Where do you Get It On? I’m always interested to know how our listeners listen. Going by your texts and e-mails, most of you are either in the car or in the kitchen making the tea.
Jim in Nairn, e-mailed me to say that he listens to the show in the gym. “ You cannae hang about on a cross trainer when you lot are blasting out things like Heatwave, Ballroom Blitz and Status Quo!”
Sounds like good fun Jim, but the wide ranging music mix on Get It On must make for a pretty varied workout. One minute you’d be on pounding out the miles on the treadmill listening to Lust For Life, the next you’d be flat on your back doing gentle stretches to Nat King Cole.
Paula Radcliffe has published a list of the songs she listens to when she wants to clock up the miles. It includes Robbie Williams, Shania Twain, James Blunt and Britney Spears. Don’t know if it makes me want to run a marathon, but an hour spent with Britney and co. would make me want to run off a cliff!
I “workout” to a playlist called Get It On Weird Stuff which covers anything from The Pixies to Peter, Paul and Mary. It’s a collection of the most eclectic stuff we get asked for on the show and is brilliant for taking my mind off the job in hand.
I try to get to the gym after the show and if it all goes well I can be packing my bag at seven o’ clock and pumping my biceps by half past.
I am not blessed with what they call ‘ripped abs’ so it’s always a struggle for me. And why so many mirrors at the gym??? I caught sight of myself last night and it was a sobering vision. I have finally woken up to the fact that dressing like an American college football player does not mean I have a body like an American college football player.
Still, I might not have the best body on the gym, but I have got the most impressive playlist.