Favorite Workout Songs/Good Workout Music?

i change it up all the time. last month i had my favourite weird al parodies. this week i have billy joels greatest hits.

love this ! I'm sitting here writing down a bunch of these songs - I'm about to make an epic workout playlist when I get home! music motivates!!

This always gets the pedals pumping:

"The Distance"

Reluctantly crouched at the starting line,
Engines pumping and thumping in time.
The green light flashes, the flags go up.
Churning and burning, they yearn for the cup.
They deftly maneuver and muscle for rank,
Fuel burning fast on an empty tank.
Reckless and wild, they pour through the turns.
Their prowess is potent and secretly stearn.
As they speed through the finish, the flags go down.
The fans get up and they get out of town.
The arena is empty except for one man,
Still driving and striving as fast as he can.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up,
And long ago somebody left with the cup.
But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns.
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns.

He's going the distance.
He's going for speed.
She's all alone
In her time of need.
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse,
He's going the distance.

No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no wine,
He's haunted by something he cannot define.
Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse,
Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force.
In his mind, he's still driving, still making the grade.
She's hoping in time that her memories will fade.
Cause he's racing and pacing and plotting the course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up,
And long ago somebody left with the cup.
But he's striving and driving and hugging the turns.
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns.

Cause he's going the distance.
He's going for speed.
She's all alone
In her time of need.
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse.
He's racing and pacing and plotting the course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse.
He's going the distance.
He's going for speed.
He's going the distance.

I recently started listening to "The Reason" by Hoobastank when I work out. I just imagine that I am singing the lyrics to myself. I imagine it as sort of an apology to my body for being unhealthy all of these years and a promise that I will change. It keeps me motivated.

"I'm not a perfect person. There's many things I wish I didn't do. But I continue learning. I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go That I just want you to know I've found a reason for me To change who I used to be, A reason to start over new and the reason is you."