Music the Motivator?
For some, music can detract them from honing in their body during a workout. I tend to be one of those characters. I prefer to hear my breathing, the crying of the muscles, and the beads of sweat smacking against the rubber flooring during a workout. After spending a majority of my youth inside of a kickboxing studio, you tend to get used to the gritty aspects of training. But it’s good to point out that music can be a great motivator at times.
Take for instance, when your gym plays crappy music that you have to put up with. More specifically, when your gym plays crappy music exessively loud that you have to put up with. It can put a damper on your training…unless, you hapkido it and use it to your advantage. Now, don’t get me wrong, working out with anger can lead to an uncoodinated injury, but a little anger can go a long way to boosting you past your average threshold.
I felt this way on Monday. A trainer in our gym likes to blast old-school rock music during his early A.M. shift. It annoys everyone. I could fire the guy, but that would be stupid. Instead, I listen to his vaguely entertaining music and it pisses me off…enough so to blast me through a current squat max of 205lbs at a bodyweight of 160lbs. My max last week was 145lbs since I’m just getting back into the swing of things from an injury. I’m not sure if it was the music, if I wasn’t pushing myself hard enough the last two weeks, or a surge of testosterone rushed into my bloodstream that caused me to lift this weight for solid reps, but I did it. I could have probably done this weight last week, but this week, it was easy. I think it was the music!
