Workout Music

GTOgirl1969
GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
edited September 18 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm looking to make a new playlist to use during my next workout. I'm open to suggestions, from all genres of music. I want to shake it up a little...the same songs time after time get boring. What are your favorite workout songs?

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  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    I'm looking to make a new playlist to use during my next workout. I'm open to suggestions, from all genres of music. I want to shake it up a little...the same songs time after time get boring. What are your favorite workout songs?
  • yoginimary
    yoginimary Posts: 6,788 Member
    I like "angry white man" music for my weights workout: NIN, System of a Down, Dead Kennedys, etc. Similar alternative for cardio but with a little more melody, some 80s & 90s as well: Oingo Boingo, Green Day, The Pogues.
  • paralyzer--finger eleven (driving)
    rock the casbah--the clash (who doesn't love the clash?)
    crazy--seal (can be hypnotic)
    don't stop (til you get enough)--michael jackson (up tempo, cheezy fun)
    ain't that a kick in the head--dean martin (weird, i know...but fun)
    bombs over baghdad--outkast (this one can kick your butt on the treadmill if you keep the beat!)
    fuego--the cheetah girls (i know i know! it's embarassing to put on the list...but it's a fun beat)
    are you gonna be my girl--jet (this one's hot)
    caught out there---kelis (this one's a cheatin' man hatin' song...so it works for me)
    are you gonna go my way or american woman--lenny kravitz (lenny...'nuf said)
    mambo number five--lou bega (so dorky, but so fun)
    makes me wonder--maroon five (good stuff)
    lapdance--N.E.R.D (smarty rap)
    unwritten--natasha bettingfield (girly...maybe?)
    when did your heart go missing--rooney (this one's sort of eighties rock-ish...love it!)
    bring 'em out--TI (good stuff)
    switch--will smith (aggressive beat and fun)


    If I didn't have my music...literally, the boredom of indoor cardio work would kill me. These are some good ones that I like...up tempo, easy to run to and so on.
  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    Christa...the "bombs over baghdad"...great song for when you really want to haul butt on the elliptical:smile:
  • Helawat
    Helawat Posts: 605 Member
    I think Timbaland's Shock Value, Louis XIV, Libertines, Shakira, and some Amy Winehouse are great workout music.
  • wiesk1
    wiesk1 Posts: 26
    I like goofy/rockish music....lately ive been listening to Cobra Starship, love Guilty Pleasure and City is at War!! Also, a lot of the old taking back sunday stuff, like your so last summer and 180 by summer. ooo and head automatica....love at speed of a yellow bullet and absolutely anything by motion city soundtrack. Their new album is even if it kills me, but their other album commit this to memory is really good too!
  • SoupNazi
    SoupNazi Posts: 4,229 Member
    Here's some I listen to....don't laugh.....

    Pat Benetar - All Fired Up
    Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
    Don Henley - Get Over It
    Hawthorne Heights- Pens and Needles or ANYTHING BY THEM (they are the best)
    AFI - Miss Murder
    The Killers - When You Were Young AND Somebody Told Me
    Hall and Oates - You Make My Dream Come True
    Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round
    Karate Kid Sndtrk - Your'e The Best Around:laugh:
    Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
    Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance AND Thanks for the Memories
    All American Rejects - Move Along
    Bob Seger - Against the Wind
    Heart - Barracuda
    John Cougar Mellancamp - The Walls Come Tumblin' Down
    AC/DC - Back In Black or Thunderstruck
    Nine Inch Nails - Black as a Hole
    Breaking Benjamin - Just Like You, Breakdown, and Diary of Jane
    Taking Back Sunday - (like em all)
    Evanescence- (like em all)

    I'm gonna stop there before I embarrass myself further.:blushing:
  • lotusfromthemud
    lotusfromthemud Posts: 5,335 Member
    I like "angry white man" music for my weights workout: NIN, System of a Down, Dead Kennedys, etc. Similar alternative for cardio but with a little more melody, some 80s & 90s as well: Oingo Boingo, Green Day, The Pogues.

    Hey, did you steal my iPod?

    I also have an embarrassing amount of what I call "guilty pleasures". Remixes of songs I usually wouldn't listen to. . .Ricky Martin and Britney Spears, et al. Hey, that's why headphones were invented, right?:flowerforyou:
  • i find dance music is good coz u can keep to the beat easily :wink:
  • THE BEST WORKOUT MUSIC......drum roll please....

    Ministry of sound funky house compilations..

    I only have the 2005 one but they are the best i have ever used and i go to the gym every day, running 4 miles per session, so it keeps me going.

    Its great because they never end, so you dont wait for the boring parts of the song, its all good to listen to.

    Music is the best thing for a workout, so i hope you find some good stuff!
  • Deargan
    Deargan Posts: 18
    Hi-- Thanks for posting this. I got some new ideas too. :happy:
    Alot of what was posted is what I listen to also. Other than I'm not much of an 80's fan. However, I'd like to add the "All the right reasons" album from Nickelback. The songs there have good steady beats too. 99% of my workouts are running (hey, I'm in the military, it's required) So towards the end of my run I like "Rompe" by Daddy Yankee, "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavine, and "Down, Down" by Fall Out Boy because the beat is so pronounced that you can actually make your steps match it and concentrate on that rythm instead of the sound of your muscles screaming "STOP" :laugh:
  • FatDancer
    FatDancer Posts: 812 Member
    All of Hossam Ramzy's Sabla Tolo CDs...or any type of Drum Solos...any Metallica, I should have been their drummer.

    Fat Dancer
  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    Great ideas everyone!
  • Have you tried the Booty Mashups? OH MY GOD they're sooo good! You can download three years of the album on the Booty website...can't remember the actual address, but I'm sure you could browse it. It's got some of the best mixes ever like The Jackson Five mixed with Guns N Roses, and Lil Ma mixed with that old song Tequila...
    They're so incredibly fun.
  • Have you tried the Booty Mashups? OH MY GOD they're sooo good! You can download three years of the album on the Booty website...can't remember the actual address, but I'm sure you could browse it. It's got some of the best mixes ever like The Jackson Five mixed with Guns N Roses, and Lil Ma mixed with that old song Tequila...
    They're so incredibly fun.

    Woops thats Bootie. With an --ie.
  • ali106
    ali106 Posts: 3,754 Member
    great music people! lol
  • mystery7707
    mystery7707 Posts: 25 Member
    I'm not going to lie, I love to listen to dance music and even techno when I workout... it's so energizing. Some of the tops on my playlist:

    With love - hilary duff
    piece of me - britney spears
    sorry - madonna
    hung up - madonna
    mr vain - culture beat (an oldie but a goodie)
    anything and EVERYTHING off dance mix 95........lol, not kidding!
    everybody dance now - c and c music factory
    girlfriend - avril lavigne
    suddenly i see - KT Tunstall
    Alone - heart
    listen to your heart - dht
    every time we touch - cascada
    fat bottom girls - queen
    sweet caroline remix - angelo venuto (soooo good)
    promiscuous girl - nelly furtado
    fergalicious - fergie
    sexy back - justin timberlake

    so many more. Even if you are cleaning around the house or doing dishes, put something on and just dance a bit... burns some cals and makes cleaning more fun :wink:
  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    SoupNazi, you just listed about half of my playlist!!! LOL:laugh:
  • SoupNazi
    SoupNazi Posts: 4,229 Member
    SoupNazi, you just listed about half of my playlist!!! LOL:laugh:

    Oh My Gosh...there are others out there like me??:noway: We are either really, really cool or really, really nerdy. Let's call ourselves hardcore cool:glasses:

    :drinker: Here's to being hardcore nerdy, I mean hardcore cool!

    :laugh:
  • alyfin
    alyfin Posts: 103
    Another excellent group is 30 Seconds to Mars. Almost their whole album "A Beuatiful Lie" is a similar tempo. Easy to keep going. And I like Jimmy Eat World, but usually have to skip their slower songs.
  • LightenUp_Caro
    LightenUp_Caro Posts: 572 Member
    mine is embarassing.
    I listen to angry man music as well as showtunes (hey, it gets me going), celine dion (no laughing please), meatloaf, of course those guilty pleasure pop songs, i love listen to modest mouse, scissor sisters - i don't feel like dancing (that song always makes me pick up the pace and i can't stop myself), dolly parton is in the mix, a little marilyn mason (i know thats strange), but ALWAYS always I listen to red hot chili peppers.
    ...just a lot of random music so I never get bored.
    i have eclectic music taste.
  • SoupNazi
    SoupNazi Posts: 4,229 Member
    Oops, I see I made a typo. :noway: Just like You is by Three Days Grace not Breaking Benjamin. My bad.
  • pam0206
    pam0206 Posts: 700 Member
    Just updated my playlist a couple of days ago. I will give you some of them:

    Run to You(:laugh: ): Bryan Adams
    Dance Like There's No Tomorrow: Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson
    Numb: U2 (This is how I feel on the treadmill sometimes.)
    Pocketful of Sunshine: Natasha Bedingfield
    The Reflex: Duran Duran
    Don't Stop the Music: Rihanna
    Extraordinary: Liz Phair
    Crushcrushcrush: Paramore
    Elevator: Flo Rida featuring Timbaland
    Shiver: Maroon 5
    When Did Your Heart Go Missing: Rooney (great beat to run with)
    Alive: P.O.D.
  • I love anything by Buck Cherry, Nickleback, ACDC, Kid Rock. I also have a lot of oldies like Tesla, Billy Squire, Great White, Bon Jovi, Poison, Whitesnake and Cinderella. I'm a child of the 80's so a lot of hair bands. But I also have Justin Timberlake, Fall Out Boys, Three Days Grace and Hinder. I just bought a CD last week called Party Central that has a lot of 80's and 90's dance music but I don't have it on my player yet.
  • emtink
    emtink Posts: 387 Member
    any of Oojami's albums. He's a turkish guy living in the UK, and he mixes club beats with middle eastern music. bellydancers love Oojami because its so 'user friendly' to people unfamiliar with world music. also good for workouts because the songs have very consistent up-tempo beats 'bellydancing breakbeats' is my favorite album.
  • luvdance
    luvdance Posts: 42
    house music house music and more house music
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    Godsmack, Disturbed, Korn is good for those hard days, Linkin Park, Stained, Greenday, alice n chains, GnR (welcome to the jungle is an AWESOME high intensity workout jam!), Old Van Halen, Metallica, some Creed, Nirvana, STP, Velvet Revolver, Foo Fighters, Chris Daughtry, Kid Rock, Perl Jam, Drowning Pool (rough, but pretty good), Papa Roach.

    that's all I can think of that's on my ipod, but I have more.
  • Vertu
    Vertu Posts: 13
    House music all the way.

    My favourites are the new Renaissance, Club Azuli and Miami Underground from Ministry of Sound, and Mashed from Ministry of Sound Australia.

    When you're in that last leg of the treadmill Prodigy "Their Law" really pushes you through too.

    Vertu
  • butterjoy
    butterjoy Posts: 303 Member
    I PURCHASE MY EXERCISE MUSIC FROM THE www.dynamixmusic.com THEY HAVE MANY KINDS OF MUS IC TO CHOOSE FROM. MY FAVORITE IS BEST OF CURVES CARDIO VOLUME 1-16. THE RYTHM IS FANTASTIC AND HELPS ME MOVE TO THE BEAT (140 BPM, BEATS PER MINUTE). ANYHOW, CHECK THE WEBSITE

    www.dynamixmusic.com

    HOPE THIS HELPS.
    JOY

    THIS DESCRIBES WHAT I USE--
    This greatest hits collection features the most requested songs from each of rthe Curves Cardio CDs volumes 1-16. With everything from Pop to Oldies and Techno to Rock, the variety of music on this CD will make it an excellent addition to your music library 60 minutes.

    ALL ON ONE CD BPM
    1. I Only Wanna Be With You 140
    2. Tainted Love 140
    3. Gimme All Your Lovin' 140
    4. Heaven Knows 140
    5. MMM Bop 140
    6. Too Late 140
    7. Rescue Me 140
    8. A Moment Like This 140
    9. Uptight 140
    10. I'm Gonna Getcha Good 140
    11. Take Me To The River 140
    12. Twenty-Five Miles 140
    13. Born To Hand Jive 140
    14. A Quien Le Importe 140
    15. The Only Way Is Up 140
    16. Boogie Fever 140
  • I worked out to this song this morning


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6a9eKubLlM

    I don't know who the guy in drag is. I just liked the song.
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