While it can be great to lift to your own music, quite often we are using our headphones as a crutch.
“Hold on a minute, I need the right song”
We can be and should be able to lift to whatever music is there be it the latest of pop (even ads, and yes I’ve heard them) at your local commercial gym chain,or Snoop Doggy Who Doggy What Doggy Dog at the gym you lift at.
The radio shouldn’t matter in the least, nor should your music.
Ideal is either silence or your own music (depending upon mood), but you should be able to always lift just fine without either.
At the old commercial gym I went to I’d trained myself to lift without music and to ignore the pop radio.
I’ve fallen out of this habit over the past year.
Lately I’ve been allowing my music to distract me . Picking the song, waiting for the right moment to go, fumbling with the wire (an issue in olys+deadlifts and weighted dips/chins)
The main use of headphones often is to simply get in the way.
Get used to no or non-ideal music.
Having our own is often a training​ crutch just like any of the supportive gear we use (wraps,straps, belts,etc). It’s entirely possible to not need them (music or the aforementioned) one iota and still get it just fine.
Get your mind right and just lift.
You know that somewhere out there a dude is getting jacked in far less comfortable circumstance than you without access to a boom box or ipod, or often even equipment.
Don’t be so obsessed with your gym music​. Focus on the work.
I’m not sure how long I’m going to hold myself to this, but for at least the monrh of June I will not bring my iPod (or mp3 player) to the gym.
There’s a month challenge right there. No bringing music to the gym. (I’m still allowing myself to switch the boom box there from Kendrick Lamar back to Rob Zombie, lol. We can’t be listening to that skinny jean hip hop shit,but really even that doesn’t matter)
IPod and mp3 player will stay home.
-J