Slowtwitch Forums: Triathlon Forum: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer

Bike Shops Coaches Fitters Race Calendar NEW Running Stores Stack & Reach Training Log Triathlon Clubs
		MAIN INDEX	RULES & LEGEND	LOG IN

Search for (options)

Newsletter Signup

Slowtwitch Forums: Triathlon Forum:
Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer

1 2

View All

ProudMOPer

Nov 14, 09 15:20

Post #1 of 48 (1447 views)

Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer	Can't Post

I can't get enough of Starship Troopers.

"The only good bug is a dead bug."
"This is for you new people. Everyone fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job, I'll shoot you. Do you get me?"
"I need a lieutenant. You're it until you're dead, or I find someone better"

Haha! Classics!

So, what Hollywood flick can't you get enough of while working out?

(Spinervals/Runervals, ErgVideos, Race Day videos, etc. don't count here.)

dennis

Nov 14, 09 15:23

Post #2 of 48 (1446 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Not a movie but 10.0 ride and stride is a bear

thetodd

Nov 14, 09 15:56

Post #3 of 48 (1418 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Watched Tombstone a couple times, also the new Bond "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace". If you have wifi in the house, here is a great website to watch movies for free.

http://www.watch-movies-online.tv/

___________________________________________________
People say crazy shit during sex. One time I called this girl "Mom." - Randal Graves

(This post was edited by thetodd on Nov 14, 09 15:57)

Sully

Nov 14, 09 15:59

Post #4 of 48 (1412 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Miracle
Remember the Titans

jaws20

Nov 14, 09 16:03

Post #5 of 48 (1403 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [Sully] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Good Fellas (most scorsese flicks work for me)

________________________________________________
To the extent anything above is construed negatively or offensively, it was so intended.

prattzc

Nov 14, 09 16:04

Post #6 of 48 (1401 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Anything without a plot and a lot of action. So anything with Nick Cage and/or Jason Stratham.
http://zachpratt.wordpress.com/

JohninMadisonWI

Nov 14, 09 16:30

Post #7 of 48 (1387 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

24 - all episodes in sequence.

The Unit - ditto

The Shield - ditto

Alias - ditto

jmaley

Nov 14, 09 16:33

Post #8 of 48 (1381 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

It's called Hockey Night in Canada and it just happens to correspond with my long ride each week during the winter months. An occasional show, CSI, Criminal Minds is also ok but if there is sports in then that's what I prefer.

TriMarine

Nov 14, 09 17:33

Post #9 of 48 (1345 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Seven Years in Tibet, I just keep pedaling hoping I can get away from the movie......
----------------------------------
"It's the fucking Catalina Wine Mixer"

gamebofh

Nov 14, 09 17:39

Post #10 of 48 (1336 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Watch the original Star Wars and sprint every time R2D2 is on the screen.

You'll learn to hate that little blue asshat.

-Jot

wellmanadam

Nov 14, 09 17:45

Post #11 of 48 (1325 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

I've got about 100 classic Michigan college football games going back to the 60's. All wins, of course. One amazing piece of useless trivia...since 1944 Michigan has had only two (TWO!) radio play-by-play guys...Bob Ufer and Frank Beckmann. Both great radio guys.

JohnnyEndurance

Nov 14, 09 17:49

Post #12 of 48 (1318 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

-Family guy and south park dvds are good
-For some reason No Country For Old Men ends up in there every so often (ridiculously badass movie)
-Spinervals are always an option, but I strongly prefer the later ones where you can mute that cornyass music.

Jonathan D.
USA Triathlon Coach/Adventure Extraordinaire
2010 races - ING Atlanta Mary, Sweetwater 50k, Enoree 50 Miler (maybe), NYC Mary, Atlanta Thanksgiving 1/2 Mary

IRONwolf

Nov 14, 09 18:00

Post #13 of 48 (1305 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [TriMarine] [In reply to]	Can't Post

I go to wal-mart and go to the $5 movie bins, usually there is something decent there, I just got one that has like 4 hours of Navy Seal stuff so that should be cool, look for tv series on DVD like 24, sons of anarchy or anything like that. I even sat through the first 2 seasons of friends one winter on the trainer.

if you go to world cycling productions, you can get lots of good race dvds. in fact I have an extra copy of the 2008 TDF that is like 6 discs if somebody wants to buy it for cheap.

As it turns out, what you have is less important than what you do with it...
-Bernd Heinrich, why we run

IRONwolf

Nov 14, 09 18:05

Post #14 of 48 (1298 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [IRONwolf] [In reply to]	Can't Post

thing is though, when you are doing intervals you cant really watch all that well, when Im using the power tap and I am doing like 3x20 or 3x30m those intervalls hurt bad so the tv only sort of matters.

As it turns out, what you have is less important than what you do with it...
-Bernd Heinrich, why we run

Runcasey

Nov 14, 09 18:18

Post #15 of 48 (1285 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Desiree "Fick". Oh, sorry, was that Flick or Fick-er?

Brian in MA

Nov 14, 09 18:22

Post #16 of 48 (1282 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

x2 on Tombstone and Miracle, will add Slap Shot and Braveheart. For box sets/series, Band of Brothers.

The U2 live at Red Rocks in '83 DVD is good for the music as well as the visuals.

"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler

wickedcheezit

Nov 14, 09 18:40

Post #17 of 48 (1263 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Trainer I usually intersperse Spinervals with tivo'ed television series but I love to run on the treadmill when

Blue Crush or
The Italian Job

is on.

I also like ncaa basketball games

FLA Jill

Nov 14, 09 18:48

Post #18 of 48 (1255 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [jmaley] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Don Cherry's sports coat tonight has to go into the Hall of Fame of ugly. Pink, brown, floral, so very Banff airline stewardess form 1967.

Miami Vice is a nice nostalgia piece, and they had a decent enough budget for a lot of car & boat chases. 24 is also good in the action series category. (easy to watch a number of episodes in one long slog because of the number of cliffhangers)

As a SF geek, I feel obliged to plug Babylon 5 and Farscape. Good story arcs, great dramatic moments, and at times laugh out loud funny.

skinny

Nov 14, 09 21:34

Post #19 of 48 (1186 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Band of Brothers - currently on my 4th viewing in the past couple months.
the last two Bond movies
Behind Enemy Lines
The Departed

Just moved my "office" downstairs to my "gym". Old office is becoming the second baby room. So, now I will have the option of satalite/dvd/internet. Should get me through the winter.

CaptainCanada

Nov 14, 09 21:56

Post #20 of 48 (1178 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

I watch this over and over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgC6u4tibsI

===============
Oliver Half, IMLP, IMC

jldicarlo

Nov 14, 09 22:00

Post #21 of 48 (1173 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

M*A*S*H.

I watch them over and over and over. I own all 11 seasons. :)

meganruns

Nov 15, 09 7:45

Post #22 of 48 (1097 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

I watch season recaps of television shows. Don't ask my why, but ANTM got me through a three-hour run on the 'mill once.
-----
Follow me on Twitter! megankillian
http://www.endurancemeg.com

lamneth

Nov 15, 09 8:00

Post #23 of 48 (1081 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Rock Star & Dazed and Confused. I alter effort during dialogue/songs. Makes the time go by fast.

desert dude

Nov 15, 09 9:30

Post #24 of 48 (1050 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

This winter, I'm working through the final 2 seasons of The Shield, Season 1&2 of The Family Guy and Season 2 of the Simpsons.

Been through all the original 3 Star Wars 3-4x and have found they can no longer keep me on the trainer. But maybe I'll have to sprint everytime R2D2 is on. Of course I keep watching the Princess Leia scenes where she is chained to Jabba and on the party barge.

Now that I have an xbox w/ wireless controls, I might try that as well.

Brian Stover Accelerate3 Coaching, Blog
Save at TriSports.com - use code BSTOV-S when placing your order

(This post was edited by desert dude on Nov 15, 09 9:30)

DavidK

Nov 15, 09 9:59

Post #25 of 48 (1032 views)

Re: Favorite Flick on the Treadmill / Trainer [ProudMOPer] [In reply to]	Can't Post

Cartoon Movies work great - Aladin, Lion King, Samurai Jack episodes, Toys Story, etc.

Once a winter I try to work out to Braveheart - not in one sitting though.

David K

1 2

View All