Firstly I’d like to say hi to everyone on the forum, this is an awesome website and I intend to spend quite a while reading the hundreds of interesting and informative posts.
I’ve been training seriously for around a year with 2-3 years half arsed nothing years in the gym prior to that. everyone seems to understand that heavy music seems to psyche you up before a heavy set but why is that? why does it take music to psychologically push you that step farther?
Also, whats everyone’s go-to song for a truly large lift?
First, not everyone listens to metal. Some people don’t listen to music at all and still put me to shame. It is impossible for us to tell you why people get “hyped up” before lifting when lifting to music.
Sometimes I get hyped up just by looking at the weight on the bar, or thinking about how ashamed my father would be if I failed to lift to weight. People have different ways of pissing themselves off before a heavy set.
Half the reason I listen to metal in the gym is that it drowns out the godawful music that gets played in gyms. Who the hell can focus on working out when some godawful R&B singer is caterwauling on just to show off vocal range?
On the upside, my gym is owned by an old circuit boy, so we get a lot of blaring house music that gets everybody pumped. Sometimes the gym even brings in a DJ. And they pump classical (Technically post Beethoven romantic) into the locker room�??Wagner makes awesome cooldown music.
I lift at home so i can sweat, grunt and yell as much as i wish wish no need for a shirt either
Even though i can blare music while lifting i don’t listen to it at all, i find that it makes me so angry and emotional that i lose my focus and my breathing rhythm while lifting the reps
Its a fact that music like metal increases the heart rate etc. But any music in general will have an affect on you in one way or another, unless you some1 who doesnt like music O_o (ive only met one person in my life, who has said to me they genrally dont like music lol).
In my gym they simply put the radio on, and ***** some serious crap gets played on it like pop tunes etc (who wants to lisen to a soppy love song, when their pumping weights right?), but one day limp bizkit - keep rolling came on, and suddenly i felt a surge of energy, no shit now, i ran to the squat rack and started pumping it like a mad man my ass was almost touching the ground when i was squatting that day.
i also changed the lyrics of that song that day from ‘keep on rolling rolling rolling’ to ‘keep on rowing rowing rowing’ lol i love it.
Perhaps metal wont pump you up, maybe classical will who knows, we are all different, but yeah music helps buddy.
And if you are gonna play music when you workout, play it LOUD.
I was listening to my personal collection of Pendulum and some Ladytron in my gym which was ,empty at the time, then a woman walked in and after about half an hour asked if she could switch on the radio.
hatebreed-facing what consumes you
in flames-cloud connected
hatebreed-never let it die, to the threshhold,
as i lay dying-an ocean between us, the darkest nights, forsaken
amon amarth-ANYTHING
all that remains-this calling master, six, focus shall not fail
staind-pressure, cross to bear
