Transcript: Music and Movement: Why I Can't Work Out in Silence
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Ashley introduces the episode's topic — how important music is to her personally — and reflects on realizing its significance only after doing workouts without it during recent travels.
I don't know about you guys, but for me, music is life. What's up, my movers and shakers? Famous Ashton Grant here. Welcome to More Movement, Please, the podcast where I hope to inspire you to move your body more. Today, I want to talk about how important to me music is. Because y'all, it is a playlist that can drag me through no matter what. It's one of those things that... I didn't really realize just how important it was until I had to do a couple workouts where there was no music. And music moves me, y 'all.
Like, it's just one of those things that when I hear music, especially good music, I'm able to get through workouts so much easier than I am when there's not music playing. And I got a really good example, a really good taste of this during my recent travels. There have been a few times where I've been traveling lately. And I was trying to do exercises in the hotel room or I was doing exercises, you know, to and from the locations like destinations and things like that. We would stop to do, we'd stop to let the dogs out or we'd stop to, you know, get a snack or get gas or whatever. And during those times, I was trying to add in movement. So I would, you know, do squats or jumping jacks or something, whatever it was. It was interesting to me how much harder everything felt because there wasn't music playing. And it's nuts to say that because it seems like, well, it's the same movement. No, it's really not. And here's
Ashley describes how music transports her mentally during workouts, helping her forget pain and push through reps, and praises her YMCA instructor Rhonda's eclectic playlist as a prime example.
why. When I am listening to music while I am doing my workouts, it's like I'm transported somewhere else. I'm able to focus so much more on the music that. I'm able to kind of forget about the pain for a minute, especially when it's a song I like. And I think that's one of the reasons that I've been saying that I love the classes that my instructor at the YMCA has so much. This girl, Rhonda Good. My God, your playlist is one of the best playlists I've ever heard in my whole life. It's very eclectic. She has, you know, she's got rock. She's got rap.
She's got hip hop. She's got, you know, Latin. She's got all kinds of music in her playlist. And it's so good. And the reason I love it so much is because like, especially when it's a song I know, I especially in those moments that I'm getting hurt or or I'm in pain, I'll just start like listening to the lyrics that much more. And whenever I do, I forget about just how much it hurts. I don't know if you guys have ever experienced this, but it's just one of those things that like if I'm hearing really good music, I feel like I can pump harder. I can I can do the reps more intentionally or I can. get through that moment where I'm just like, yeah, I got this. And I've noticed that it happens around me too. Like there was a girl that I saw recently.
I won't name names, I promise. So this is not a shame thing. I swear it. It is more impression, impressiveness. Like I was impressed by this girl. She was struggling with a move and then a really good song came on. And whenever it came on, I noticed her tone changed completely. Like her whole body just like. shifted and she was working out harder than I had seen before and it was like she got excited and it lit her up and she was able to do the moves so well and I'm sure it still hurt like hell but you know what when you have a good piece of music on it is just amazing how you get so much better of a workout and so if you are not working out with music I want you to start find yourself a really good playlist that just rocks your world And I think you'll find that you're going to enjoy your workout so much better. It will just feel better. There's just something so magical about it. I think that's part of the reason I love
Ashley shares an observation of a woman at her class who was struggling with a move until a good song came on and visibly shifted her whole energy and performance.
Zumba so much is because most of the songs there, they like inspire you to move. And there are some songs that I'll hear and I'm just like, yeah, I'm like ready to go. Let's pump me up. Let's go. And it's just it's one of those things where if I had the choice between music or not music while working out, I will choose music all day, every day and twice on Sunday. Because it's that important. Like hearing really good music, it's like it changes something in your brainwaves and you're in, you just, like I said, it transports me to another place. So I want you to start looking for music that you like, something that just gets you jazzed and gets you in the mood to move. Because I think you'll find that if you do that, you're going to move more. And that's what the whole name of the game is, right? Move your body more. Onwards and upwards, my friends. Have you worked out today?