Workout music
Hey all,
Looks like I signed up for a trial week at Snap Fitness (expensive once it begins, but they don’t even need a credit card for the trial week).
What music (specific songs) do you like to work out to?
I like a range of tempos (from medium to fast), and lyrics that evoke determination or self-control or something. In other words, depressing music doesn’t really motivate me to go another mile or do that last rep, y’know?
Anyway, leave a comment with some of your favorite songs to work out to.
Rush! Any number of songs. Freewill and The Trees are both good, and a bunch of others.
If we’re going to say Rush songs, then definitely Red Barchetta, because that one has a good fast tempo and always gets me moving. To the point that I try not to listen to it in the car. :)
Oh, yes! That’s another of my faves!
oh man. The English Beat – Just Can’t Stop It. My all time favorite work-out CD. I also like Hot Hot Heat – Make up the breakdown. Also, the LOLA RENNT soundtrack.
Pokemon theme song
“Eye of the Tiger” is good-anything by AC/DC or Queen. I also feel that the Rush album “Counterparts” is a good one, too.
It might just be me but any of the DDR songs are pretty awesome to work out to.
EYE OF THE TIGER!
Eye of the tiger was totally on my workout mix when I last used to work out at a gym. You know… back in 2003.
I had it on cassette.
Buckethead – whatever the first track from Robots and Monsters is. It’s all about pushing yourself and full on classic Bucket Head guitar.
Buckcherry – Crazy bitch. It makes me think of a few of my ex’s and working out to make myself better so I don’t have to settle for crazy bitches anymore….you get the idea. I also have Lit Up on my work out mix.
Godsmack-I’m Doing The Best I Ever Did and Voodoo.
Kid Rock – American Bad Ass and Bawitdaba
Mc Chris – DQ Blizzard – This gets me through more hard elliptical endings then any song. Its super fast drum and Bass beat.
Mika – Big Girl You Are Beautiful, Love Today and Lollipop
MC Frontalot- Goth Girls and Porn Song. Slower, driving beats to motivate me through harder things.
AC/DC- You Shook Me All Night Long and It’s a Long Way To The Top(when you want to rock and roll).
Van Halen – Big Fat Money
Heh, DQ Blizzard is already on my list!
Robert Miles – Children
Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
Mike – Grace Kelly
Black Eyed Peas – Let’s Get it Started
Britney Spears – Stronger (Neptin Remix)
Christina Aguilera – Ain’t No Other Man
Crystal Waters – 100% Pure Love
Def Leopard – Poor Some Sugar On Me
The Donnas – Take It Off
Evanescence – Going Under
Fort Minor – Where’d You Go
Garbage – Cherry Lips (remixes of this are also go) and Only Happy When It Rains
George Michael – Too Funky
Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta
HooDoo Gurus – Come Anytime
Kenny Chesney – She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
Limp Bizkit – The End
Lincoln Park – My Way
Moby (ft Gwen Steffani) – South Side
Moecheeba – The Sea, Charango,
OK Go – Here It Goes Again
Outkast – The Way You Move
Rammstein – Ich Will
Robbie Williams – Rock DJ, Let Me Entertain You
Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground
Soup Dragons – I’m Free
Todd Rundgren – Bang on the Drum All Day. Good beat and easy to sing along with while trying to ignore pain/ struggle.
My favorite work-out song is “Babylon” by David Gray (Grey?). It’s upbeat, but still puts my spirit in a calm place, if that makes sense.
Normally, I’m pretty much OK with whatever is being played at the gym as most of it gets tuned right out during a workout anyway. When I do bring music it’s usually just for the cardio part of the work out, and then it’s usually something harder like Tool, though I have been known to throw some Ani in as well.
Tool & Ani ftw!
I work out in teh pool w/o electronic devices, but I do have my mental jukebox, which has “Halloween” by Ministry on heavy rotation.
And I remember working out to New Order’s “Blue Monday” back in the day.
The entire Prodigy “Fat of the Land” album.
Some of my favorites:
Roni Size – Dirty Beats
Sweet – Ballroom Blitz
Hilltop Hoods – The Nosebleed Section
Architecture in Helsinki – Heart it Races
Queen – Princes of the Universe
Bad Religion – American Jesus
311 – Creatures (for a while)
Flobots – The Rhythm Method
Minibosses – Contra
Optimus Rhyme – Ping Pong Song (a good version is track 11 on MC Frontalot’s Secrets from the Future album, entitled “Very Poorly Concealed Secret Track”)
I listen to the Old 97’s when I jog. No gym can contain my awesomeness.
My current favorite workout tune is “Animal I Have Become” by Three Days Grace. I also have to second nettie75’s recommendation for anything by AC/DC. That was pretty much all we ever listened to in high school power lifting and it’s hard not to get pumped up. It’s practically a Pavlovian response at this point :p
woohoo!!!
hey you!!! good for you for signing up for the trial!
I have many workout playlists on my ipod, but my favorite is definitely the playlist titled “trail run,” which I use a lot, and not just while running:)
Space Oddity-David Bowie
In The Air Tonight-Phil Collins
Drum Trip-Rusted Root
Ecstasy-Rusted Root
Head Like a Hole-NIN
Inside Out-Eve 6
Extreme Ways-Moby
We Are All Made Of Stars-Moby
American Idiot-Green Day
Jesus of Surburbia-Green Day
Give Me Novicane-Green Day
Drum Solo Wassan Pharaoun-Issam Houshan
Crawling-Linkin Park
One Step Closer-Linkin Park
Missed The Boat-Modest Mouse
Unwritten-Natasha Bedingfield
Viva la Vida-Coldplay
Amber-311
I also like listening to Sigur Ros when i’m trying to grind out a long cardio workout.
Good luck and kick freakin ass!!!
xoxo,
julie