Lifting Tunes

[Schwiggity]

I can't stand my gym's music, so unless I'm making some form check videos I always have my own music I'm listening to. Recently it's been Rammstein, Skrillex, Three 6 Mafia, and the most recent Staind album.

What do you listen to when you're lifting?

[mwhities]

Five Finger Death Punch, Otep, Behemoth, Arch Enemy, and several more. FFDP seems to be the best for my squats.

[hamburgerfan]

I can't stand my gym's music, so unless I'm making some form check videos I always have my own music I'm listening to. Recently it's been Rammstein, Skrillex, Three 6 Mafia, and most recent Staind album.

What do you listen to when you're lifting?

Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Mercyful Fate usually.

[Jonathan Vechet]

The sounds of the gym and my own thoughts.

My gym doesn't play music, and I don't have an iPod or iPhone. My phone plays music, but I almost never have it on me. My car plays music, but it's too big to fit though the door.

I will listen to music on my computer when I'm in my apartment doing kettlebell swings.

[Regin Smidur]

Mostly just Blind Guardian and Tyr, with some Alestorm thrown in every now and then. The past few workouts I've had "Somewhere Far Beyond" on repeat, it gets me really pumped since its based on "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King which I've been reading and loving. Somehow knowing the story behind the lyrics makes it way better. Here is the song:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kioBCb3fRw

I've always thought that this is probably the greatest pump up song though, especially when the intro finishes:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3WJX1cIuY4

[Schwiggity]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3WJX1cIuY4

Holy fuck this is epic!

[The Emancipated Freak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sTKVN9UAnw

[drlvegas]

Motorhead, Minor Threat, GBH,Butthole Surfers,Bad Brains

[hamburgerfan]

Mostly just Blind Guardian and Tyr, with some Alestorm thrown in every now and then. The past few workouts I've had "Somewhere Far Beyond" on repeat, it gets me really pumped since its based on "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King which I've been reading and loving. Somehow knowing the story behind the lyrics makes it way better. Here is the song:


How could I forget about Tyr?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2bgwcv43o

[Dastardly]

I think I would die if I had headphones on while trying to lift, cannot understand how anyone does it. Id really like it if the gym had a stereo that everyone could use, so there would be music in the background. But they just play shit radio.

[killyouintheface]

I think I would die if I had headphones on while trying to lift, cannot understand how anyone does it. Id really like it if the gym had a stereo that everyone could use, so there would be music in the background. But they just play shit radio.

I run the cable for mine under my shirt. Works like a charm.

[Dastardly]

I run the cable for mine under my shirt. Works like a charm.

Its not the cable, but music running directly into the ear. Would be fine for resting between sets, but when getting phsyched up just before a lift, during the lift and for the minute of gasping afterwards. I need silence in my mind! I would totally trip out and become disorientated with shit in my ears.

[killyouintheface]

Oh, music:

Ahab, Acid Bath, Swarm of the Lotus, Coffinworm, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Eyehategod, Soilent Green, Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Dr. Dre, Notorious BIG, Mystikal, The Pogues, The Misfits, Red Fang, Skinny Puppy, The Tossers, Whitechapel, Reverend Horton Heat.

I'm too lazy to look through the rest of my playlist.

[killyouintheface]

Its not the cable, but music running directly into the ear. Would be fine for resting between sets, but when getting phsyched up just before a lift, during the lift and for the minute of fasping afterwards. I need silence in my mind! I would totally trip out and become disorientated with shit in my ears.

Ah ha. If it's quiet in the gym I think that'd be great. Unfortunately, a lot of gyms (mine especially) involves musical fappery for the cardio people, so I've got to drown out all the bullshit so I can think about what I'm trying to do instead of being distracted by what's going on around me.

[JM3]

Its not the cable, but music running directly into the ear. Would be fine for resting between sets, but when getting phsyched up just before a lift, during the lift and for the minute of gasping afterwards. I need silence in my mind! I would totally trip out and become disorientated with shit in my ears.

particularly with metal bands- what they do is so fucking easy - but they make it look like its just wearing them out. I would only be able to bicep curl if all I was hearing were 3 chords on distortion and a drummer doing single stroke rolls for 3 minutes.

[drlvegas]

I think I would die if I had headphones on while trying to lift, cannot understand how anyone does it. Id really like it if the gym had a stereo that everyone could use, so there would be music in the background. But they just play shit radio.

Didn't you post a clip form your gym with the Pogues playing in the background?

If you had to listen to Flo-Rida, and Chris Brown while squatting, you would figure out how to get used to headphones(or maybe just earmuffs).

This morning's barage of Al Green while I was showering & shaving has me looking into some of those waterproof headphones.

[JM3]

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This morning's barage of Al Green while I was showering & shaving has me looking into some of those waterproof headphones.[/QUOTE]

HAhaa.. I love it when music I don't like comes on like that- In the grocery store I just start singing really loud with it and get jiggitacious.

I had the sisters laughing on play that funky music white boy - which Whole Paycheck ALWAYS plays- just popping the couche off my shopping cart and smacking my ass on the beef aisle causing ruckus... fuckem for filling the air with that stupid shit.
off topic- but- another I like to do is go down and squeeze all the cereal boxes to where the FOOD actually begins and the box ends. I got called on that once and I just said- I need to know WHAT EXACTLY I'm buying- is there a problem with that?

[Mac Ward]

Whatever is playing on shuffle on my iPod in the garage. Mostly classic rock with some classical and 80's and. 90's rock. I personally do not want music that gets me riled up or raises my blood pressure. Prefer it to clam me, draw on my own concentration and do the lift. Others disagree, to each their own.

[Mr_Rogers]

All Nickelback, all the time, because I'm Canadian, eh.

[Dastardly]

All Nickelback, all the time, because I'm Canadian, eh.

I hope you are joking.

[Mr_Rogers]

All Nickelback, all the time, because I'm Canadian, eh.
I hope you are joking.

About being Canadian? ;-)

Truthfully, I can't stand Nickelback. What I actually listen to can only be considered a slight improvement though.

[Dastardly]

Canada has some excellent music, in terms of indie rock its hard to find anything bad. So many bands I like come from there.

I really dont know how nickleback came to be.

[Mr_Rogers]

I really dont know how nickleback came to be.

I think curly mullets are big out west.

[DoctorWho]

HAhaa.. I love it when music I don't like comes on like that- In the grocery store I just start singing really loud with it and get jiggitacious.

I had the sisters laughing on play that funky music white boy - which Whole Paycheck ALWAYS plays- just popping the couche off my shopping cart and smacking my ass on the beef aisle causing ruckus... fuckem for filling the air with that stupid shit.
off topic- but- another I like to do is go down and squeeze all the cereal boxes to where the FOOD actually begins and the box ends. I got called on that once and I just said- I need to know WHAT EXACTLY I'm buying- is there a problem with that?

Nothing to add, just thought the above should get recognized.

[skipbeat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNtoitb4kVo&feature=fvst

[SQUAT_316]

AC/DC, Pantera, System of the Down, Rage Aganist the Machine and yes Cinderella. I will be updating with Slayer, Metallica, Venom, Celtic Frost, Anthrax, Megadeth, Exodus, Manowar, and Overkill.

[yorick]

Chevelle almost always makes my mp3 rotation.

[RobCor]

Miley Cyrus like a baws.

[Brodie Butland]

Usually I just try to mentally block out everything, and there's no music at my gym so I don't have to be subjected to bad shit. (My former gym played Fireflies...fucking FIREFLIES...at least twice a workout session.)

For those occasions I have lifted to music, I've almost exclusively used Young Dubliners - Saoirse or The Pogues - Boys from the County Hell right before a big set.

[Corrie]

Usually I just try to mentally block out everything, and there's no music at my gym so I don't have to be subjected to bad shit. (My former gym played Fireflies...fucking FIREFLIES...at least twice a workout session.)

For those occasions I have lifted to music, I've almost exclusively used Young Dubliners - Saoirse or The Pogues - Boys from the County Hell right before a big set.

You mean hearing a man singing in a feminine voice about a thousand lightning bugs giving you a thousand hugs doesn't get you pumped to move some weight?

[killyouintheface]

Young Dubliners

Their "With All Due Respect" album is fucking magnificent.

[shootwillus]

Huey Lewis and The News.

[God of Thunder]

99% of the year I train in Zen like silence

the 1% when I need motivation it usually is:

the faster, heavier tracks on Alice Cooper's 'Brutal Planet' album

or Black Sabbath's 'I' track off dehumaniser album for the lyrics

KISS 'God of Thunder' (no surprise there!) usually a live version, and most of the tracks off their Sonic Boom album

GoT

[Tamara Reynolds]

Miley Cyrus like a baws.

You just wait.

I am going to set a snatch PR to Miley today.

[Brodie Butland]

You mean hearing a man singing in a feminine voice about a thousand lightning bugs giving you a thousand hugs doesn't get you pumped to move some weight?

In all fairness, I wasn't moving a lot of weight back then. I'm still not, but at least my lifts are closer to becoming respectable.

I am convinced that Fireflies was created through a third-grade MadLib.

[mwhities]

In all fairness, I wasn't moving a lot of weight back then. I'm still not, but at least my lifts are closer to becoming respectable.

I am convinced that Fireflies was created through a third-grade MadLib.

FireFlies helped the WonderPets! They can too help you!

[The Emancipated Freak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CegbjWmE4uU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWE9kbecx5w

[RobCor]

You just wait.

I am going to set a snatch PR to Miley today.

Make it that Climb song or whatever and I'll be rightly impressed.

[GCND]

The music piped into my gym is particularly noxious.

For me, Amon Amarth is my go-to lifting band. I have every one of their albums on my iPhone. I fill in with a very wide variety of other metal (Dark Tranquillity, Scar Symmetry, Into Eternity, At the Gates, etc. ad infinitum) for warm ups and sets. I measure rest periods by song lengths, and primarily use My Dying Bride and Katatonia (my two favorite bands) for that purpose.

[The Emancipated Freak]

The music piped into my gym is particularly noxious.

Can't you sue if they poison you?

[GCND]

Can't you sue if they poison you?

It's muzak so awful it assaults all of your senses. It is, without a doubt, poisonous to the mind and soul. And to think, this offense is occurring in your own state. You should be more concerned about this infection spreading.

Also, yes, I can.

[xagent]

Any metalheads here?

Some sludge / stoner metal:

Rwake:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnsjYTw9j6s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXE2WbmznUU&feature=related

High On Fire:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89h-X-tZa_w&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmsXYwrZxV8

[xagent]

Some technical deathcore/death metal:

All Shall Perish:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeYv9Y4hodI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W60BTKD_uUY&feature=related

The Faceless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCvels7haWA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezK2lco_MqE

[Caje]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOlc_j4rMA&ob=av3e

Dubstep (and techno in general) Or country mostly.

[skipbeat]

All Shall Perish / The Faceless

finally someone who listed bands i've actually heard of. not a huge all shall perish fan, they have some sweet songs though.

some heavy shit for those new plate PRs..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUDj4KRHDg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JafL98Ncqmk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmxT331za5g&ob=av2e

[Gorlox22]

Down - NOLA. Really the only gym music you'll ever need.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA3VgO3Vz0

[killyouintheface]

Down is pretty awesome.

[MDR2]

Right before my squat set as I was trying to think about something to get pissed off at, some motherfucker put the Tarzan soundtrack by Phil Colllins in. I WANTED to be so mad but to that music I just couldn't do it. So I conquered my set anyway. But lately for me it's been either System of a Down or the song Invisible by James LaBrie.

[PaulBeech]

Has anyone said slayer or motorhead yet?

I have a Hans Zimmer and John Williams radio station on Pandora. Epic movie tunes can do wonders.

[yorick]

Fragile Porcelain Mice have some good music for lifting. I don't know how well they are known outside of the St. Louis area:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmubJ5kLRPE

I won't embed this one, but this is the same song but might be better quality. Can't find any non-live versions on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkqb0U3mTg

[bob g]

I reserve Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused or Immigrant Song for 1RM attempts. Yes, I got the albums when they were first released.

[DoctorWho]

I reserve Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused or Immigrant Song for 1RM attempts. Yes, I got the albums when they were first released.
I'm with you, bob.

[Mark E. Hurling]

I didn't look in at this because I feel old and ignorant when I see all those bands I've never heard of. But seeing bob's and Doc's contributions I have to add:

Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

Kashmir - The Mighty Led Zeppelin

The 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky

Thus Sprach Zarathustra - Strauss

Leaves blood on the iron every time.

[Dastardly]

The melvins

[MEbigUsmall]

Metallica

[killyouintheface]

The melvins

I remember right after I graduated high school Tool was touring in support of their Ænima album, and at the Knoxville stop the Melvins opened. I was a little bit more excited to see them than I was to see Tool.