Feel the Beethoven?!

**It is Fake** · Posted On: 2/03/2012 10:58am

I love Elevator music. I tend to block out any music when training.

**RWaggs** · Posted On: 2/03/2012 11:48am

I wish either of my gyms would play classical while training. However, I think I would want to lean more towards the epic for that purpose (think Atterberg No 3 or Shostakovich No 10)

**Azatdawn** · Posted On: 2/03/2012 3:22pm

I wish I could actually listen to (so-called) classical music while working out at home. However, due to having to analyze a lot of that stuff I can't really hear it anymore without analyzing it.

Sounds stupid, I know.

EDIT: I really like when someone plays German hip hop during thaiboxing training. It's great to make fun of, so I'm not as obstinate.

**realjanuary** · Posted On: 2/03/2012 5:19pm

If it's my choice I don't put on any music, but in places I've trained / train it there's been a variety:
one Eminem album on repeat ( which made me develop a kind of Pavlovian response to Stan);
silence in a few places;
classical music station on the radio;
i-pod mix on shuffle including 80's rock and cheese as well as the infamous Bodies.

**Prone** · Posted On: 2/03/2012 5:29pm

Originally Posted by Azatdawn

I wish I could actually listen to (so-called) classical music while working out at home. However, due to having to analyze a lot of that stuff I can't really hear it anymore without analyzing it.

Sounds stupid, I know.

EDIT: I really like when someone plays German hip hop during thaiboxing training. It's great to make fun of, so I'm not as obstinate.

Ah, yeah I feel you there. Some kid gangsta wanna-be crap in German (Bushido, Farid Bang etc.) and I feel like laughing. Dunno if that would be good for training though ;)

**Azatdawn** · Posted On: 2/03/2012 7:00pm

Originally Posted by Prone

Ah, yeah I feel you there. Some kid gangsta wanna-be crap in German (Bushido, Farid Bang etc.) and I feel like laughing. Dunno if that would be good for training though ;)

Well, what can I say. I'm at my best when I can make fun of things.

Related to this thread, I was just thinking that I'd love to beat someone up to the Moonlight Sonata.

**Tzadqiel** · Posted On: 2/03/2012 7:03pm

Danzig and Queens of the Stone Age seem to flow into my weight lifting, although I left shuffle on one day and wound up with Mozart's Requiem Mass.. It was surprising how well it worked for it. Running I still wind up calling cadence in my head or out loud.

**TheMightyMcClaw** · Posted On: 2/03/2012 7:24pm

Our gym seems to play mostly hip-hop, punk, and 3rd wave ska. I've come to quite enjoy it.

**Smackjack** · Posted On: 2/04/2012 1:55pm

I played in a metal band for 5 years, church band for 2, and jazz for 3. And I'm now learning to mix and dj. I play dub step in my gym because one time I played notorious biggie and everyone was more laughing at the lyrics than working out. I play dub step, I get motivated and girls like it too hell everyone does. Btw metal core is dying (pig squealing since 2003)(studying music theory since 2004).