I really like to crank up ? when working out/running?

We all have our favorite music for exercising. I am partial to live Dead or Widespread Panic. How about you? I apologize if this is a duplicate thread. Seemed apropos as we get ready to be assaulted by those New Year's lose weight resolution stories/ads. I like woods trail running myself and really can focus on some detailed listening as I wind down a trail.

 

I like The Donnas for the bike/treadmill.

 

For road/trail running I don't listen to music because there have been times I've had either pit bulls or rotwiellers hot on my heels, and I would not have know they were there. On days where it's just to miserable to run I do step aerobics where I really crank it up with The Who, Tom Petty, Neil and the Horse, etc.

 

I started running 22 years ago when I turned 40 and have never listened to music while running. I run outside and enjoy the quite and solitude.

 

Metallica ~ St Anger

 

Tommy and The Who By Numbers

 

Misfits

 

For me yesterday it was some of the Grateful Dead Complete Fillmore West 1969

 

Usually AC/DC - Let There Be Rock - The Movie (1979) but lots of other stuff, too

 

MixMP3's (or whatever we call mixtapes these days). So whatever tickles my fancy at this period of my existence -- could be some older songs that fell back into my radar, or new songs that get me pumped up at the gym.

Examples of some newer stuff in my current "Workout" music folder:

James - Frozen Britain
matt pond PA - Last Night
Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
Alvvays - Party Police
The Awesome Welles - Undertaker
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Canyon Moon
Jukebox The Ghost - The Great Unknown
Robert Plant - Rainbow
Gorgon City - Unmissable
Gorgon City - Here for You
Interpol - My Blue Supreme
Haerts - Giving Up
Taylor Swift - Shake it Off
The Twilight Sad - I Could Give You All That You Don't Want

 

Donna Summer - Bad Girls, On The Radio
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson, On The Corner, Big Fun, Get Up With It, In Concert, Live-Evil, Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangaea
Herbie Hancock - Future Shock, Sound-System

 

There is a "school" of training known as "Long, Slow, Distance" (LSD).



Since a lot of my marathon training was done to the Grateful Dead, I thought one day I might write a book called "LSD With The Grateful Dead" (pun intended). At the peak of my distance training, I stopped striving to achieve a given distance and just tried to maintain a pace (9 minute miles) for the length of an entire concert. Saratoga '88 was the first show I ever "finished". When you run to Dead shows, "Drumz/Space" is the "heartbreak hill" - you have to fight through the monotony until the next song starts to take shape, and then you know you are in the "home stretch". It may explain why I love "I Need a Miracle" to this day. (My one and only full marathon was run to Led Zeppelin - LA - 6-21-77. Bonzo's drum solo and Page's Theremin solo being the big challenges. I finished the concert and "encored" with "The End of The End" by Paul McCartney, as death felt imminent.)

I cannot imagine running without music. I feel like I'd never make it.

 

audio rip of this,
continuous loop.

 

So, basically, you crank up "the silence".

 

My latest playlist is Public Enemy with Smashing Pumpkins Siamese dream and U2 Boy. For a long time it was Rhino's 60's box of soul.

 

This works for me. Along with collection.

 

Today-something different for me-Mountain into Cream into Pearl Jam Live.

 

I do 40 minutes on the elliptical machine almost every morning. What I listen to varies. Many days I'll put on DSOTM. This morning I listened to Black Sabbath Greatest Hits. On the weekend I usually lift weights and will typically put on some Metallica.

 

Toto

Terrible to think to but great to sweat to.

 

Last night: Shostakovich 12th symphony conducted by Kondrashin from Melodiya box copied onto iPod classic. Today? Maybe some King Crimson live from the Great Deceiver. Life Is Good!

 

At my school in England for the last couple of years, those doing weightlifting would be allowed to go off running on their own for the entire sports session if they wanted. So I would go off running around the area surrounding the school which had a lot of forest to it. Although I didn't like the school very much due to a number of factors, this running is a positive memory for me.

I would listen to Iced Earth's Night Of The Stormrider obsessively whilst doing this and it is a perfect album to run to because of the constant varying in tempo and the immersive, dark feel. Run during the headbang sections, jog during the midtempo stuff, cool off during the slower sections. The forest was very conducive to immersion in the fantasy world of this album. As a proggy fantasy thrash album it's second to none.

Favorite track: Mystical End (Track 5), but here's the whole thing.

 

Black Keys is good for this

 

I prefer Jazz or Classical when running. I run 4 miles every morning after breakfast, 7 days a week. I'm lucky to have a river trail near my house that I never tire of and the opportunity to hear great music while I run is a real blessing.

 

I thought this was going to be about breaking a sweat to the strains of "96 Tears".

 

I crank a lot while browsing this forum.