Preferred MP3 players for the gym?

[Muse]

Originally posted by: darkdiablo
i dont listen to music when i workout. when u listen to music, it makes more of ur blood rush up to your brain when it should be rushing to ur muscles, which isnt good.

At my gym you either listen to your own music or you listen to theirs. I got real tired of listening to theirs. Besides that, my earbuds excel at blocking out external noise, which has two benefits:

1. Often plates fall in plate-stacked machines and the sound is so loud it hurts my ears. My Etymotic earbuds reduce that noise to where I can tolerate it.

2. I don't have to hear distracting or insipid conversations.

There's one CD I listened to over 200 times in the course of a year because it energized me.