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