Haha nice point, Im just into being approachable and having a yarn. I get the job done but at the same time if the lads are at the gym you gotta have a chin wag

An article on the web lists loud music in the gym and gym germs as health hazards. With regard to gym germs I never use my towel to wipe down the equipment but I use the gym's own disposable paper wipeouts as my towel is doused in disinfectant before I use it.

Ok, I get not having an iPod. I have an mp3 (somewhere) that I never really used much (just don't see what all the hype is about). But, how exactly do you have a car with no CD player?? That's standard equipment on even the cheapest cars. Or is your car early 90s maybe?


Anyway, my gym does the ClubCom thing (programmable music and music vids). They set it according to the majority of the people that come during certain time frames (like lighter music in the mornings when the old people come).

I do find it funny that I'm in Texas, and my gym never plays country (standard music most anywhere in Texas) - yet some of you in CA say your gym does.

Ehm...i know cars made in 1990 and they still have CD players..weird. But yea, I don't have an ipod either, i just use my sisters. But about the music thing, thats why its great working out at home. Just turn up the radio when ever you want listening to w/e music you like.

Music and optional clothing is the only plus side of lifting at home. Can't drop, can't stay intense, can't transition from exercise to exercise with ease (if you have one bar)

As for the country music thing...I live in an agricultural city. Nuff said.

On the subject of music while the music in the gym is either too loud or not to my taste I should get one of those mp3 players with an armband and then the gym would not be too bad on my ears. I might even compete with the guys who hit the gym daily and workout for 2 or 3 hours.

In my pursuit to be a lean mean fighting machine, though the huge guys I'm taking about are Hulk-wannabes.

so what? Maybe they wanna look like the hulk. What if I told you that I go to the gym to get hyooge, and you're just a lean mean fighting machine wannabe?

Karky I would agree with you for the first time.

We have a pretty cool place for training. We play whatever music we want, as loud as we want.

If people do not like it, they can get out.

I hear you guys about the "neutral" commercial gym music though. That had that a gym I used to work at. It pretty much made me want to be an axe murderer.

If music is played at all, it should be set to a volume where an mp3 player can easily block it out. I have to turn mine nearly all the way up to hear my music, and I really tihnk it's ruining my hearing.

That, and I realise people have different tastes, but who the hell works out to Britney Spears. I for one, cannot perform heavy deadlifts if I hear britney spears voice, or ashley simpson's voice.

Music needs to be turned down, if people want to hear music, they'd have mp3 players.

I once had a pretty intense session where I got really pissed at the "detrimental" music...How ironic.

I think soft rock is way worse than pop music. WAY worse. Ie, The Eagles' "Take It Easy" when trying to max. Wtf is that ****?

I love all types of music(country, rap, rock, classic rock, pop - no techno) as long as it has a beat, upbeat, where you freaking just want to dance your arse off to it.
Can't help but to kind of bop to it in between sets.
I wish they would have an aerobic class where they play disco dancing music, no techno crap. I would just stay in there for an hour and dance a way.

Put this type of music on and it just wants to make me run faster on the treadmill. The louder the better, just helps me to block out conversations and the crap going on around me and in my own head. Just gets me in the mood.

Yes, that is the way my ipod is loaded w/ that type of music, from Prince, Garth Brooks, Stones, Billy Joel, Barry White, Usher, Blige, Vaugh brothers (shoot really bad at artists names, but some song "got her white boots on)

Thank God for Ipods. The only thing bad about them is sometimes I catch myself about to belt out a note, slightly embarassing.

How is the situation in your gym concerning music? In mine they have mostly behaved since I sent an email to the gym managers.

My gym has no music and I dont take my iPod. However I wouldnt mind some rap or metal during a good session. Lifting is really the only time I like really heavy metal.