Music as Motivation At The Gym?

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Searching for workout inspiration online is a big deal, music being one very popular motivational tool. Music might get you going but it doesn’t produce results other than maybe helping burn a few more calories. If burning calories is your top priority, then have at it.

However most people who join a gym are looking to change their body—its shape, firmness, attractiveness, health, flexibility. To change these things, dedication to proper form while executing proven exercises is required. Music has nothing to do with proper form, but rather for most it serves as a distraction just to get them through what they have decided is an unpleasant experience—their workout.

Looking around at my gym the other night I was heartened to see two outstanding physical specimens, something rare at my local gym. What they and I had in common is we were the only people present out of thirty-five or more members who were not glued to our phone. Both of these guys were focused completely on their workout and the results of their focus were self-evident.

"You cannot possibly be bored

with your workout once

you see positive results

from your workout."

Interacting primarily with one’s phone at the gym, of all inappropriate places, is the norm nowadays. Why do people need this distraction? It flies in the face of common sense. They join a gym, pay their money, allot the time, get dressed, show up, then sit immobile on a machine or bench for 5 minutes or more at a stretch between each uninspired set, scrolling, swiping, and adjusting their music playlist. They accomplish little to nothing with regards to the essential purpose and goals of gym-going.

Hearing people complain about being bored with their workout when they have made no effort to learn the basics of exercise itself is as baffling as it is hilarious. You cannot possibly be bored with your workout once you see positive results from your workout. Boredom comes from seeing no results, and that’s entirely one's own fault. The basics of proper form and proven exercises are right there on our phones, but people are doing everything imaginable other than learning how to work out. Not one of the many who I see sitting idle on a Hammer Strength machine is ever watching a video showing them how to properly use that machine. In the hundreds of times I have glanced at what people are doing on their phones at the gym, only once have I seen anyone watching an instructional workout video.

People use their phones as a distraction from the fact they are not achieving results, rather than utilizing it as a ready tool to attain results.