Music to workout to....
 

Been trying to get healthier and quit smoking. Not quite there yet - been cutting down drastically (2 or 3 a day from over 20 a day) and soon plan to stop all together. Been doing running and it seems to help on the periods when I feel like I want to smoke. I couldn't run very far the first time but at least running double what I did a week ago and my throat isn't getting all sore after 3 mins..... I like to do it at nightime too with headphones on and starting to really enjoy it.

Thought it would make a great thread though on what you like to workout to....

Heres what I got so far ....

50 cent - In the club
Linkin Park - Crawling
Tupac - Ghetto Gospel ft Elton John
Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
Police - Every Breath I take


So what do you guys workout to ?

Old Rocker
 

Great Job Mathew and keep it up! There is no better substitute for bad habits than integrating good ones, especially fitness.

I enjoy a wide variety of music, but when it comes to working out there is only one style.

INTENSE!!!
To match my workouts. :D

70's, 80's 90's Metal works great for me, but I mix it up.

A sample -

Alice in Chains
Judas Priest
Coldplay
Guns n Roses
U2
Bon Jovi
Smashing Pumpkins
REO Speedwagon
Rush

Crank it UP!!!

All I need is
 

"The Hills Are Alive"...But Who Cares?
 

:oops:

Guess it's time for me to change discs. Julie Andrews and The Sound of Music just doesn't cut it with this crowd of meat-eaters.

Re: "The Hills Are Alive"...But Who Cares?
 

If Julie gets your heart rate up, that's all that matters!!!

Bagger

Re: Music to workout to....
 

I listen to trailblazers on "par" with Homer....

Nirvana
Zappa
Miles
Coltrane
Louis Armstrong

DG

Great plan on your Non Smoking program Matthew. The running will definitely cause a dumping of toxins that will speed your healthy recovery but will expose you to a bit of the toxic side effects. Keep up your running and make a trip to your local health food store. A good anti oxidant and some very specific homeopathic products can make give you some relief on the cravings and the side effects of cleansing your system. Go to a locally and reputably run health food store not a chain. You usually get better educated people and certainly people who have the community at heart; it's in their interest as a citizen and it's good business.

Music is a gambit but I tend more toward Bagger's list as I just don't like a lot of the lyrics in hip hop and rap. In the gym I don't hear the words so much but on my ipod inside my ear it all comes thru loud and clear. My son introduced me to www.limewire.com where you can test out music and then choose to download it or not. I found some music that I wouldn't have automatically chosen or remembered.

I have to admit that I have run for so many years I even run to books on tape. I only turn them on when I am going fo my run so on the occassions that I might not 'feel' like getting my workout I often will want to get back to the story. This also works for movies if you are doing indoor cardio (which is always difficult for me to get thru).

Now let me be your Mom and remind you to use reflective gear even at dusk. People on cell phones and with busy schedules need a little help seeing you. I often hear people ignore this since their in a neighborhood but we find that that's were people get the most familiar and sometimes less attentive. The only two people I know who have been in running accidents both experienced them shortly after dusk and in close proximity to their own homes. Just a friendly headsup.

Vik

Fit For LIFE
 

Fit for G.O.L.F.?

How about Fit For Life?

Great stuff, Vickie!

Move Over Nestle's (The Former 'Very Best')
 

Vickie,

You are the best.

The VERY BEST.

I mean it.

I am so happy -- for myself and our members -- that you have chosen to post on our site.

We gotta get some video goin' girl!

Anything from Meatloaf. And Jimmy Castor's Bertha Butt Boogie and Say Leroy (The Creature From The Black Lagoon Is Your Father) .

By the Dashboard Light
 

Well...2 outta three ain't bad...or 1 outta two...

Bagger

Re: Old Rocker
 

nice! 8)

Thanks for the tips vickie :)

I know I need to get healthier and been recently seeing how my rising and lowering energy levels are effecting me. My blood pressure is up and down all the time and has big drops when standing up that at certain times make me feel very dizzy when rise to my feet and start see lil black spots in my vision for a second or two. My sugar levels aren't great but just stay in the range of normal.

Right now I would be your idea of a nightmare...lol. I got a major addiction to drinking coke, fanta, sprite and other soft drinks and eating bars of chocolate. I often eat an entire packet of chocolate biscuits just for dinner....lol. I never cook (even though im a wonderful cook when I want to be) other than microwave food and then use plastic cutlery and paper plates because doing dishes just doesn't seem like fun to me...lol.

Im working at it though :)

Re: "The Hills Are Alive"...But Who Cares?
 

The hills are alive with the sound of Drum and Bass...lol

Time Warp
 

I'll tell you how bad it is: I don't even know these people!

Re: Time Warp
 

For 900 years old Yoda, your pretty trendy :lol:

Trendy Tracks
 

My idea of trendy is an Edison phonograph and a cylinder of Gregorian Chants. Two minutes is all it will play, but then again, two minutes is all you can stand... :mrgreen:

Re: Trendy Tracks
 

LMAO

:mrgreen:

I really mean this...You are one funny guy yoda, one of a kind...lol

Re: Music to workout to....
 

Al DiMeola
Miles Davis
Pat Metheny Group
Jean-Luc Ponty
Return to Forever
Dire Straits
Moody Blues
Joe Jackson
Jeff Beck

Re: Old Rocker
 

There's some serious Mulletude in those bands!

Re: Old Rocker
 

Yes there is definately mulletude happening, no gorilla spandex or wife-beater garb, and no stubbletude.

I carry an HP IPAQ with a Gig of memory for about 300 MP3's and a few videos so I mix the playlists up. Not as good as an Apple IPOD for storage, but I can access this site from anywhere and make phone calls on it. I'm never far.

Bagger

Pour some technology on me!
 

Zoinks! Guess it's time for me to give up on the cassettes huh? I'm lightyears behind. . .

You guys are a hoot! I don't have the tech capability to highlight, italicize and barley enough brain power to keep up.

Thanks Yoda for your compliments and encouragement! We are all just making our lives work to the best of our ability. I am grateful to have something to contribute. Now to get the big drive.

For your benefit Matthew, I married and divorced a man primarily because of his culinary skills, hindsight being 20-20,. I learned to cook and hate mircowaves but love paper plates. I do use real cutlery, that's what dishwashers are for but find the plates too much of a space hog. Cut down on your soda's by introducing sport drinks and juice into your mix. Really! Sprite mixed with a little grapefruit makes a Fresca. I actually helped a raging alcoholic get off, or on as the case may be, the wagon by beginning to find a new association with her beverages. Water mixed with cranberry juice or a juice of your choice is another way of moving to better, healthier choices.

To 12 piece bucket: For what it's worth I hardly know what an IPod is much less an HP IPAQ,, I still don't have a CD player in my Jeep. I have to work hard to find tapes to play. My son, just turned 18 * yeeks, has suggested I get an adapter that will allow me more choices but . ..The IPod came thru an old friend and even though I have all the 'tools' I haven't figured out how to program new music as has been gloriously suggested by this thread. We're all learning . . . it never ends.

I also wanted to tell EdStraker that I saw the Moody Blues at Chastain pPrk a few years ago in their first performance with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (if I remember correctly their first live orchestra) and it was wonderful!!!! I didn't know anyone still appreciated this type of rock. I am so encouraged!

Maynard Ferguson's version of ROCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My main form of exercise is swimming----the only music I hear is typically the last song on the radio prior to hitting the pool. And it plays over and over and over in my brain. Lap after lap.... IT DRIVES ME NUTS! I need to invent an underwater sound system. You people are so lucky to workout to music. You have no concept of how maddening it is to hear a bad commercial jingle play inside your head for 60 minutes! And people wonder why I'm 1/2 nuts. Sorry for the rant. I feel better now. Dr Dvae

See, I can't even type my name correctly!!

Dr. Dave, You're a riot. This very syndrome was the inspiration for recorded music. Put your favorite music in your ear (headset, car stereo, etc.) before you hit the waters edge. And while you're at it you should choose audio that doesn't interrupt your natural stroke.

I wish you'd share some of your fitness experience with swimming. It is one of the most beneficial and the least impact oriented form of exercise and people with and without arthritis would be well served to utilize this resource when it's available. Would you share?

And finally, most people don't write their name legibaly (especially on checks)so who's to expect you to remember how to spell your name. You're off the hook. Besides you share and provide too much great information to be accountable for such a small infraction.

vik

Just thought I would update. Managing to cut down to less than 3 a day on cigarettes and still running every second day.

Im starting to be able to run about 4 times the distance I was able at the begining. Started to do some other exercises to try to get a better shape. Been doing some bench with a friend of mine to try to make my chest a lil more solid... I want it to be easier to feel that no.4 pressure...lol

I was wondering what is the best way to get myself more into a better physical condition. I want to do it mainly because I look like a skeleton with skin clingfilmed around it and would like to look a bit better but whilst im at it I might as well get fit for golf at the same time. :)

The thing is, im completely ignorant of the whole fitness thing and don't know where to even look. I often joke that I was raised on smoke and chocolate(its pretty close to reality actually)...lol

So advice would be helpful :)

Thanks

Ps - Is this a good way to do bench

Start off with my max which is about 40kg on a good day, do as many sets until I can't lift one anymore - do the same with 30, then 20 and then finish with 15 mins doing the bar ?

ah yes... the ear worm....

whenever I have this problem (which is often), my wife begins singing Joy to the World - Three Dog Night......

Vickie, just found your response to my swimming comments! Rather than hijack this thread I'll try to arrange my thoughts and put together a separate thread on swimming tonight and its value for golf as well as general health.

I usually start out with a couple warm-up sets of about 1/3 my working weight for the day. After getting loose and stretching in between those sets, I go to my working set weight. Say I'm doing 155 pounds. I'll do 4x6-8 at that weight and that's it for that exercise. Then the next week I'll either up the weight 5 pounds or try to hit the upper limit of that rep range. Once I can do 4x8, I up the weight - now I might be able to only do 4x5 at the new weight. I work up again to where I can do 4x8 then up the weight again.

You'd be better off doing 2-3 chest exercises rather than doing a ton of sets on flat bench. Do some incline bench with dumbbells, maybe some dips if you are able to. Dips are great for chest/tri development. I went from barely being able to do a couple regular bodyweight dips when I first started working out to now doing 4x8 with 55 lbs. added on. If you're looking for chest development, stick with the major compound exercises like flat bench, incline bench, and dips or decline bench with maybe an isolation exercise thrown in for variety every now and then.