dick Dale Tribal Thunder.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:54:00 -0800

Liquid Child!

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:26:40 -0800

When using an MP3 player while cycle-commuting, I would play whatever I felt like listening to when I set off, but I soon noticed that some kinds of music made me chill out and I'd take a nice relaxing cycle, while other kinds would ramp me up and I'd really work hard without even realising it. Either way, it had to be music I really liked - stuff I'd get into, (and for the later) stuff that makes you want to move :)

So, just experiment until you find the music that does the opposite of chill you out. Rammstein was one of mine, but I doubt it's the same from person to person, since I think it's more important that you really like the music and really get into it, than what the name of the band is.

Music from your favourite action movie might have a similar effect :-)

By: Napierzaza

Napierzaza — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:22:35 -0800

Strange, I'll be the first one:

Squarepusher for a long time. But now it's completely the Venetian Snares. Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding is so amazingly perfect, as well as Winter in the Belly of a Snake too. So addicted.

By: raster

raster — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:41:48 -0800

Definitely Punk Rock. Loud. Fast. Exercise!