TMO surveys over the years have revealed that you're all a fit lot, keen on keep-fit and the beautiful bum! But it would help TMO to improve products and services if you reply to this quick (and fun) quiz.
what music do you currently listen to while you "work out"
I have gone thru a variety of unlikely tracks during my last decade of relative fitness: in the mid-1990s, crunches to Lush "Childcatcher" (same song every day for 2 weeks), more recently, bicep curls and press-ups to Simple Minds, "Street Fighting Years" (again, repeatedly for most of September... as a five minute song with lots of different prog-rock "phases", you could easily time different stages of your mini-workout to the shifts in Jim Kerr's masterly composition).
Down the gym I always used to accept what I was given, which in "tae bo" mostly meant godawful r'n'b, a sludge glittering with odd gems like "Oi" by More Fire Crew, T. Amos' "Professional Widow" and, on one glorious occasion, "Billie Jean". As the only white man ever to stick out this group for longer than one week, I am a bit of an ethnic minority in Catford "tae bo", and have to sit sadly excluded when the instructor gives a speech about this music is Reggie, it's your birthright...all of us are here cause we got Reggie in our blood! I want you all to shout on three, I love Reggie! [NB. "Reggie" = reggae.]
On the treadmills and weight decks I had to put up with KISS, ie. "Hey Ya" ten times an hour interspersed with am-dram adverts for BT or Virgin, and DJs inviting listeners to phone in with ow are u biggin it up in ur car right now tonite, let us kno ow u are all sexxin it up in ur vehicle.
But today I was clever, making me realise how stupid I had been for the last eighteen months, and took in my own music! It's what you might call... "girly beats". Just right for working up a glow on the treadmill then hitting the Juice Bar for a tasty carrot and orange mocktail with a healthy handful of nuts and seeds, before eyeing up that cute guy in the sauna! That's if you live in Company magazine. If you go to Catford it is more about waiting to use the exercise bikes because two women are sitting on them not pedalling while their kids sprawl over the rowing machine doing colour in in from a colour in in book.
Anyway what is your current "workout music", your phit phat sounds? Here is mine.
"Crazy in Love"
Mash=Up Girls Aloud vs Madonna ("Beautiful Stranger" / "Some Kind of Miracle")
Perhaps we can share some tips for great sounds that really liven up your workout? My tracks are mainly designed for running because that's "my bag" (3 km!) but perhaps you've gone a stage further and selected "warm up" and "cool down" sounds, plus different tunes for each type of exercise?
Posted by damo (Member # 722) on :
unfortunately i have no personal music system (apart from the two turntables in my head that lets me cut up whatever the fuck i want. bro') so i gets to listen to the joy of whiny white rock. and other such middle of the road 4 cuteboysinageetarbandcryingabouthowharditisbeingslightlymisunderstood.
if i did have my choice it would probably include some ritchie hawtin, dave clarke, slam etc for the hard grind of the running like.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Sorry for the glitch that meant nobody was able to post to this thread! It's now been resolved and we'd love to hear your comments fuckers
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
I was with while you were asking about what music we were listening to, then you said "while working out".
I might be taking ice skating lessons next year though!
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
You could include "walking around" as "working out"... for the sake of the thread!
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
I'm ashamed to say, I once worked out to the theme to the Six Million Dollar Man.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I was bench-pressing 300lbs when some smart-arse put 'The Flight of the Bumble-Bee' on. Both my arms broke off.
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
I haven't bothered to take music with me to the gym for a while (for that matter I haven't bothered with the gym much for a while), but for some serious weightlifting you can't beat a good bit of angry, crunchy metal, Rage Against The Machine or the like, anything that really gets you 'angry' and buzzing on adrenaline, that's what always used to work for me anyway, a good bit of anger can be the difference between forcing the last couple of reps through or wussing out.
For running or cycling something with a fairly repetitive beat is good for helping you find your rhythm and for distracting you from the fact that what you're doing is basically torturing yourself in the name of fitness.
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
I'm stuck with the radio in the gym as I don't have an iPod/MP3 player or some other non-jogging music device.
For running, I tend to hope that someone's put XFM on instead of Radio 1 or Capital. BBC 6 music would be better but there's no DAB radio. American Idiot by Green Day seems to do the trick for me on the treadmill. As would a spot of Primal Scream, say.
For weights I don't really care as long as it's not shitty manufactured pop or shitty manufactured R&B (ie. Radio 1). And I seem to be able to do Pilates despite whatever background noise there is - for some strange reason something a bit melodic and singalong (e.g. Crowded House) is more soothing than the excessively mystical eastern-stylee music they tend to play at classes.
[ 16.12.2004, 08:21: Message edited by: OJ ]
Posted by Astromariner (Member # 446) on :
During my ill-fated affair with the gym I did have a workout tape. I can't remember much of what was on it, apart from that "Comin' On" by the Shamen always started playing when I'd get to the cross trainer, and then I'd remember that it had begun to really get on my nerves and that I'd meant to make a new tape that didn't feature "Comin' On" by the Shamen, and I'd have to stop halfway up an imaginary hill to fastforward through it to get to "Block Rockin' Beats", so that I could resume cross training activity. This happened every visit for about 3 months. I hated the gym.
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
We don't have badminton to music. This sucks. I think I may have to see if we can introduce it.
I do however go to bodybalance and also to step at my local sports facility. Tracks include Evanescerfescent, Bruce Springsteen [how happy was I!!!!], and lots of interchangable dancy type things such as Toca's Miracle. BUT! The main reason I bothered answering this is that our powertrack is done to "Eye of the Tiger" which I think has to be the BEST workout tune, ever.
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by saltrock: "Eye of the Tiger" ...has to be the BEST workout tune, ever.
"Saltrock, I did iiiiit!!" Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
My God!!! Doesn't he look young Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
at aqua they used to have a tape which i loooooved. it included:
'rock dj' 'sex bomb' that bloodhound gang one that mentions the discovery channel who let the dogs out the spice girls- people of the world! spice up your life! i liked it when that coincided with doing jumpy-up-and-down stomach-crunches, it made me feel like a proper girl. spinning around mambo no5
i cant even remember half of the tracks on it but they were all similarly cheesy. mambo no5 usually coincided with the point in the session where i would start feeling a bit whizzy and spacing out into 'the zone'- which will tend to make you stand out in a an aquaaerobics class because most of the obese fifty something women in the pool cant keep up with the instructor. they just sort of bob around a bit and maintain a conflab with their neighbour about their menustrel issues. or asylum seekers. especially the ones in woolwich. they are the worst, apparently. worse than the ones in thamesmead, even.
anyway all of these songs are so ingrained into my head that even three years later and one stone heavier if i hear them they make me feel lighter and endorphinised and almost as if i could stretch my leg out in front of me and touch my toes without it hurting very much. and now i want to go to aqua but ive missed the last class before the christmas hols! :angry/fat:
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
"Spice Up Your Life" sounds like a good one. I always liked the line yellow man in / timbuktu. It is also true that you come to associate a track with the activity, to the extent that you get sick of the song, or even begin to detest a certain passage of the song because it always means the part where you start to hurt or want to stop. I don't think I'd enjoy "Street Fighting Years" now after listening to it five times a week for a month -- but then, many people wouldn't enjoy it even without that association! lol I have probably been responsible for the most airplay of that track in 2004.
My "Helen Adams Dance Workout" DVD, which I used to do for 50 mins a week, features "club remixes of Spinning Around, Strong Enough, Relight My Fire and Another Chance." I couldn't listen to any of those now without also mentally hearing Helen's dozy cues: now we're stretching your ham sandwiches... and, flick your fingers... flickin! now punches, pretend yer Mike Tyson... and, pec deck, try sayin that when yer drunk! Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: My "Helen Adams Dance Workout" DVD, which I used to do for 50 mins a week, features "club remixes of Spinning Around, Strong Enough, Relight My Fire and Another Chance." [/i]
Kovacs entertaining friends at home.
Posted by Honey (Member # 182) on :
what about the new remix type song of 'follow me' judging by the video the video that's supposed 2 be q workout type song
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I love that video.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Honey, you've been registered for over two years and you've managed under fifty posts. Wha' Happen?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Back when I did "exercise", it was usually to Fear Factory (Demanufacture) and Rage Against the Machine (Battle of Los Angeles). Fear Factory was best for weights n stuff, RATM better for the running machine. They had a machine at my gym for your abs - I remember one time I tried to use it for three songs worth of Demanufacture, attempting to keep time with the drumming. The next day my stomach muscles hurt so much I couldn't eat, or stand up straight.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I used to run to work from Paddington to the City, and The Pogues were fantastic. A bit of the Best Of, and some U2, some Madonna. I always hit the same places at the same time, too, so the corner of Sussex Gardens and Edgware Road is forever The Irish Rover, while Elevation (along with suitable Lara Croft mind-state) takes me nicely round the corner on to Oxford Street.
Don't really do exercise any more, as my job means I'm basically running for nine hours a day, but I'll shortly be returning to happily sedentary life, and will have to join some sort of fit-factory. Does Jane Fonda still do fitness videos?
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