Songs to Exercise By?....
 

Hi All,

I'm new to this site, just joined up yesterday! This is my first official post (less the Intro one) and I hope I'm posting this in the right forum!

I'm 28 - 240 lbs (whoa!) and am in need of some great tunes to motivate my butt at the gym. Any suggestions?

Please and Thanks!

-Sarah

Welcome to the boards!

I really love some Daft Punk. Their music is always so upbeat and fun, without a lot of words to distract me. Here are some of my personal favorites:

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Around the World

One More Time

Aerodynamic

Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

The music I typically enjoy is not good for working out, but something that gets me pumped and going hard is the Black Eyed Peas. I'm not a huge fan, but can tolerate the music.

There's just something about them that get's you working hard though!

There's a thread like this going on in the exercise forum, but I'll repost my (partial!) list here too. :)

All-American Rejects: Gives You ****, Dirty Little Secret
Akon: Beautiful
Foo Fighters: The Best of You
Jimmy Eat World: Pain, The Middle
The Killers: When You Were Young
The White Tie Affair: Candle (Sick and Tired)
3OH!3: Don't Trust Me, My First Kiss
Chris Brown: Forever
Coldplay: Viva la Vida
Metro Station: Control
Boys Like Girls: Great Escape
Scorpions: Rock You Like a Hurricane
Heart: Alone, What About Love
Daughtry: Over You

I like your songs, I like to listen to 98.5, 97.5, and 94.1, those are all good stations to work out to. :)

I listen to Rehab (the band, not the song by Amy Winehouse or Rihanna), Lady GaGa, Rihanna, and then assorted popular R&B stuff as I work out. I really like Rehab and Lady GaGa the best, though.

Thanks All!

I'll check out the exercise forum for more.

Love the Daft Punk - thanks for the idea- I completely forgot about them!

Some of my favs - for running especially are Royksopp, Goldfrapp (Strict Machine is the best song! and White Horse), Ke$ha...

Basement Jaxx are good("good luck" is an awesome song) Lately I have been listening to V V Brown.

i'm a hard rock and metalhead (American metal, not so much european metal that gets into "black" metal or "death" metal) but music is the #1 motivator for me! I was a ballet dancer all through High School, and then in college, I didnt take ballet anymore and so i picked up running. I HATED running, but I needed to workout somehow right? Now I've been running for about 3 years, and I actually kind of like it, but I could NEVER do it without my ipod.

Some of the songs on my workout list (good for getting pumped up, stoked, and even little angry) are:

"Two Weeks" by All That Remains
"Prayer" & "Just Stop"by Disturbed
"Fractured" by Taproot
"Blur", "Get Back" & "Now or Never" by Zebrahead
"A Certain Shade of Green" by Incubus
"Sticks n' Stones" by Jamie T
"A Little Piece of Heaven" & "Almost Easy" by Avenged Sevenfold
"Closer to the Edge" by 30 Seconds to Mars
"Shoulda Known Better" & "F.I.G.H.T" by Unwritten Law
"Eryn Smith" by the Matches
"Whatever" by Godsmack
"Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot


Hope this helps! Good luck getting started =)

mine is a totally insane mixture! haha.. this is seriously my most recent mix for working out..

airplanes - b.o.b with hayley williams
starstruck- lady gaga
ray of light - madonna
rude boy - rhianna
tik tok -ke$ha
elevator love letter - stars
i gotta feelin - black eyed peas
piece of me - britney
liszomania - phoenix
one way or another - blondie

i totally second daft punk, it gets me pumped.

i also like the whole confessions on the dance floor album by madonna, and fighter- by christina aguilera.

I think Ridin' Solo by Jason Derulo is super upbeat and when I get on the elliptical and put that song on I just go to town. So, throw that on your playlist!

OMG, that is absolutely one of my favorite songs!!! I have it set as my ringtone right now. :)

And these....
...are all on my playlist as well. :)

Totally agree...love that song!!! Took me forever, though, to figure out what he was saying (obviously I didn't know the song title). For the longest time I was going "he's not a cholo???" or "he's not a troll-o???" or "something solo???" LOL

Hi, Sarah! Welcome to 3FC!

I LOVE working out to Lady Gaga. Her music has a great beat for working out and her songs make me feel like a sassy, indepedent, hottttt individual!

OMG - Usher
Lil Freak - Usher
California Girls - Katy Perry
Sexy B!tch - David Gueretta feat. Akon