{"id":1262,"date":"2013-10-08T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2013-10-07T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:09:31","slug":"abby-what-to-listen-to-at-the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/10\/08\/abby-what-to-listen-to-at-the-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby: What to Listen to at the Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/comblog\/files\/2013\/03\/AbbyCecchine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1089\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"AbbyCecchine\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2013\/03\/AbbyCecchine-150x150.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2013\/03\/AbbyCecchine-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2013\/03\/AbbyCecchine-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2013\/03\/AbbyCecchine.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I have contracted Music ADD. I just cannot settle on one playlist, artist or a single song even to listen to all the way through.\u00a0 I used to be able to listen to music while I read for class or studied for a test, but lately I get so distracted thinking, \u201cIs this the right song to be listening to right now?\u201d or, \u201cI wonder what song is next on my playlist?\u201d and eventually before the song is over I have to change the it.\u00a0 Then I lose my place in my book and have to re-read entire paragraphs. It\u2019s seriously a problem. And now it has spilled over into my workout playlists. This is even more of a problem because you don\u2019t want to be that girl on the elliptical glued to her phone.\u00a0 It is also physically impossible to change a song while you are bobbing up and down on a treadmill.\u00a0 But I have found a solution (for what to listen to at the gym, at least)- Podcasts!<\/p>\n<p>I like listening to podcasts for many reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I tend to get bored while working out so having something more interesting to listen to helps keep my mind on something other than how badly my legs (arms, feet etc.) hurt.<\/li>\n<li>I feel like I am learning something.\u00a0 Even if that something is the history of skinny jeans.<\/li>\n<li>Podcasts are a good break for your mind, but still make me feel like I am being productive. For me, going from reading something very academic like how the transcendentalist thinkers of the 1840\u2019s helped reinvent the advocacy tradition of Journalism to listening to Top 40 pop songs can be very jarring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are a few of my favorites to listen to:<\/p>\n<p>Garrison Keillor\u2019s The Writer\u2019s Almanac | <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/apm-garrison-keillors-writers\/id136642066?mt=2\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/apm-garrison-keillors-writers\/id136642066?mt=2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TED Talks | <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tedtalks-audio\/id160904630\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tedtalks-audio\/id160904630<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How Stuff Work\u2019s Stuff Mom Never Told You | <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stuff-mom-never-told-you\/id304531053\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stuff-mom-never-told-you\/id304531053<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Star Talk | <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/startalk-radio\/id325404506\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/startalk-radio\/id325404506<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have contracted Music ADD. I just cannot settle on one playlist, artist or a single song even to listen to all the way through.\u00a0 I used to be able to listen to music while I read for class or studied for a test, but lately I get so distracted thinking, \u201cIs this the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/10\/08\/abby-what-to-listen-to-at-the-gym\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abby: What to Listen to at the Gym<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44302,3892,257],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}