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Good exercise music please? MP3 suggestions?

20 years ago

hello everyone,

I was wondering what music would be good to work out to. What are your favorite songs to listen to while doing your exercises?

Also do any of you have any suggestions about your favorite type of MP3 players?

Thank you ,

Don_na_na

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socks
20 years ago
If you walk, marching band music is great. You just have to walk to the beat! No choice!
heather_on
20 years ago
Good question. I'd like to know too. "Flashdance" and "Gloria" are two that come to mind that I like. Also "Let's get physical" is good. I also like Neil Diamond's "America".

I have a SanDisk MP3 player. Not one with a large capacity, it only holds about 60 songs (4 hours worth) but it does quite nicely. The quality of the music is good and the earphones are comfortable. It is very easy to load and delete songs.....copy and paste technique. My twins' ipod is a little more complicated to use. She has a better one with a large memory card and wanted to put her songs in directories. It took awhile for she and her DH to figure it out.
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I used Roxio. I didn't want to pay their price for it but found it to be easy to use it did a great job. It would be a little harder, but the free program Audacity could be used to record music from any source that is played through your computer. After recording it with Audacity and exporting it as a .wav or MP3 file you could burn it to CD using Windows Media Player or other CD burning software. sanantoniorose, you could use audacity to record music from Utube as you play it, but I don't recommend doing so with copyrighted music.
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ï»¿The music you buy from Rhapsody does not disappear. You can burn it to CD, and copy and play it any where you want. Of course the music you rented on "Rhapsody To Go" will disappear when you quit the service. In fact you have to sign onto Rhapsody with you player connected to your computer at least once a month or the "music to go" will stop playing until you connect, and than it will play again. . This is no problem to me. Much of the music I listen to I would not want to own, but how do I know unless I got a chance to listen to it and live with for a while. If you are into any kind of music other than whatÂs played over, and over on the radio you might enjoy being able to carry around a virtual record super market such as Rhapsody to go. As a fan of Jazz I have purchased many albums over the years based solely on liner notes, and jacket art, and considering the number of used records and CDÂs for sale, IÂm guessing IÂm not the only one. I have no problem with dumping stuff I canÂt get into, and paying for what I like, fill my player up and start over again. I have purchased more music in the last few months than I have in the past year thanks to Rhapsody to go. Napster was the first to offer this kind of subscription service, and I think Yahoo does also. I just picked one, and it works for me.
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Get an iPOD or whatever MPS you find easier to operate. Download all music in a "lossless" format, as opposed to a "lossy" format. FLAC and a number ofothers are lossless and can give you audio through your stereo system as good as cd's. The lower the kps you use, the more information goes missing.The downside to "lossless" downloadingis--it fills up your hard drive far faster. I just download many I'[mnot currently not playing much (if at all) to my computer. You can always recover them. Shure and Etymotic also make excellent ear buds--usually the better the pricier. Greg
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Aesop
20 years ago
I think it depends on what you do. If I'm doing weights, I don't like to listen to any music as I'm focusing on lifting. However, I find cardio boring so I like to either watch t.v. or listen to music. This isn't pure music, but for cardio, I find that using one of the Cardio Coach mp3s really speeds the time away. I have a Sanyo MP3 player, which is nice in that it's expandable (has a 512MB flash, plus a spot for a SD (I think) card. However, I am lusting after an IPOD shuffle, so I can download from itunes.
fila297
19 years ago
Check this out - www.championo2cool.com - they've got playlists set up by professional trainers, and you can search on lists submitted by members for different excercise types. Would ya'll mind downloading your playlists there since you have lots of good ideas! Thanks.
laurenk88_pa
19 years ago
the Best of Janet Jackson works for me....her ab's are an inspiration
wrendora
19 years ago
Believe it or not. I love to listen to enya while working out on the treadmill and bike. because i can close my eyes (if i hold on) and zone out. And sorta like meditate and walk at the sametime. And when i open my eyes i see 10 minutes has gone by. While circut training i listen to up up-beat music, like Rihanna, Fergy, or stuff like that
foosacub
19 years ago
I like techno and metal... if I'm listening to music, I'm usually trying to force myself to keep a steady tempo.

My mp3 player isn't my first choice for recreational use, but for the gym, it's pretty good. It's about 1"x2", maybe 1/3" thick, and came with a comfortable armband that I'll actually use. It's a Creative Zen player, 1G (about $85) - which is plenty for me, I keep all my files on my h/d and mix them up when I feel the need.
booradley
19 years ago
Benny Goodman. I like to walk to it and the music puts a smile on my face.
dglex626
19 years ago
oh I'm more hardcore as far as my music.
I have rage against the machine, white zombie, white stripes (7 nation army really gets me moving), some jane's addiction, supernova, a little bit of pantara etc...
gypsyjanelowe
19 years ago
try scorpions, queen, or themes from rocky, the movie, they're hilarious and make you feel you're in some wacky movie
awm03
19 years ago
I've rediscovered Canned Heat. They were a sixties "boogie band." Even on those evenings when I'm too tired to exercise, I can listen to Canned Heat and do 45 minutes on the elliptical just because their music's so much fun to work out to.

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