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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Music : The Key to a Good Lift, or Pointless Background Noise?

For me I’ve often found that I didn’t really place too much merit in the theory that music can motivate herculean efforts in the gym.  Don’t get me wrong, I feel that music is a complete necessity.  Anyone who’s stepped into a facility resembling superman’s fortress of solitude will tell you a quiet gym is about as intense as a hello kitty backpack.  But that’s it, nothing more. My formula was: silence=excruciating misery, music=gotta be there, genre be damned.   As long as there was something distracting me from the various guttural moans and grunts I figured game on, Spice Girls away. 

Is this what you like to listen to before a max effort deadlift?
 
Our clientele is diverse and the gym has had a wide variety of musical styling’s bumping through the walls.  Little Wayne’s profound lyricism, Lamb of Gods driving double bass and Kelly Clarkson’s sparking octave bending wail (thanks Kyle), we have pretty much heard it all.  But I have been looking around recently and noticing some people respond tremendously well to a certain track, hammering out weights they may or may not have other wise attained.  I myself reconnected with a tremendous “smash your head through a wall” album- Rage Against The Machine’s self titled album, and saw a bit of the mad dog come out in me. 
 
So what is it? Hogwash? Valid? What say you iron heads, does music dictate how you are going to perform or will Air Supply’s greatest hits carry you though a max effort lower body day?  Let the debate “rage” away!                  
 
-Brian Matthews
 

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