Friday, 4 March 2011

Music to my Ears!

Forget plugging your earphones in to listen to the TV while you slowly plod along on the treadmill. You wont achieve anything.
You need to concentrate and focus on your workout to get into shape.
Create a playlist on your ipod that obviously you enjoy, but it needs to be something that will get you warmed up, in the mood and to then keep you pushing!
Just before any sport loud, up beat music can pump you up where as soft music with calm pre-race nerves for example.
James Cracknell, who rowed to glory and into the record books at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, said that listening to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers' album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" was an integral part of his pre-race preparation. The Olympic super-heavyweight champion Audley Harrison listens to Japanese Classical Music before a fight to calm his nerves, but after his performance against David Haye maybe he needs to re evaluate his choice.
When running you should listen to a fast paced music. House or Techno music is around 120-150 beats per minute BPM which is a good indication that your heart rate will be at a working level if your stride is at a similar pace.
Listenting to Drum and Bass 170+BPM would be great for HIT training (High Intensity Training)
This training is where you run for a short explosive burst for 60 seconds then at a controlled pace for 90 seconds.
While pushing weights Hip-Hop, Rock or Pop music is very effective.
The driving guitars in a number of rock songs give you a little aggression to help push through those last few repetitions during you sets.
During your warm down Coldplay's "Parachutes" is nice and relaxing to wind your levels down before stretching where nice chill out music is needed.

Check out some of Ibiza's Resident DJ Mixes for some workout tunes

RUNNING http://www.myspace.com/dazzla
RUNNING http://www.myspace.com/issienixon
STRETCHING http://www.myspace.com/steenthottrup
WORKOUT http://www.jomillsmusic.com/

Other Music
Seether "Breakdown"
Shinedown "Fly from the Inside"
Three Days Grace "Animal I Have Become"
Jay Z "Change Clothes"
Xzibit "Paperazzi"
Creed "One Last Breath"
Alter Bridge "Blackbird"
Dr Dre "Stll Dre"
The Dialated Peoples "The Platform"
Fashawn "Stars"
Goldie "Inner City Life"
Total Science "Squash"
Various Artist Ibiza Chillout
Starsailor "Faith, Hope Love"
Nirvana "Dive"
D-Bridge "True Romance"

Please leave you favourite tracks in our comments box below and we can put them on our playlist at the gym!

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