What’s Michael Phelps listening to?
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If you’ve been watching the coverage of the Beijing Olympics, you may already know what swimmer Michael Phelps is eating (12,000 carb-heavy calories a day!) to keep in top racing condition. You may have stayed up late at night to watch him earn all his gold medals. But what many people are really burning to know about Phelps is: What the heck did he listen to before each race?
We all noticed that Phelps typically showed up at the Water Cube wearing a Speedo LZR Racer, maybe a tracksuit and always his MP3 player earbuds. So what was the musical mojo that got him pumped up for his gold medal wins?
The Answers community has been able to dig up a few clues through a little detective work, but nothing conclusive. It appears from the Q&A on his own web site that he was listening to Young Jeezy at the World Championships. In Athens four years ago, it was “‘Till I Collapse” by Eminem. Clearly he favours rap or hip-hop, but what exactly is the magical mix that makes Michael move?
We may never know for sure, but whatever he listens to, it’s certainly doing wonders for him … that, and the countless hours of practice, dedication and focus, of course.
Do you use music for inspiration and motivation? What songs or musical artists get you going?
Mitzi
I strongly think he listened to techno music to make him pumped up or even more likely: he listend to his country’s national anthem, to motivate him to suceed in either case it worked!
Interesting…listening to Eminem? Each to their own but I’m not sure that listening to such music necessarily is inspiring…of course, some music might be better to listen to than to be inspired by.
I could totally see him listening to something intense that makes him want to win, Something that will help him win
He listens to hip-hop, I heard it on nbc during the olympics.
He listens to both rap and hip-hop according to CBC!
OMG I love him! He listens to hip-hop. =]
eminems music is so cool
Certainly good music is motivating! Research shows similar brain activity listening to motivating music as when one is high on drugs!
For me Electronic/ Techno music works as well as anything creative and different from all the junk/ noise out there!