Wanted: Workout Playlists

What are you listening to while you're at the gym?

I'm tired of my current songs ("Everytime We Touch" by Cascada, "500 miles" by the Pretenders, Gwen Stefani, etc...)  and could use some inspiration. :)

Depending on what music you like.....I LOVE fall out boy, and I chose songs from them that get me motivated....If you have somthing called limewire or Mp3 rocket you can browse songs that get you pumped :]

I primarily listen to folk and bluegrass, and I've managed to put together about 4-5 hours worth of music on my mp3 player that keeps me moving at a pretty good clip on the ellipitical. 

Some of the artists include:  Melissa Ferrick, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dave Carter/Tracy Grammer, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Kris Delmhorst, Eddie From Ohio, Ani Difranco...  

If anyone wants specifics from the genre, let me know and I can recommend a few, if not many, songs. 

-wg 

First off....I LOVE cascada!

and i know what its like to be tired of her haha...I love listening to like Jimmy Buffett while I'm working out.  It gives me the music and the beach visual with the motivation not to look like a beached whale : )

Some of my other faves include: Bad Boy(Cascada), Kerosene(Miranda Lambert), Nothing to Lose (Josh Gracin), Listen to your heart Remix (DHT), most things VanHalen, Invisible Touch (Phil Collins/Genesis), LIfe is a Highway (Tom Cochran/Rascal Flatts)

My playlist:

Beyonce - Baby Boy, Crazy In Love,
Shakira - Hips Don't Lie, Whenever Wherever,
MVP - Roc ya body,
Sean Paul - Busy,
Mika - Grace Kelly,
Scissor Sisters - I don't feel like dancing,
Sophie Ellis Bextor - murder on the dancefloo,
Kylie Minogue - spinning around, love at first sight, chain reaction, etc,
Girls Aloud - something kind of ooh, the show,
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered,
Take That - Shine,
Britney Spears - My Perogative, Toxic
Anastacia - I'm Outta Love, Left Outside Alone,
Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes,
Cabin Crew - Waiting For A Star To Fall,
Eric Prydz - Call On Me,
Uniting Nations - Out Of Touch,
Rhianna - Pon De Replay,
Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit),
2play - So Confused,
Christina Aguilera - Dirrty, Candy Man, Fighter
Dana Rayne - Object of my desire,
DJ Sammy - Heaven,
Justin Timberlake - Sexyback, Like I Love You, Senorita, Rock Your body
The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men,
Jennifer Lopez - Get Right, Love Don't Cost A Thing
Christina/Lil Kim/Mya etc - Lady Marmalade,
Usher - Yeah!,
Javine - Surrender Your Love,
Jamelia - Superstar,
Kelis - Milkshake, Trick Me,
Fountains Of Wayne - Stacey's Mom,

& I'll stop there.
Yeah I have a long playlist, but I don't get bored. :]
Hope that helped.  

Here are some songs that I find motivating:

Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror

Tim McGraw - Next 30 years, Something Like That

Brad Paisley - The World

Toby Keith - How do you like me now?

Hilary Duff - Coming Clean

Cold Play - Speed of Sound

Kelly Clarkson - Since You've Been Gone

I need to listen to face pace songs to keep up with my stride while running - here are a few:

Gnarls Barkley

Jay-Z

Stone Temple Pilots

Chritina Milian

Biggie Smalls

Justin Timberlake

P-Diddy/Puffy (not sure what he goes by these days (LOL). 

I also listen to a lot of latin artists:

Tego Calderon (Reggaeton)

Marc Anthony (Salsa)

Sergio Vargas (Merengue)

Calle 13 (Reggaeton)

Justin Timberlake~SexyBack
Fergie~London Bridge
Nelly Furtado~Say it Right
Beyonce~Freakum Dress
Britney Spears~Toxic
Beyonce~Get Me Bodied
Christina Aguliera~Candyman
Beyonce~Ring the Alarm
Britney Spears~Outrageous
Beyonce~Suga Mama
Nelly Furtado~Maneater
Beyonce~DeJaVu
Beyonce~Crazy In Love
Beyonce~Naughty Girl
Nelly Furtado~Glow
Bowling for Soup~1985
Fountains of Wayne~Stacy's Mom

This is just my Running Workout Playlist on my Ipod. I have several other playlists but when I am running I need lots of songs with relatively good beats and all of the above songs seem to make me run faster and longer.

white stripes be your own pet linkin park! (so old school but they REALLY get me going) random dance mixes, heavy beats can really stimulate your pace! Red hot chili peppers the hives the cure blue october daft punk system of a down the yeah yeah yeahs AFI interpol

if you have itunes and want to check out some podcasts, look for anything by fitpod.com - they've got really cool mixes, and the best thing is, their mixes all have set bpm the entire mix through.  Mixes tend to be 30 min, 40 min, 50 min, and sometimes an hour or more.  BPM amounts vary, and will be written in the mix's description, so you know what you're in for.

That's what I use when I'm on my bike.  My favorite mix so far is space cast lite.

This week I am listening to bands that start with the letter "A".   So my ipod is loaded with AC/DC, Audioslave, Artic Monkeys, American HiFi, AFI, Avoid One Thing and Aerosmith.   Last week was all U2.   I just worry that one of these days I am going embaress myself by singing out loud at the gym. 

These are all great suggestions, I'm trying them out at the gym today! Thanks everyone!

I just downloaded a bunch of stuff...

Fall out Boy- Arms race, Sugar we're going down, Dance Dance

Madonna ANYTHING- Hung Up is a good mover

Eric Prydz- Call you my Bitch

Mason Vs Princess- Superstar

Vinylshakerz- Club Tropicana, One night in Bangkok

Global Deejays- FlashDance, San Francisco

Beyonce & Shakira- Beautiful Liar

GoldFrapp= Oh La La, Strict Machine

Bob Sinclair- World Hold on

Dave McCullen- Electric Girl

Shiny Toy Guns- Le Disko

Gabriel & Dresden- Tracking Treasure

Eminem and Nate Dog- Shake That

Drop the Pressure- Mylo

Nelly Furtado- Give It to Me, ManEater

The Bravery= Honest Mistake

Benny Benassi- California Dreaming, I Love my sex, Satisfaction

JLO- Let's Get Loud

Diddy- Last Night, Come to Me, Tell Me

Dirty South- Spank

Paul Oakenfold ft. Brittany Murphy- Faster Kill Pussycat

Deep Dish- Dreams

Royksopp- white DUke Remix

This is my cardio stuff...if you want lifting more intense rock stuff msg me. :)

:) I usually work out to rap.

Try Pitbull - Toma, Shake

Lil Jon - anything, just about

and T-Pain :)

I think that my 10 year old sister heavily influences my song choices...=). Here's my song lineup:

Pussycat Dolls-Wait a Minute, Beep, I Don?t Need a Man, Hot Stuff, Sway, Buttons

Christina Aguilera-Candy Man

Pink-U+Ur Hand

Timbaland/Nelly Furtado/Justin Timberlake-Give it to Me

Massari-Be Easy

Subliminal-Toro (Israeli pop/rap)

Hadag Nachash-Hinei Ani Ba (Israeli hip-hop)

Harel Mouyal-Emtza Halayla Bakfar (the Israeli version of American idol?)

Fall Out Boy-This Ain?t a Scene

Linkin Park-Numb (the remix)

Nickelback-If Everyone Cared

Hinder-Better Than Me

The emo-pop at the end is nice for warming up and those ?speed walk? breaks between sprints/jogs.

Now that I think about it, most of these songs (while great for running) are probably inappropriate for a ten year old to be listening to?Whatever happened to Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer?

Que lastima?

my playlist:

Y Control- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Sexy Results- Death From Above 1979

God Killed the Queen- Louis XIV

Push- Madonna

Idioteque- Radiohead

Don't Give Up- Noisettes

Easy Love- MSTRKRFT

Noisy At The Circus- Head Like A Kite

Do It!- Death From Above 1979

Miss Alissa- Eagles of Death Metal

Modern Things- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Never There- Cake

Dashboard- Modest Mouse

New- No Doubt

Supermassive Black Hole- Muse

The Prayer- Bloc Party

Move Your Body- Nina Sky

De Ja Vu- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

my playlist-

for stretching~

cold play-the scientist

phil collins-groovy kinda love

meatloaf-2 out of 3

u2-stuck in a moment-

these get me thinking about why I am changing my life for the better,together they kinda tell my journey to this point and it keeps me motivated to succeed.

for working out I change it up very often,a like alot of the 80's hair bands(def leppard,motley crue,poision,scorpions,ac/dc,ozzy,etc.)Classi c rock gets me pumped to-takes me back to rebelious youth and how I was then and want to be again.

If just one song, make it this one:
It's My Turn Now by Keke Palmer