Workout Music

Music isn't always a "must have" for my workouts, but it often helps. Like most people older than 25 my tastes consist of what I liked in high school plus a new album here and there. This post was actually inspired by my purchasing The Pretty Reckless's album "Going to Hell" which I think will do me well when lifting.

I tend to prefer heavy music in the gym, but some stuff I like elsewhere (e.g. in the car) doesn't often do it for me. An example of this is Guns 'n' Roses "Appetite for Destruction". I love this album and it was one of the first cassettes (kids, ask your parents...what a cassette is), but for some reason it doesn't work for me in the gym. I have no clue why as "Welcome to the Jungle" is, or was, nearly a warm-up anthem during football pregame warm-ups.

There are a number of albums I keep coming back to though to give me that extra bump in energy. Here are a few:

• "Greatest Fits", Ministry's greatest hits album. Particularly the string of tracks: "So What", "NWO", "Just One Fix" and "Jesus Built my Hotrod"
• Limp Bizkit's "Significant Other"
• Sepultura, "Under a Pale Grey Sky", Live in London
• Sepultura, "Beneath the Remains"
• Pantera, "Live, 101 Proof"
• White Zombie, "Astro Creep 2000"
• Slayer, "Reign in Blood"
• Linkin Park, "Minutes to Midnight"
• Stone Sour, "Come Whatever(May)"
• Cage the Elephant

I enjoy live and rough track recordings too and sometimes the atmosphere in the gym along with my thougts are enough to keep me going.