having been put off going to the gym for many years by pumping, heavy shit music (and laziness)i found a solution by digging out a walkman and my old cassette recordings of andy kershaw radio programmes from the 1990s. reggae, fiddle tunes and cajun stuff work best but i also particularly enjoy ivor cutler, leonard cohen or incredible string band while on that cross-step thing - just for the incongruous surrealism. i also found a solution to the shit music in the room - turn it down or off, whenever i have been in there, there are only ever at most 3 or 4 folk sweating away, all with their own headphones. when i have asked folk if they mind if i turn the screen music down/off - no-one has ever said no and i have often been thanked. do it once and it is as easy as owt to do every time. so now the only excuse is laziness....