Who says only superheroes and sitcoms have theme music? I have my own music almost every day when I pump iron. And although a lot of us feel our lives are sitcoms, you truly feel like a superhero when you\u2019re under a 300+ pound mass of iron with nothing but your wits keeping the weight from crushing your spine. I try to play the right music at the right time and here is my top ten \u201cPumptastic\u201d leg day tracks that get me feeling like a superhero.<\/p>\n
1.\u201cRunnin\u2019 With the Devil\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Van Halen.<\/b><\/p>\n
You just got to the gym after work. You\u2019re probably hungry, tired, and pissed-off at everything. Don\u2019t slack-off and get your blood pumping with some wretched cardio. Van Halen\u2019s \u201cRunnin\u2019 With the Devil\u201d is the perfect song to manifest my hatred of cardio, reminisce over how my day has been, and of course like the devil\u2019s house it burns.<\/p>\n
2.\u201cDethharmonic\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Dethklok<\/b><\/p>\n
A Harvard study found that thinking evil thoughts and clenching your fists makes you physically stronger. That being said, I highly advise gym music be evil, loud and\u2014if possible\u2014without a single decipherable word except continuous growling. \u201cDethharmonic\u201d is a natural steroid according to Harvard\u2019s study, and besides, did you really expect to get pumped listening to Iggy Azalea and all that lollipop music?<\/p>\n
3.\u201cPower\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Kanye West<\/b><\/p>\n
Kanye West doesn\u2019t seem like a guy I\u2019d ever want to hang out with or even share an elevator with, but the bastard pumps out some of the best gym music today. When I\u2019m about to start the weights with the classic deadlift and the bass comes through my headphones and West exclaims \u201cNo one man should have all that power,\u201d I swear to God I feel like that one man or more. I feel like Atlas with the sky on his shoulders; that\u2019s if the sky weighed 365 pounds, of course.<\/p>\n
4.\u201cHustlin\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Rick Ross<\/b><\/p>\n
After three sets deadlifting with Kanye, I\u2019m now open for business. Quads warmed up and callouses ripping, I sit at the leg press and quickly pump out four sets heavier than a quarter-ton, grunting like an animal with a face so ugly a blind mother couldn\u2019t love it over a telephone.<\/p>\n
5.\u201cFreak on a Leash\u201d \u00a0<\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Korn<\/b><\/p>\n
That devil\u2019s music, the stuff my grandma thought was ruining me when I was only 8-years-old, this song is an old friend. \u201cSometimes I cannot take this place\u201d is what I think when I\u2019ve pressed 630 lbs and my legs are screaming at me. I walk like a penguin to the leg extensions and pump three drop-sets. I lift all the weight the machine has to offer. Then I drop the weight for two reps until I\u2019m lifting a single plate for 24 reps. Your legs may feel like they fell off but you\u2019re a bat-out-of-hell to do it all over again. At this point you\u2019re ready to puke.<\/p>\n
6.\u201cHappiness in Slavery\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Nine Inch Nails<\/b><\/p>\n
But this isn\u2019t break time. Maintain your conditioning and when you\u2019ve completed the three drop-sets wobble to the hamstring curls and do three more drop-sets. I\u2019m lying on my belly regretting this decision. \u201cWhy am I punishing myself?\u201d I think, while my hamstrings explode. I am both slave and slave master to my own body. The slave master has no regard for a slave, success comes with pain and like the song says \u201cI have found you can find happiness in slavery.\u201d This 20-year-old dark, heavy, industrial track will speak to you clearer than you think when you become a vicious gym rat killing yourself on a Friday night at 4:37 a.m.<\/p>\n
7.\u201cIron Man\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Black Sabbath<\/b><\/p>\n
You\u2019re almost done, but the worst part is next. Pack on some plates and squat until your hamstrings touch your calves and then clench your butt and lift. Repeat this for at least three sets and pump some Black Sabbath at full volume. Your legs exhausted, sweat falling off your chin and Ozzy Osbourne gargled voice saying \u201cI Am Iron Man,\u201d setting you up for agony. \u201cHow the hell am I walking tomorrow?\u201d worries me but I\u2019m Iron Man right now and I\u2019ll give a damn about pain after I eat and sleep.<\/p>\n
8.\u201cThe Love Song\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Marilyn Manson<\/b><\/p>\n
Do you love your guns? Move the bar from behind your neck to the front and fold your elbows to keep it up. These are called \u201cfront-squats.\u201d This exercise gives you and anyone a butt like Jennifer Lopez and there is nothing wrong with that. Although there is something entirely wrong with listening to her music when you\u2019re in this position. So, more importantly, do you love your guns?<\/p>\n
9 \u201cWork\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>A$AP Ferg<\/b><\/p>\n
Squatting 100+ pounds over your body weight has got your thighs swollen in pain and walking is the last thing you want to do, so to top it all off, you are going to throw a 70 pound bar over your shoulders and lunge deep. Ferg\u2019s \u201cWork\u201d makes me feel like I want gold teeth and hell, why not? It\u2019s Friday night and your friends are drunk in Wynwood somewhere humping the American dream, but not you. You\u2019re thrashing your legs and not letting yourself leave until you\u2019ve finished the workout even though you\u2019re ready to collapse. There\u2019s work to be done.<\/p>\n
10 \u201cSmoke a Ni**a\u201d <\/b>\u2014 <\/b>Juicy J<\/b><\/p>\n
This is the victory song. The song you play when leaving the gym. This is your theme song, brother. When Juicy J says, \u201cYou think you hot as me? Hold on, you must be smoking, ni**a.\u201d You probably can\u2019t help pounding your chest to every syllable and bobbing your head like you\u2019re in music video. Don\u2019t worry, this is a normal state called the \u201cpump\u201d or a body-builder\u2019s climax and it\u2019s perfectly acceptable to act obnoxious\u2014you\u2019ve earned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who says only superheroes and sitcoms have theme music? I have my own music almost every day when I pump iron. And although a lot of us feel our lives are sitcoms, you truly feel like a superhero when you\u2019re under a 300+ pound mass of iron with nothing but your wits keeping the weight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ae"},"yoast_head":"\n