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Lifting to the Music

Lifetime Fitness has long been known for a questionable music playlist (Britney Spears and Savage Garden … at the gym?), but today they proved all of that bad music was just a warm up for one unbelievably inappropriate song.

While everyone was straining, grunting, and pounding through workouts, moving weights, running treadmills, and pulling those weird rubber bands in every-which direction, a song drifted over to my ears as I curled dumbells on an incline bench: Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven.”

“Have I gone insane?” I asked myself, struggling through rep 4 … this music was the anti-caffeine, the ultimate non sequitur, almost as if I was trying to break dance to a Dvorak symphony. “Hey Jake, can I get a spot?” asked a guy behind me. I felt like I was watching a movie with this music as the soundtrack and this was the last time the guy would ever ask his friend for a spot, that he was doomed to die in a catastrophic event very soon … that’s what listening to that song does to a person.

Note to self: mandatory for future workouts: alternative music sources.

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Mykala

Tell me again what are iPods for…

Alexander Micek

iPods are the music source of the future … now! The bottom line is, I will be using mine for working out, and it will be amazing.

NIIIIIIIIIILLLLS

That was a good post. This is the first I have seen from tumbledry for nearly a month, so it was like a breath of fresh air, a ray of sunshine on a dark day, and also like a moment of clarity in a confused world. Thank you for that. I will now go ahead and reiterate what Mykala has already said: God Bless iPods. Use them, and use them often.

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