Hi, I’m Matt, and welcome to Steady Beats. If you like to walk for a better life, and also like Dire Straits’ “Walk of Life,” you just might like this newsletter. My friend, co-worker, and good-natured occasional antagonist Charlotte Greysolle stopped listening to music when she works out
I'm with Charlotte on this one though without judgment for anyone that enjoys music. My runs are sans music. Experiencing the run itself is part of my enjoyment. For treadmill runs i would listen to audio books because it was so tedious. Ultimately both the listening and treadmill went away and I only run outdoors now.
I used to say I couldn’t possibly workout or run without music. Then I started listening to podcasts. Now I listen to nothing most of the time.
Was kind of a natural progression for me… just started enjoying listening to nature and/or my thoughts while working out or running. But the odd time I do throw music on I appreciate it 100x more than when I used to have to play more intense, louder music each workout as my baseline increased continually.
I'm with Charlotte on this one though without judgment for anyone that enjoys music. My runs are sans music. Experiencing the run itself is part of my enjoyment. For treadmill runs i would listen to audio books because it was so tedious. Ultimately both the listening and treadmill went away and I only run outdoors now.
I used to say I couldn’t possibly workout or run without music. Then I started listening to podcasts. Now I listen to nothing most of the time.
Was kind of a natural progression for me… just started enjoying listening to nature and/or my thoughts while working out or running. But the odd time I do throw music on I appreciate it 100x more than when I used to have to play more intense, louder music each workout as my baseline increased continually.
Workouts have increasingly become one of the times I listen to podcasts
“Henry Winkler would voice these ads today.”
😂 😂 😂