Listening While Lifting

[Beefster]

I put this in the training form because it is indirectly tied to training......and this is my favorite forum.

With the recent talk of what music people lift to, and the fact that my gym will only tune in the middle-of-the-road radio station, what hardware do you use to listen to music while lifting? IPod? CD Player? How do you manage the player, wires, headphones, etc. while lifting? It just seems like it would always be in the way. I do see people in my gym who attach players to lifting belts, but those are the ones who put their belt on the minute they walk into the gym and don't take it off until they walk out.

The nicely finished basement of my next house will hopefully contain a bench, squat rack, chin and dip bars, and plenty of bars and free weights. Oh yea, and a modest stereo system which I can play whatever I want, as loud as I want.

Guess I am a little frustrated listening to Seline Dion while squatting and deadlifting! HELP!

[Grizzly]

I used to listen to CD"s in the gym, but it always got in the way. Now I just deal with whatever is on.

[hendrixsolo]

get an mp3 player, and if it's just for lifting just get any small cheap one you can find (in case you smash it). There are so many out there, the one I have is small enough to clip to my shirt, and with earbud head phones it never gets in the way.

[ricknash]

i use my ipod, just stick it in teh pocket, but teh case that cllips to my shorts would be bette cuz wen i set up for dumbell press or anything when the weight on my legs before i lift i sumtimes hit my ipod lol. then i just run teh headphones from my pocket/shorts under my shirt to my ears. voila. no wires to get tangled etc.

[Girth]

Originally Posted by Beefster

Oh yea, and a modest stereo system which I can play whatever I want, as loud as I want.

Guess I am a little frustrated listening to Seline Dion while squatting and deadlifting! HELP!

Skip the player and save your money for a not so modest stereo system. Put it into the speakers...they can never be good enough.

Focus on the lift and you'll forget the music is on. There are times when I can't hear for a minute or so after a set of squats or deads.

[bulldog5.0]

Originally Posted by hendrixsolo

get an mp3 player, and if it's just for lifting just get any small cheap one you can find (in case you smash it). There are so many out there, the one I have is small enough to clip to my shirt, and with earbud head phones it never gets in the way.

Totally agree. I broke a 20g iPOD and a $200 5g mp3 player at the gym. Not fun. SO this time I bought an iriver 512mb little guy w/ an arm band for like $60 at wal-mart. It's light enough that I can overhead press w/out any noticable imbalance, I can power clean w/ it on no problem, and it holds more songs than I could play while at the gym.

I'm the type that can't STAND to lift w/out music of my choice playing. Keeps me focused and keeps people from approaching me

[kingmetal]

I feel your pain. If its not Celine Dion its funky old classic rock- I need metal for motivation!
I have a CD player and found a strechy waist strap that holds it all together. The ear phone cord I tuck into the strap and its not in the way. For rows and things Im pressing to my gut I flip the strap to my back.
Ipod is the way to go- but color me paranoid- bustin' a $300 Ipod at the gym is just lame when you can drop $30 on a CD player or $60 on a dinky Mp3 player and still have the music you wanna hear.

[Beefster]

Thanks for all the input. I will investigate the $60 mp3 player.

As a side note, I am currently away on business (Detroit) and visited a local Powerhouse gym for my workouts this week. Overall not what I expected, but just adequate. Not sure I like the TV's everywhere playing "Powerhouse TV" music.

Thanks again for the input on music hardware.

[Girth]

Ah Detroit, how I don't miss those days. I did a stint up there with my last company. And yes, you can call it a stint because it does oddly seem like a prison.

[Beefster]

Originally Posted by Girth

Ah Detroit, how I don't miss those days. I did a stint up there with my last company. And yes, you can call it a stint because it does oddly seem like a prison.

I am up in Troy, as opposed to Detroit Metro. Not too bad....though traffic and construction is a pain! Oh yea, and those "Michigan Left Turns".