# Most Important Strength Training Question- Music Choice?
**URL:** https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750
**Category:** Miscellaneous
**Created:** [August 13, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750 "2019-08-13T19:34:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Bassett](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Bassett)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/1 "2019-08-13T19:34:20Z")
I see a lot of questions on this forum about programming, exercise selection, and general 'What Do"s but as we all know the most important factor in your strength gainzzz is your music selection. Ill go first
Favorite lifting songs/bands:
1. The Messenger- Thrice ( for those 1@8s)
2. Africa (cover)- Quietdrive
3. A Cancer Uncontained- Dayseeker
So BBM forum readers, what do you listen to?
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### Author:  [@llaffin](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/llaffin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/2 "2019-08-13T19:43:59Z")
DOOM (2016) soundtrack when I want an @9 to become an @8
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### Author:  [@ChrisZ](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/ChrisZ)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/3 "2019-08-14T22:46:29Z")
Messuggah
Lamb of God
Tool
Primus
Mastadon
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### Author:  [@Pat\_Hughes](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Pat_Hughes)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/4 "2019-08-15T07:45:34Z")
Slipknot’s new album is surprisingly good given their last offering.
Anything fast/heavy really. Some in my current rotation:
Pantera
Death
Fit for an Autopsy
Psycroptic
Opeth
Killswitch Engage
Leprous
The list goes on…
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### Author:  [@Serack](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Serack)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/5 "2019-08-15T11:55:44Z")
For PR attempts I really love Nonpoint’s Orgullo
For regular training, whatever’s on the PA (poppy shit)
Jordan and the RTS crew discuss how high levels of psychological training arousal has a CNS fatigue cost. I believe for Jordan it was the Santa Fe Q&A. For RTS there’s [this video](https://articles.reactivetrainingsystems.com/2017/08/01/wrong-but-useful-centralperipheral-models/)
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### Author:  [@jimmy02](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/jimmy02)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/6 "2019-08-15T13:21:12Z")
I just hit randomize on my favorites list on Google music.
So Motorhead, Danzig, Girlschool, Venom, ACDC, Chuck Berry, ZZ Top, Bolt Thrower.
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### Author:  [@Adam\_a](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Adam_a)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/7 "2019-08-15T16:54:04Z")
Seems to be a lack of Slayer here.
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### Author:  [@Rubendanger](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Rubendanger)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/8 "2019-08-15T19:13:28Z")
Knocked Loose
Great American Ghost
Unearth
Metallica
Deftones
Electric Wizard
Kill the Kong
Born of Osiris
Alice in Chains
Run the Jewels
A$AP Rocky
Ace Hood
Tupac
Ice Cube
Kool Keith
Del tha Funkee Homosapien
etc…
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### Author:  [@neandrewthal](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/neandrewthal)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/9 "2019-08-15T21:38:48Z")
> [@llaffin](#):
>
> DOOM (2016) soundtrack when I want an @9 to become an @8
I approve of this message.
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### Author:  [@Dave\_E](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Dave_E)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/10 "2019-08-19T00:24:39Z")
Normally thick, riffy, doomy, sludgy stuff like Yob, Dopelord, Meth Drinker, etc.
Dont mind a little ‘death industrial’ performance art occasionally either. I like to keep the vibe positive.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGXFt7Ujw0&t=268s)
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### Author:  [@Stratiron](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Stratiron)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/11 "2019-08-19T01:23:35Z")
Soundgarden, Rage, 50 cent, biggy, Alice in Chains, Clutch, Anthrax, Sugartooth and The Captain and Tenille for PR’s
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### Author:  [@GoWolfpack](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/GoWolfpack)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/12 "2019-08-19T22:39:52Z")
The Amazon music 5 finger death punch playlist for getting hyped. Podcasts for when I’m just chilling.
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### Author:  [@DkMetz](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/DkMetz)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/13 "2019-08-19T22:56:12Z")
My playlist is usually:
Lamb Of God,
Metallica,
Gojira,
Meshuggah,
Megadeth,
Ministry,
Death.
Now that Tool is on Spotify I have been listening to them at the beginning of my training sessions.
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### Author:  [@gmorf33](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/gmorf33)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/14 "2019-08-20T15:35:21Z")
I’m partial to the usual metal suspects, plus a few others like Rage Against the Machine, for the routine listening. If i need some extra hype i break out some shonen anime soundtrack like Dragon Ball Super tracks for the Jiren fight or similar…
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### Author:  [@MitchellCole](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/MitchellCole)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/15 "2019-08-22T16:04:51Z")
No joke…George Strait.
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### Author:  [@TimeLord](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/TimeLord)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/16 "2019-08-22T21:18:22Z")
During work sets, I go either metal (black/death/grind along the lines of At the Gates, Trap Them, Black Breath, Rise and Fall) or hyped up hip-hop like Run the Jewels. Podcasts during warm-ups and rest periods. FWIW my lifting metal playlist is public on Spotify 🙂 “ARE’s Lifting Metal Playlist”
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### Author:  [@Cole](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Cole)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/17 "2019-08-30T12:26:58Z")
avenged sevenfold, volbeat, metallica, disturbed.
OR
bob segar, grateful dead, collective soul, dave matthews
depends on the mood…im either laid back or aggressive
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### Author:  [@Millzners](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Millzners)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/most-important-strength-training-question-music-choice/6750/18 "2019-09-07T12:06:07Z")
I often wonder if the level of preparatory arousal should be noted in my logs. Does anyone do this? I have been working to reduce the level of preparatory arousal on average to reduce training stress and have found it to be beneficial. I like listening to Tool, Rage, and NIN to train, but the music can have a spontaneous effect of hyping me up and may cause irregularities week to week.