So for my birthday this past week I received an Ipod nano - I asked for it so that I could have something good to listen to @ the gym. I had a radio - but reception was poor inside the building...and I find that the more up beat the music, the harder I work out. I could use some inspiration on what to put into my playlist....but here is what I got so far....maybe y'all can help - I love all kinds of music - but for this I need something (especially for cardio time) that makes me feel like running like there is no tomorrow!

P.S. this is not my normal music taste...although it is wide...I would normally laugh at some of these songs ... but the beat is great for running.

50Cent - Ayo Technology
Soulja Boy - Crank That
Linkin Park - Bleed it out
T-Pain - Bartender
Timbaland - The Way I Are
Rza/Bobby Digital - La Rhumba


Help would be appreciated - I need more music to fill up my time and need something with similar beats to the above. Thanks!

I don't really listen to music at the gym! My iPod is full of Podcasts (I listen to 4 weekly: The FitCast; www.thefitcast.com , Livin' La Vida Low Carb; http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/ , Mugglecast; www.mugglecast.com and Car Talk; www.cartalk.com ) and Audio Books. I get the Podcasts off of iTunes (they're free!) and the Audio Books I've obtained through "other" means If you want to do it very legally, you can use a program called Audible to download audiobooks.

Anyway, I've listened to many-a-book on my iPod, and that's my favorite use for it!

Sorry I couldn't help with the music, but if you like audiobooks at all, it is an option! Some people I've talked to about it have said it never occurred to them to listen to audiobooks on their iPods.

It all depends on what I'm doing

For cardio it's pop or rap stuff
Hilary Duff
Bubba Sparxx
Carrie Underwood
Leann Rimes
etc

For strength training it's more rock hardcore stuff to make me in an angry type of mood to push harder:
Anything Rob Zombie
Linkin Park
Dropkick Murphys
etc....

setember by earth wnd and fre

These songs get me totally pumped even though I don't go to the gym:

Kanye West - Good Life
Baby Bash - Cyclone
Tpain and Chris Brown - Kiss Kiss
Tpain - Buy You A Drank
Kanye West - Stronger
Nelly - Grillz
Shop Boyz - Party Like A Rockstar
Huey - Pop Lock and Drop it
Gym Class Heroes - Clothes Off!
Baby Boy - This Is The Way We Live
Ciara - Like A Boy
Hurricane Chris - Ay Bay Bay

Mindless Self Indulgence remixes
Korn
Rob Zombie
CombiChrist
Emily Autumn remixes
Linkin park
Orgy
Blackeyed Peas
Zombie Girl
Leaether Strip

(Are those of which are ALWAYS on my Ipod)

Azure - I will definitely check out the books - I never even thought of that....

Also - I most definitely will take somthing from all of your lists - they are most definitely helpful!

On a side note, as of this morning, I'm down to minus 20lbs!! yahoo!

I dislike pop/hip hop/rap so I try and keep it off my iPod for the gym and instead listen to some high energy rock. Some of my favourites on my Work Out Playlist:

Arcade Fire - Power Out, Keep the Car Running
The Holloways - Dancefloor
Interpol - Length of Love, The Heinrich Maneuver
Bloc Party - Helicopter, The Once & Future King
Tokyo Police Club - Nature of the Experiment

They're not for everyone, but they're a great alternative to the typical Top 40 type of stuff.

Here are a few that weren't already mentioned:

Black Eyed Peas- Pump It; Let's Get It Started
Christina Auguliera (sp??) - Fighter
Dance With Me - Debelah Morgan
I don't want to be in love - Good Charlotte
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Lose Yourself - Eminem
Wanna Be a Baller - Li'l Troy
Dancing Queen - A Teans (or Abba, either one)

Depending on my mood I either listen to hard rock or hiphop/dance so right now I have 2 lists I'm switching back and forth between:

Seether - Fake It
Dope - I Wish I Was The President
Fallout Boy - This Aint A Scene It's An Arms Race
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
Korn - Twisted Transistor
Marilyn Manson - You Spin Me Around
Muse - Map Of The Problematique
Nine Inch Nails - Bite The Hand That Feeds
Orgy - Blue Monday
Seether - Remedy
Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches
Rob Zombie - Dragula


Gwen Stefani - Yummy
Kill Hannah - I Wanna Be A Kennedy
Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back
50 Cent - Ayo Technology
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Kanye West - Stronger
Nelly Furtado - Man Eater (DJ Gizmo Remix)
Paul Oakenfold - No Compromise
Rihanna - Break It Up
Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disco
Timbaland - The Way I Are
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For
Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

Foo fighters and Incubus. I forget that I'm even running on a treadmill when I'm listening to them

I have a curious list of songs on my sansa. They mostly have a fast beat going on (a lot of metal and hard rock), and there are a few oddballs on there of course.

Nightwish - Gethsemane
Tristania - Tender Trip on Earth
After Forever - My Pledge of Allegiance part 1
Breaking Benjamin - Sooner or Later
Evanescence - Snow White Queen
Nightwish - The Poet and the Pendulum
Nightwish - Bye Bye Beautiful
Nightwish - 7 Days to the Wolves
Melissa Etheridge - I'm the Only One
Aqua - Candyman
Aqua - My Oh My
Avril Lavigne - Fall to Pieces
David Bowie - Golden Years
Def Leppard - No Matter What
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
Journey - Seperate Ways
Savage Garden - I Want You
The Scorpions - Rhythm of Love
The Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
The Darkness - I Believe in the Thing Called Love
Van Halen - Pretty Woman
Van Halen - Panama
White Lion - Tell Me
Sonata Arctica - My Selene
Nightwish - Last of the Wilds
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
Bon Jovi - Runaway
Evanescence - Bring Me to Life
Spin Doctors - Two Princes
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
My Ruin - Tainted Love
Poison - Nothing But a Good Time

audio books on my ipod, never thought of that. does it cost money to download audiobooks?

It depends on if you're doing it legally or not. I'm not so scrupulous. However, I'm sure that 3FC likely don't appreciate advocating anything that might be considered illegal so *zip*.

That said, there are ways to download audio books that are perfectly legal. There is a site called Audible www.audible.com (I used to use them) that offers a few different packages for book downloads. If you buy an audio book on CD, it's about $50 usually--which is a LOT of money! Audible costs anywhere from $8-$12 per book (depending on which "package" you purchase), which is a lot more reasonable. They have a great selection, too. I used to use Audible, stick the books on my old Mp3 player and listen to them in the car. When I got my iPod, I started listening to audio books ALL the time. Another option is to go to your local library and take out some audio books on CD. If your library doesn't have the one you want, they'll often order it for you from a different library. You can stick the discs into your CD drive on your PC and iTunes can pull the audio tracks off of the CDs, so you can put the files onto your iPod that way,too. It's time consuming, but it's free!

I've listened to:

-- The Hobbit
-- The Diamond Age, or a Young Ladies' Illustrated Primer
-- Most of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books
-- The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede
-- Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea series
-- All of Stephen King's Dark Tower books.
-- The Mallorean and Bellgariad books by David and Leigh Eddings
-- All of the Harry Potter books

etc. I like fantasy-esque books

Shadow Claw!!!! We have similar tastes in music. Rockin' list!!!!