Thread: What pumps you up?

I see the music thread is making its latest run.

I don't listen to music while training. On weekend sessions I devote my morning before training to relaxing with coffee and music and reading about BB'ing, diet, fitness, etc. That gets me really pumped up. However, once I get to the gym I want to take in the atmosphere. The sounds of iron hitting iron and people gasping for breath and grunting really inspires me.

The highlight of my lifting week is squats. I love them. Can't get enough of them. And, there is NOTHING like being at the bottom of a below-parellle squat, and being level with the safety bars, and seeing them out of your peripheral as you rise above them without needing them. It's such a triumphant feeling. The stress from a 3 RM squat on your final rep on the last set and you go down slowly and you can feel the tension building and then you reverse directions and it feels like gravity just increased twenty-fold and your teeth clench, your face srunches, your veins pump up, and you let out those gasps of pure agony yet pleasure.

And, then you take the plates off, pick up your training log and water bottle, and head over to the pullup bar to do some weighted chins. There's no feeling in the world like that.

Yup! Music annoys me. I like to focus on my lifts. Not some yelping koyote.

Originally Posted by rockhardly

Yup! Music annoys me. I like to focus on my lifts. Not some yelping koyote.

What the hell kind of music do you listen to?

Originally Posted by Phineas

I see the music thread is making its latest run.

I don't listen to music while training. On weekend sessions I devote my morning before training to relaxing with coffee and music and reading about BB'ing, diet, fitness, etc. That gets me really pumped up. However, once I get to the gym I want to take in the atmosphere. The sounds of iron hitting iron and people gasping for breath and grunting really inspires me.

The highlight of my lifting week is squats. I love them. Can't get enough of them. And, there is NOTHING like being at the bottom of a below-parellle squat, and being level with the safety bars, and seeing them out of your peripheral as you rise above them without needing them. It's such a triumphant feeling. The stress from a 3 RM squat on your final rep on the last set and you go down slowly and you can feel the tension building and then you reverse directions and it feels like gravity just increased twenty-fold and your teeth clench, your face srunches, your veins pump up, and you let out those gasps of pure agony yet pleasure.

And, then you take the plates off, pick up your training log and water bottle, and head over to the pullup bar to do some weighted chins. There's no feeling in the world like that.

damn that just pumped me up...... im going to do squats

Originally Posted by CORUM

damn that just pumped me up...... im going to do squats

Lucky. I don't get to squat until Saturday

Jump Squats tomorrow, but there just not the same thing. *sigh

Originally Posted by scout200

Studies have shown that combining music and exercise gives your body a boost. What jams pump you up when you're working out?

-Scout

I go to a gym that always has music cranking which is nothing but a concentration breaker. Earplugs are a good thing however watching the hot women in spandex work out does get a pump going!!

for squats and deads... really allows me to go heavy

I like no music as well. Helps me focus, and I do like the background sound of the gym.

Originally Posted by rockhardly

Yup! Music annoys me. I like to focus on my lifts. Not some yelping koyote.

This.

But I finally bought an mp3 player. It has a fine layer of dust on it.

And if I'm at the gym and Enter Sandman or an AC/DC tune starts playing?

No music here either. Trying to set a new PB each week, is my driving force!

Its also rare that I listen to music while I lift. I try stay focused when I lift and music distracts me. But I do listen to music if I am running or jogging but thats rare.

Originally Posted by rockhardly

Yup! Music annoys me. I like to focus on my lifts. Not some yelping koyote.

LOL!

-Scout

Originally Posted by Phineas

I see the music thread is making its latest run.

I don't listen to music while training. On weekend sessions I devote my morning before training to relaxing with coffee and music and reading about BB'ing, diet, fitness, etc. That gets me really pumped up. However, once I get to the gym I want to take in the atmosphere. The sounds of iron hitting iron and people gasping for breath and grunting really inspires me.

The highlight of my lifting week is squats. I love them. Can't get enough of them. And, there is NOTHING like being at the bottom of a below-parellle squat, and being level with the safety bars, and seeing them out of your peripheral as you rise above them without needing them. It's such a triumphant feeling. The stress from a 3 RM squat on your final rep on the last set and you go down slowly and you can feel the tension building and then you reverse directions and it feels like gravity just increased twenty-fold and your teeth clench, your face srunches, your veins pump up, and you let out those gasps of pure agony yet pleasure.

And, then you take the plates off, pick up your training log and water bottle, and head over to the pullup bar to do some weighted chins. There's no feeling in the world like that.

I think I just came a little....

For me...caffeine and my favorite loud music. Everything I do is to music. I can't really workout without it.

^^^^^^^^ i agree peace bro. imo

Originally Posted by Phineas

What the hell kind of music do you listen to?

I can live without it. But the yelping koyote comparison is how music sounds to me when I am trying to focus on my lifts, especially squats. It aggrevates the shit outta me.

I find once again music gets me going, but the thing that gets me pumped up the most is when my training partner is reping out more weight, I might go to the gym felling a little bit flat and by the time I have finished I am acting like it was my first ever workout.

Music and proper breathing. Truth is, the music is just to block out of background noise, and my brain hardly hears the music.

Originally Posted by Merkaba

For me...caffeine and my favorite loud music. Everything I do is to music. I can't really workout without it.

See, we can relate... Everything I do is to caffeine! lol

-Scout

Originally Posted by Merkaba

For me...caffeine and my favorite loud music. Everything I do is to music. I can't really workout without it.

I love this combination, though I do it before my workout. Combing coffee and/or green tea with rock and metal is a recipe for the jimmy legs.

German industrial metal, like Rammstein.

The fag stuff playing through the speakers at the gym is a complete distraction. Might work for the chest & bicep only crowd but not for me.

What pumps me up? Hot chicks.

I don't care how many reps, sets or exercises I've done, if a hot chick walks buy, I can do double what I've done so far and seem indifferent doing it.

Nothing motivates a workout like a hot chick.

Originally Posted by DOMS

What pumps me up? Hot chicks.

I don't care how many reps, sets or exercises I've done, if a hot chick walks buy, I can do double what I've done so far and seem indifferent doing it.

Nothing motivates a workout like a hot chick.

I think you've found yourself in a new niche market. The latest sensation in weight lifting supplements, "female gym escorts".

Thankfully i work at my gym, so i made a playlist on the gym PC and put it on whenever i train. I love the perks. This is my current playlist:

Slayer - Angel of Death
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Rammstein - Buck Dich
Pantera - Domination
Nickelback - Something in Your Mouth
Pagan's Mind - Alien Kamikaze
Disturbed - Indestructible
Motorhead - Life's a Bitch
Dethklok - Thunderhorse
Metallica - Jump in the Fire
Lordi - Dynamite Tonight
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Chimaira - Power Trip
Iron Maiden - The Clansman
Fear Factory - Slave Labor
Cannibal Corpse - Decency Defied
Extreme - Play With Me
Dream Theater - The Mirror
Bloodbath - Devouring the Feeble
Andrew WK - I Get Wet
Lamb of God - Redneck
Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
System of a Down - Revenga
Kamelot - Forever
Meshuggah - Bleed
Testament - Down For Life
Satyricon - The Wolfpack
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
Amon Amarth - Valhalla Awaits Me
Hatebreed - Perseverance
Carcass - Heartwork
Manowar - The Sons of Odin
Black Label Society - Destruction Overdrive
Strapping Young Lad - Exciter
Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
Grand Magus - Kingslayer
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Drowning Pool - Bodies

Hearing these songs in a public gym is amazing. Makes me laugh every time.

black label society , metallica, slayer and pantera l

Lately I've had my iPod on NOT shuffled - so I've got massive blocks of Metallica and GnR with some Kid Rock and a couple different mixes of Du Hast... but its been Ronnie James Dio getting me thru.

That and a good arm day will get a massive bicep pump!

Originally Posted by sassy69

Lately I've had my iPod on NOT shuffled - so I've got massive blocks of Metallica and GnR with some Kid Rock and a couple different mixes of Du Hast... but its been Ronnie James Dio getting me thru.

That and a good arm day will get a massive bicep pump!

Hey sassy69,

I liked how you mentioned that you have your iPod on - not shuffled. It seems to me, whenever my iPod is on shuffle, I don't like the "arrangement" of the songs lol!

-Scout

When its time for bulking and going over 800 in the deads, I blare this out of my headphones...

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