what is your "pump it up" music of choice?

erintgaffaney

Hey! Curious to know what music keeps you out in myfitnesspal.com-land motivated as you work out? Currently, for me, it's the dance-worthy tunes of Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey, Missy Elliot, Nicki Minaj, Robin Thicke, Black Eyed Peas and a few old-school Britney Spears that keep me steady on the elliptical.

What on your iPod or other mp3 player makes you want to move your body and sweat it out?

Candyrot89

fighting music lol....Lets go by lil john ....Fighter by Christina Aguilara. Zombie by Natalia Kills..Lil Kim....Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson....and rock music..like New Breed by Oh, Sleeper....


AND I LOVE the song Beautiful Dangerous with fergie and slash.

shopchik12

Anything techno! Also- Rihanna, Ke$sha, Katy Perry, and Beyonce are all great! My current favorite workout song is "It's Alright" by Pit Bull. This song has a really great latin beat. Gets you pumped!

llaurena

I listen to Linkin Park, Taproot, 30 second to Mars, Chevelle, Papa Roach, Britney Spears new album cause it is definitely good pump up music.

I change it up but mostly Rock music.

CallejaFairey

i listen to anything and everything pretty much, from disco to 80's pop to rock to dance...whatever has the right beat for what i am doing. although usually, if i am using my ipod, i just set it to random. i should really look at setting up some playlists that are beat specific...lol

teachparents

it sounds really old and it is.. but roy orbinson.. "mean woman blues" it rocks!!! great pick me up!

newbeautifulme

Pandora station named Black Eyed Peas

KeepingChocolate

This is a timely question because I was thinking the other day how I need to put together a playlist so I'm not constantly having to manually look for the songs I enjoy working out to. I've got Press Play (NY2LA), Beckah Shae (Life; Here in This Moment), Charmaine (Run), David Crowder Band (O Happiness), Newsboys, and Tobymac.

Chedda21

My favorite music is almost the same as you, I like listening to Beyonce, Rhianna, Lil Wayne, 50 cent, Tech N9ne, and anything that reminds me of why I want to work out in the first place, and that is to feel good about myself again. I also like old school music like Zapp and Roger etc.

bluk30

Rock of Ages. Loud.


(yes, I am THAT cliche' )

taso42_DELETED

Trance for cardo. Metal for lifting.

Karleyyy

Dub FX- Soothe Your Pain, Love Someone, Love Me or Not, Flow, etc...just Dub FX in general. Eminem(Not Afraid), Green Day (Know Your Enemy, Horseshoes and Handgrenades, Walking Contradiction, Hitchin' a Ride, St. Jimmy, Redundant, Waiting, Warning....okay EVERYTHING) , Seether (Remedy, Fake It), Hollywood Undead (Everywhere I Go, Undead, *****es, Young), Nelly (Country Grammar, Airforce Ones), Tim McGraw (Where the Green Grass Grows, Indian Outlaw), Three Days Grace (Riot), Alanis Morisette (I'm a *****, You Oughta Know, One Hand In My Pocket), Cloud Cult (Washed Your Car), Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (Anything from the album Harvest); KiD CuDi.... Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull- but that might just be me.

Also, Linkin Park's album "Hybrid Theory." I AM NOT KIDDING. Every song makes me want to run for an hour.

kartunes

Anything from the TOP 40 usually gets me pumped up or any songs that I know every word to! Or rap usually gets me pumped up like Drake, Lupe Fiasco or J. Cole.

skos1172

QOTSA

mamagooskie

anything by rihanna, born this way by lady gaga, paralyzer by finger eleven, I like pink raise your glass, oh and so many more. I'm just drawing a blank right now.

jclji4

KANYE WEST...AND OLD DANCE MUSIC FROM MY COLLEGE DAYS.

ILuvLifehouse

My new obsession is Enrique Iglesias especially "Tonight" and "I Like It" that makes me want to stop walking and start running but I wouldn't last very long. Another that gets me fired up is Nickelback and of course Lifehouse.

gagejennifer

Id say any of Bon Jovi's upbeat songs......

kbeatty1015

Any Black-Eyed Peas song... that instantly gets me running.

JNiday

For lifting weights, I usually stick to metal, grind, punk, and the various sub-genres of each. Anything with good heavy riffs or a good atmosphere keeps me going. Recently, I've been playing these bands quite a bit: Insect Warfare, Bolt Thrower, Municipal Waste, Wormrot, Champion, Wisdom in Chains, Bracewar, Have Heart, Weekend Nachos, Battery, Celtic Frost, Wulfgar, and Minor Threat.

For cardio, pretty much anything goes. I tend to keep the playlist a bit lighter than the one I use for lifting. The usual bands that pop up (besides some of those in the above list) are: Primordial, Tenhi, Cloud Cult, Sonic Boom Six, Streetlight Manifesto, Valravn and Dead Prez.

tssa

I have bunch of songs on my nano. Everything ranging from Drake, Kanye , Jay Z, and Nick Minaj to Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Pantera and Deftones. On my "WorkoutMix" alone, there's like 200 songs on there.

Right now the songs that gets me going are off of the Suckerpunch original soundtrack. ***SideNote: Movie was kinda lame, but soundtrack is AWESOME*** There's 2 songs on on there called "Army of Me" by Bjork (Yes, Bjork) and a remix of Queen's "I Want It All". You should check them out....

Sometimes, I want to just mellow out while I"m on the treadmill. I have my Telepopmusik, Fleet Foxes, Portishead, and Fiest for those times.

pilipok73

Right now on my iPod I have:
Lady Gaga
Hurts
Evanescence
City Lounge: Berlin & London....

erintgaffaney

Rock of Ages, as in the musical?

AngieGassett

Almost anything Basement Jaxx (Make Me Sweat, She's No Good, What's a Girl Gotta Do?, Red Alert, etc.), Amanda Blank (Make It Take It, Something Bigger, Something Better), Girl Talk (Oh No, Get It Get It), The Cataracs (Bass Down Low, Club Love), Ok Go (White Knuckles), The Kills (Sour Cherry)...I like these songs best because they're not played on the radio as much.

Of course, I still have some Top 40 favorites, too Anything by Usher (Hot Tottie, OMG, DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love), Enrique (Tonight, I Like It), Gaga (Teeth, Startstruck), the new J Lo/Pitbull On the Floor song, and...regretfully, Ke$ha's Blow.