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

All those are on my list, too, except for the Katy Perry song.

lol!! I know the Katy Perry song is kind of random!

Music makes such a HUGE difference when you're working out! Anyway, here's my playlist, sorry if some songs are repeats of what others have said:

Thinkin' Bout Somethin'- Hanson (yes I know...but Hanson has really upbeat songs!!)
Hard- Rihanna
Slow Ride- Foghat
Up In Here- DMX
Let it Rock- Kevin Rudolf
Bulletproof- La Roux
Carry Out- Justin Timberlake
Here It Goes Again- Ok Go
Poker Face/Bad Romace/Just Dance- Lady GaGa
According to You- Orianthi
The Remedy- Jason Mraz
Lots of Paramore songs
Bedrock- Young Money
Lots of Linkin Park songs
Dirty Little Secret- All-American Rejects

Hi Sarah, I'm Sarah too!

I like listening to Royksopp, Robyn, Ratatat (slow for some I guess), Slagsmalsklubben (have fun looking that one up haha!), some Metric, some Loney,Dear, some Polarkreis 18. Ok.. I think my music taste might be a little eclectic but thought I'd pop in with some different suggestions!

Oh, I listen to all kinds of music (except country...I don't really listen to it much anymore)...but I just haven't listened to the Katy Perry song yet. ;)

I like upbeat music to work out. Britney and Shakira are my two favs. Here's some of my list ... but be warned ... some of my songs are ... antiques.;) And some aren't meant to be heard by children. LOL

Pink -
Get the Party Started
Sober

Katy Perry -
California Gurls

Rihanna -
Push Up On Me
Rude Boy
Shut Up and Drive

Britney -
Piece of Me
Stronger
What U See is What U Get
Boys
I'm a Slave 4 U
Outrageous
Freakshow
What it's Like To Be Me
Gimme More

Shakira -
Give It Up To Me
Whenever, Wherever
Hips Don't Lie
La Tortura
She Wolf

Christina Aguilera -
Dirrty
Fighter
Genie in a Bottle

Divinyls -
Bullet
Back to the Wall
Love School
Need a Lover

Samantha Fox -
I Wanna Have Some Fun
Naughty Girls Need Love Too
Love House

Sweet Sensation -
Take It While It's Hot

George Clinton -
Atomic Dog

Vanity 6 -
Nasty Girl

Madonna -
Justify My Love
White Heat

Morris Day -
Jungle Love

Berlin -
Pleasure Victim

George Michael -
I Want Your Sex

Klymaxx -
Meeting in The Ladies Room

Midnight Star -
No Parking on the Dance Floor
Freakazoid

Marvin Sease -
Candy licker
I Ate You For My Breakfast

Salt n Pepa -
Independent

And the entire Monster Booty CD rocks ...

Lady Gaga
Kesha
Cascada (mmmm techno/electronica/dance is great for running!)

lol I love this song too! You're right, Hanson definitely has some upbeat songs.

Thanks for all of the suggestions listed... I've added many to my ipod! :)

right now I have found some older songs that Im totally into, like Run DMC it's tricky is like stuck in my head! can't get it out!!

What an awesome idea for a thread. Everyone's posted some awesome songs, many of which are already on my playlists for the gym. I personally go for a huge mash-up of stuff. Anything that's driving, has a good beat, or can get you pumped... I just slap it all together and sweat baby sweat.

Still a huge fan of all the music I grew up with, y'know.. the 90's rock, R&B, etc. But I never rule out anything interesting.

Eminem - Lose Yourself
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
The Fratellis - Flathead / Henrietta
The Futureheads - Struck Dumb (One of my fav. treadmill songs!)
Jimmy Eat World - The entire "Chase this Light" CD
Jurassic 5 - One Two / The Game / Freedom (Great beats)
The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful
M.I.A. - Paper Planes / Galang
Madonna - The entire "Confessions on a Dance Floor" CD


3OH!3
Black Eyed Peas
Lady Gaga
Daft Punk
Shinedown
Seether
The Descendents
Fall Out Boy
So many other things as well... but I won't ramble on for forever. :dizzy:

Me too!!!! :)

If you are a country fan - Sugarland "settlin" - its always first on my ipod cuz it gives me a real pick me up to get started!

Also I like
Rev Theory - "**** Yeah"
Kid Rock - "So Hott"
Iron Madien - "Run to the Hills"
Some old Backstreet Boys really makes me want to move too!

:carrot:

HAHAH Great suggestions guys!

I'm an old skool hardcore breakbeat junky (techno) so I have TONS of old mixes from all sorts of DJs around the world.

To those that mentioned Daft Punk and Basement Jaxx - you can never go wrong.

I actually heard the song "4th of July" by Kalis today (you know, the girl that did the milkshake song) and it's actually pretty dope. Has a good house beat behind it.

Pink--any of her stuff
Hinder- nothin good about goodbye, get stoned
eminem- lose yourself, i love the way you lie
black eyed peas- imma be

KMFDM - Megalomaniac. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwhOTNQcQq4

Currently on my phone (which is what I use for the gym music):


...To Be Loved [Papa Roach]
Beep [PCD]
Before I forget [Slipknot]
Bodies [Drowning Pool]
Bomb This Track [Mindless Self Indulgence]
Disposable Teens [Marilyn Manson]
Du Hast [Rammstein]
****** [Mindless Self Indulgence]
Fighter [Christina Aguilera]
From This Day [Machine Head]
Getting Away With Murder [Papa Roach]
Her Portrait In Black [Atreyu]
Just Like A Pill [Pink]
Kill The Rock [MSI]
Lights Out [MSI]
Lollipop [DADA]
Minority [Green Day]
Nobody [Skindred]
Omen [The Prodigy]
Perfect Exceeder [Mason vs Princess Superstar]
Prescription [MSI]
Propane Nightmares [Pendulum]
Set It Off [Skindred]
So What [Pink]
Spitfire [The Prodigy]
The Creeps [Fedde Le Grande]
The New Workout Plan [Kanye West]
The Taste of Ink [The Used]
This is the New S**t [Marilyn Manson]
Trouble [Pink]
Wait and Bleed [Slipknot]
We Still Kill The Old Way [Lostprophets]
When I Grow Up [Garbage]
When I Grow Up [PCD]


Bolded are the ones that I find REALLY work. I know, a real mis - but it's whatever works for certain situations with me!

Really loving Billionaire by Travie McCoy right now...and Tipsy by Chingy (I think that's right).

Living Fire - Man the Prodigy's Invaders Must Die album is DOPE! That's on my play list as well, although mine is so played out I have to completely redo mine! Pendulum is one of my fav groups too - Holy crap their stuff is on fire. Have you ever checked out High Contrast? *head explodes*

Some of Justin Timberlake's stuff is good for working out too.

You all have some great suggestions :)