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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Great Music Is Necessary To Get Results From Your Workout Routines

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By Paul Atkins

Exercising regularly every single day and each week can start to be monotonous and boring. This is especially true for those that have chosen to use DVDs as their workout routines of choice. Even though there are all kinds of new in-home workout programs the music generally seems to be old and outdated and really anything but inspirational. The music at its best is probably closer to elevator music then exercise music.

Keeping an enthusiastic and motivating playlist of your favorite music is a great way to keep pushing yourself during your exercises to the next level. What music does is get into your head and help pass time, and it can make an hour of cardio exercise feel like less than 20 minutes. If you haven't put together a playlist of great workout music and you find that your workout routines are less than consistent this might be what you need to keep them alive.

Because your playlist is about you and your workout routines it needs to be unique and tailored to motivating you to keep on exercising. It probably is not going to be something that you're going to introduce your friends too, because I'm sure some of the songs are going to be cheesy. This is okay because the point of this playlist is not to woo your friends with your incredible musical tastes but to keep you pumped up. The playlist you've created is between you, your routine, and Almighty God. So get to it and make your playlist raw, bad as hell, and downright dirty to give you the push to keep on going and exercising.

It's probably a good idea to make a few of these playlist. If you workout 4 days a week make at least four of them so that you can rotate between each one. It will probably be a good idea to go ahead and create them for the length of your workout, so if your working out for an hour make sure it's an hour in length. The worst thing in the world is to have the last 5 minutes of your workout end or repeat back to a song you already heard, that just kills that last few minutes which is when you really want to be rockin out to your favorite pump you up song.

Why not just put the Ipod on Shuffle? The ipod shuffle is a great little tool that for many is the best thing to use when they workout. A word of caution though when using the shuffle feature. I often find that when I'm working out to a non thought out playlist like the shuffle feature I find myself reaching for my ipod and skipping to another song sometimes skipping several because it lands on Bach or some downer coldplay song. There's nothing wrong with coldplay or classical music in fact I love it, but it's just not the time or place for those songs. So go ahead and make your playlist you won't regret it.

One of my favorite movies High Fidelity of all time stars John Cusack as a man who several times throughout his life makes his personal and favorite top 10 lists on various subjects. When thinking about this movie and exercising I figured it was a good idea to copy him and build my top 10 list of all-time favorite pump me up workout songs. Now you need to know that with my personal playlist I decided to include extremely eclectic music due to my eclectic music palette. So if you were to examine my playlist you would probably laugh at some of the songs or be boggled as to why on earth I was using certain music to motivate me. But remember that your playlist is yours and no one else's. The idea is it that if someone laughs at it, no big deal because it works and helps motivate you and keeps you going giving you that needed edge.

Maintaining a solid playlist of workout music that energizes and motivates you can make the difference between you failing or succeeding and will provide you what you need to push yourself and to dig deeper with your workout routines. Music brings extra levels of help that you need like added energy and more endurance. Both of which are required in order for you to pass time and keep on going. These simple benefits are important in order for you to continue to enjoy what you're doing, because if there is no enjoyment with exercising you will give up and not accomplish your goals. - 24553

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