Workout Music -

admiral · Nov 16, 2016

I listen to some shit when I'm working out. My gym playlist is borderline retarded. What do other people think is good for exercising?

Golly · Nov 16, 2016

I personally love jogging with cast recordings to musicals. The dance numbers interspersed with ballads are pretty great for encouraging fartlek training.

Rap Scallion · Nov 19, 2016

I like running to slow tempo stuff, helps me focus on keeping my heart rate down. The Crypt of the NecroDancer soundtrack is fun. Devo is cool too.

Henry Bemis · Dec 1, 2016

Golly said:
I personally love jogging with cast recordings to musicals. The dance numbers interspersed with ballads are pretty great for encouraging fartlek training.

It's brief and in an irregular meter, but the theme to Sunset Blvd makes for especially good jogging music.

FemalePresident · Dec 1, 2016

Golly said:
I personally love jogging with cast recordings to musicals. The dance numbers interspersed with ballads are pretty great for encouraging fartlek training.

I have to try this!

I usually listen to Daft Punk while working out. Not very original, but I think it's motivational.

Guardian G.I. · Dec 1, 2016

In the gym I frequent, the trainers set the music, and it's usually some generic house music podcasts or bullshit American alternative rock from the mid-2000s (one of the trainer girls is really into this genre apparently). There was the time when a DJ from some nearby club played his sets as a promotion, and it was either some drum and bass or gabber. MylarBalloonFan would have loved him.

Personally, the best kinds of music for working out for me are either techno stuff like The Prodigy:

Or, oddly enough, trance music like the tracks from Armin Van Buuren's ASoT podcasts. It puts me in the zone quite easily, even though my dad can't stand it.