Summer's here.  It's time to hit the weights hard again.  I love lifting - it's so empowering.  You can push yourself to do so much; a feeling you don't get sitting behind a desk.  It clears your mind and allows you to focus on a goal, even if its only to get the next rep up.  For me to do that, I need some good music with me.  Good, hard metal or hard rock does it best.  It pisses me off so bad when I walk into a gym and they're playing gd Whitney Houston or Kanye West.  What kind of motivational music is that?  I usually make playlists on my Zen to ramp up the intensity as my workout goes along.  Here's an example of my typical adrenaline-boosting lineup.

Warm-Up
 1. Fallout Boy - Thnks fr th Mmrs
 2. Breaking Benjamin - Polyamorous
Lift
 3. A Perfect Circle - Judith
 4. Children of Bodom - Kissing the Shadows
 5. Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
 6. Soil - Halo
 7. Stone Sour - Made of Scars
 8. Children of Bodom - Silent Night, Bodom Night
 9. Atreyu - Becoming the Bull
10. Dry Kill Logic - Paper Tiger
11. Hoobastank - Out of Control
Bike/Run(Cardio)
12. All That Remains - Not Alone
13. Megadeth - Mechanix (a.k.a. Metallica - The Four Horsemen)
14. Rage Against the Machine - Guerrilla Radio
15. Hatebreed - Perseverance
Cooldown
16. Smile Empty Soul - Bottom of a Bottle
17. Thrice - All That's Left

I've got seven or eight lists I shuffle through, but they're all similar.  Even if you don't like real heavy music, try something like this when you're lifting.  Most of the time the music just ends up fading into part of my subconscious while I'm throwing the iron around, but it still gets me going.

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