Need some new music in the gym while grinding out PRs? Try some of these…
1.) “Hatebreed, Throwdown, Slayer or anything heavy from the hardcore or thrash metal scene.” – Nikolay Mnkonka Ryzhkov
2.) “There’s nothing like listening to Disturbed while doing HEAVY box squats.” – Shaun Davis
3.) “The Clash, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica & Led Zeppelin.” – Steve Hardek
4.) “I put on the WendlerVision playlist...” – Tim Coogan
5.) “Rage Against the Machine, Pantera and Metallica.” – Andrew McGunagle
6.) “Rob Zombie, AC/DC, Metallica, Seether, John Denver (he pisses me off big time), Credence, GnR and most importantly - Black Sabbath with Ozzy.” – Jack Kottwitz
7.) “Rage Against the Machine is great, Slayer, Pantera, Morbid Angel and Soilwork.” – Samuel Kessler
8.) “My college gym plays pop radio: Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys. I block it out by lifting until the clanking plates and ringing ears kill that horrid shit.” – Phil Johnson
9.) “Old school hip hop...somebody have Wendler and Pegg get down with EPMD, Public Enemy, Eric B and Rakim.” – Larry Brown
10.) “Eyehategod, Hatebreed, Slipknot, Nonpoint and Disturbed.” – Jim Seratt
11.) “Machinehead, Cannibal Corpse, Ice Cube - for accessory training and burnouts - and whatever drives me that day.” – Corey Smash
12.) “Everyone in the gym insists on heavy metal or heavy hip-hop, I threw them for a loop and put on Johnny Cash today...” – Mark Gleason
13.) “Old Ozzy and W.A.S.P. on the iPod right now.” – Nathan Robertson
14.) “Very heavy metal.” – Maureen Donahue Jeanson
15.) “Slayer, Lamb of God, Napalm Death and Miley Cyrus.” – Jacob Rothernberg
16.) “Anything angry, heavy, sludgy, thrashy, metal...etc!” – Chad Clark
17.) “M.O.P, Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and Metallica.” – Andrew Koontz
18.) “Hatebreed, Mudvayne, Slipknot and 50 Cent.” – Leonard Cooper
19.) “Five Finger Death Punch does the trick every time.” – Mike Horab
20.) “Lawrence Welk.” – Bobby Seewald
21.) “Bagpipes 100% of the time.” – David M. Hicks
22.) “Cannibal Corpse, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Dark Funeral, Braindrill, Blood Red Throne, Behemoth and Amon Amarth.” – Sean O’Brien
23.) “Pantera, Ozzy and Zombie.” – Chad McDaniel
24.) “High on Fire, Goatwhore and Black Flag.” – Dana Molander
25.) “Disturbed, Rob Zombie and some county once in a while along with some rap when I squat and deadlift!” – Sean Costello
26.) “Disturbed, Hatebreed, Marilyn Manson and Korn...whatever gets me insane!” – Brian Binkley
27.) “Weedeater, Unearthly Trance, Elder, Sabbath and Sepultura.” – Tom Jenkins
28.) “Children Of Bodom.” – Kevin Carlaw
29.) “Eminem - Brian Schwab style.” – Brooks Conway
30.) “Bridges of Madison County on tape.” – Rogan Phillips
31.) “Slayer, Amon Amarth, Hatebreed, Six Feet Under, Behemoth, Bloodbath, Nile, Necrophagist and Iron Monkey. It’s much better than the ‘douchebaggery’ my gym plays - Miley Cyrus, Owl City...” – Brad Austermuehle
32.) “Devil Wears Prada, Haste the Day, In Fear and Faith, Eminem, Biggie, Gwen Stacy, Bullet For My Valentine and POD.” – Dusty Alton
33.) “Hatebreed, Slipknot, Gorilla Biscuits and Ministry - Stigmata, Psalm 69.” – Tim Mcconnell
34.) “Disturbed and Sevendust are great for heavy lifting.” – Dean Griess
35.) “Lots of Man O War! but other metal and rock.” – George Underwood
36.) “Kid Rock, Bubba Sparx, Rehab, Haystak, Celldweller and 3CE.” – Ben Hoskins
37.) “Anaal Nathrakh, Metallica - Justice and prior, Gojira, Pysclon Nine, Kataklysm, Berzerker and Gorelord.” – Richard Jorgenson
38.) “Disturbed, Godsmack, Metallica, AC/DC, Rob Zombie and anything angry to get going.” – Ken Havlicek
39.) “Hardcore or heavy, heavy metal. Raised Fist and Meshuggah are current favorites.” -Ben Polke
40.) “Five Finger Death Punch!” – Paul Rogers
41.) “John Denver, James Taylor, Elton John and Rod Stewart. You know, the good s&*t .”– Brian Rauchwarter
42.) “Behemoth, Iron Monkey, Reef the Lost Cauze, Tech N9ne and Hatebreed.” – Mike Heeney
43.) “METALLICA!” – Ant Boogie
44.) Slayer, Testament, Vader and Overkill!” – John Danckwerth Jr.
45.) “Soulfly, Sepultura, Slipknot, Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Godsmack, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, metal, metal and more metal!” – Curtis Stellfox
46.) “Tool gets me ready all the time.” – Patrick Perine
47.) “As I Lay Dying and War of Ages.” – Jon Hereth
48.) Lamb of God, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin and Tool gets me pumped!” – Brad Whitworth
49.) “E-town Concrete, From Autumn to Ashes, Breaking Benjamin and As I Lay Dying.” – TJ Miller
50.) “Strapping Young Lad, Sound Garden, Devin Townsend Band, Meshuggah, The Life and Times and Down.” – Joey Waters
51.) “Not shitting anyone this: # was being played the other day when I walked in. Luckily, I have Drowning Pool, Saliva, Disturbed and Slipknot ready to go.” – Jimmy Tereyla
52.) “Rage Against the Machine.” – Greg Miller
53.) “Metallica - Master of Puppets and Rollins Band - End of Silence” – Mark Hepburn
54.) “My gym had a techno cover of Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers going and it makes me angry that they play that shit.” – Chadwick Laskey
55.) “Eluveitie, Insomnium, Kataklysm and Amon Amarth.” – Matt Smith
56.) “Johnny Cash.” – Ryan Messmer
57.) “Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Five Finger Death Punch, and anything that inspires rage and aggression.” – Paul Turchan
58.) “Leona Lewis: Bleeding Love.” – Alan LaMore Jr.
59.) “Music doesn't exist with concentration.” – Todd Swepston
60.) “I don't, but if I did, it'd probably be a whole lot of metal that I wouldn't listen to in other contexts. I've done intervals to Judas Priest tracks and wound up developing Pavlovian responses to them as a result. I don't want to have that happen with anything else.” – Jonathon Wright
61.) “Nothing. Probably because I don't have money for music.” – Benjamin Kusin
62.) “DMX!” – Rudy Sandoval
63.) “16, High on Fire, Wolves in The Throneroom and Mastodon.” – Tyler Mullins
64.) “Nile, Weedeater, Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, etc, etc.” – Ken Sanford
65.) “Slaughterhouse, AOTP, Wu-Tang, Jedi Mind Tricks, Snowgoons, and ACDC. Of course, I seem to concentrate better without music most of the time.” – Mike Donnelly
66.) “Inthismoment, In Fear and Faith, and Killswitch Engage.” – David Seiler
67.) “Elvis, Phil Collins, The Police and Billy Idol. And no song does better than Roll With the Changes by REO Speedwagon.” – Ben Kuhns
68.) “System of a Down, Faith No More, Metallica, Pantera, Rage Against the Machine, Linkin Park, Rammstein and so many more...” – Dean Alexander
69.) “Pantera, Hatebreed, Pantera, sometimes Rollins Band even works, and Pantera.” – Aaron Mehl
70.) “Maiden, High On Fire.” – Pete Prince
71.) “Ice Cube, 2Pac, DMX, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Eminem, Wu-Tang and Notorious BIG.” – Alex Crato
72.) “Korn, White Zombie and sometimes DJ Umek.” – Kyle Dunham
73.) “Hank Williams.” – Allan Allanson
74.) Rob Zombie, AC/DC, LL Cool J, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Hammer Fist and Pantera.” – Robert J. Wirtig
75.) “I can't believe no one has this band going...Black Label Society. My favorite song by Zack's Band: Phoney Smiles and Fake Hellos. Heavy! Sean Howe
76.) “Waking the Cadaver, The Berzerker, Suicide Silence, Disfiguring the Goddess, Behemoth, Arsonist's Get all the Girls, Stabwound and pretty much any grindcore, heavy death metal or stuff that is pure straightjacket.” – Dustin Montana
77.) “Disturbed, Eminem, Slipknot, Mudvayne, 50 Cent and Lil Jon.” – Joshua Lopez
78.) “Demon Hunter.” – Jb Watkins
79.) My gym plays crap music, but I don't hear anything while I work. In between sets I laugh at the crap.” – Mandy Trept
80.) “Mostly Milli Vanilli.” – Tyler Dillon
81.) “Speed metal or even just metal. There’s nothing better to set a PR to. Slayer is one of my favorites.” – Will Callahan
82.) “Rollins Band, Gallows, N.I.N. and Refused.” – Plastre Adrien
83.) “Disturbed for the win.” – Ciaran Mckane
84.) “Meshuggah.” – Alan Gurler
85.) “Volbeat now, Sevendust always and Soil to get jacked.” – Michael Nease
86.) “Electro, Psy Trance, Club Trance and Metallica.” – Lior R. Homen
87.) “Slipknot, Mudvayne, Korn and Five Finger Death Punch.” – Rene Ludwig
88.) “Celine Dion, Hanna Montana, Christina Aguilera, Jonah's Brothers or whatever makes me want to kill the singer or the whole band.” – Tristan Solo
89.) “Trapped Under Ice, Biohazard, No Warning, One Life Crew, Madball, Ringworm and INTEGRITY.” – Drew Cook
90.) “Five Finger Death Punch is my favorite right now.” – Jerimiah Hillard
91.) “Superjoint Ritual!” – Patrick Elting
92.) “Tantric, AC/DC, Metallica, Operator, 9 Inch Nails and Led Zeppelin.” – Nathan Lee Jordan
93.) “Marilyn Manson.” – Sidney G Maffett
94.) “Disturbed, Powerman 5000, Demon Hunter and the occasional herniated grunt.” – Clayton Knutsen
95.) “Metallica's St. Anger on repeat for max effort days.” – Harry Stafford Grove
96.) “Classics like: Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth. I’m all about the aggression.” – Jason Vanderpool
97.) “Lately it's been Five Finger Death Punch, Iron Maiden and Metallica.” – Brian Shaw
98.) “Iron Monkey, Slayer, Suffocation and Napalm Death.” – Brian Newport
99.) “Mostly punk with a little rap. The Falcon, The Lawrence Arms, Beastie Boys, Motorhead, The Misfits, Avail, Western Addiction, Dead To Me, Dropkick Murphy’s, Bad Religion, The Bouncing Souls, Snoop Dog and Jay-Z.” – Troy Dequaine
100.) “Slayer, Disturbed and of course Eye of the Tiger by Survivor.” – Matt Pacheco
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