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    Music that gets your moving

    Posts: 117 Member
    edited February 23 in Motivation and Support
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    I was hoping to get some music suggestions for my work outs. Music can be so motivational!
    I am open to a wide range of music, as long as it's upbeat and gets me moving!

    So what are some of your favorites?

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    • Posts: 1,585 Member
      In for the input!
    • Posts: 1,340 Member
      Just a few of many:

      Tom Petty: I won't back down
      Angela Michael (Kim Possible soundtrack): I'm Ready
      Elton John: The B!tch is Back
      John Fogerty - Put Me in Coach
      Aretha Franklin & Eurythmics - Sisters are doing it for themselves
      Stevie Wonder - I Wish
    • Posts: 62 Member
      A few that I like are:

      Let's Go - Calvin Harris featuring Ne-Yo
      Scream - Usher
      More - Usher
      Firework - Katy Perry
      Scream and Shout - Britney Spears and Will I Am

      anything loud with a fast beat - very different than my Lite Rock stations in the car....
    • Posts: 291 Member
      I like rock mostly.
      Halestorm (explicit though - so if you're sensitive to bad words, not for you),
      Metallica,
      Imagine Dragons,
      Fallout Boy,
      Hedley,
      Ellie Goulding,
      Aerosmith,
      Evanescence,
      Mari Mai (I'm French so I listen to lots of French stuff)
      And I agree with ALL will.i.am stuff...
    • Posts: 320 Member
      nicki minaj - massive attack, boys ft cassy
      jason derulo - talk dirty to me
      beyonce - drunk in love, girls, flawless, upgrade you
      ?? - gas pedal
      ?? - rack city
    • Posts: 291 Member
      A few that I like are:

      Let's Go - Calvin Harris featuring Ne-Yo
      Scream - Usher
      More - Usher
      Firework - Katy Perry
      Scream and Shout - Britney Spears and Will I Am

      anything loud with a fast beat - very different than my Lite Rock stations in the car....

      More is one of my fave songs...get me pumped!!
    • Posts: 214 Member
      A few from my current playlist:

      Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
      Take It Off - The Donnas
      Don't Stop - Foster the People
      Jerk It Out - Caesars
      F*** You - Cee Lo Green
    • Posts: 117 Member
      Awesome! Thank you so much for the suggestions :smile: Now I'm looking forward to my evening workout even more!
    • Posts: 41 Member
      Anything by Calvin Harris x
    • Posts: 826 Member
      For exercising to, almost anything upbeat and especially songs with motivational lyrics, those get me moving better.
    • Posts: 14 Member
      Lately I've been listening to hatebreed during my more intense workouts. It's metal but the perseverance album is very motivational, especially their title song "perseverance". Awesome stuff
    • Posts: 15
      I like that this thread's musical variety isn't just metal...so many of the other threads are I love upbeat techno or latin flavor music that makes you want to dance or bust ur *kitten* on the eliptical!!!

      Calvin Harris- Summer
      Britney Spears- Work B*tch
      Eminem- Lose Yourself
      Kat DeLuna- Whine Up
    • Posts: 15
      YES! Also Capital Cities are good

      Origami
    • Posts: 95 Member
      Black Stone Cherry - (anything by them)
      Linkin Park - (anything...)
      The Pretty Reckless - (Going to Hell)
      3 Doors Down - (earlier albums - any songs)
      Royal Blood - Little Monster

      Pretty much any rock / metal I guess.

      Also loving "The Motivational Man" on youtube / sound cloud. He does 45ish minute mixes across loads of genres. Well worth checking out for non-stop mixes.

      Also - the House mix workout on Spotify. Some awesome beats on there to pound the trainers too.
    • Posts: 74 Member
      Work by Iggy Azalea, if you're into her. I put it on repeat! hahaha!
    • Posts: 7 Member
      Try Workout Mixes by Steady130 at www.steadymixes.com. I got tired of trying to constantly update my workout playlists and now these mixes are the only things I listen to when working out. They're sorted by genre or tempo, depending on what you want!
    • Posts: 191
      There's an app that will give you music suggestions based on your heart rate and rate of speed, I don't have it on me but google it!...One song that always gets me moving is "Shake Senora" by Pitbull!
    • Posts: 117 Member
      Loving all these great ideas!
      :love:
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