Your workout (or exercise or whatever you deem suitable) playlist

[Diamicles]

Megadeth, Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, RAtM, Linkin Park, Pantera, the Urge, Faktion, Trust Co., Static-X, Coheed and Cambria, Paramore, Flyleaf, Lacuna Coil in the rock side.

J-Live, Dilated Peoples, Mos Def, Blackstar, Jurassic 5 in the hip hop side.

I rotate songs and bands every week or two, but these bands are primarily in there every week.

[Demni]

YouTube - Look to the sky[True Color Extended Remix]

I'd have to say stuff similar to this, since its a Konami/Bemani song, I have probly every album released form any Konami music artist so I just rifle through those and play my favorites.

When i get tried of that I'll change up to Global DJ Radio Shows, really good time killers since the flow is continuous makes it easier to me.

[Tyche]

Eye of the Tiger.

The end.

running music, music to run to, best running music

RUNNING MUSIC – RHYTHM AND BEAT
AUTHOR – GARY BLAKE FOUNDER RUN2RHYTHM
I have been requested by many people to explain why my run2rhythm website was created and what the significance of specialist running music is. I feel it is best explained by description and also comparison of one of the perceived great running tracks ‘Eye of the Tiger’ and a specific running track from my website ‘Bionic Pulse’.
Let’s start by talking music terminology.
Musical beat is notated by a system of time signatures and measures.
BEAT is the foundation of the piece of music that determines the speed of the music. The BEAT is what we keep in time with when we dance – what we tap our feet or fingers to. The speed of music is indicated by a tempo mark above the first measure of the musical score. This is measured as Beats per Minute and rarely changes during a song. The BEAT can be represented in a piece of music many different ways from solid easily identifiable drum beats too the most subtle of pulses emanating throughout the music.

RHYTHM can be best described as the flow of the music over the underlying beat. The melody, the syncopation, the faster sounds, slower sounds, the ebbs and flows, the highs and lows, the excitement, the calmness of the overlying melody are all part of the embrace of rhythm. RHYTHM is the part of the music that is emotive and most influences our response to the music.
Music is a very perplexing medium and many people don’t quite understand it. They know what they like and what they don’t like. But, why is it that we like some music and dislike other music? Is it the sound, the melody, the beat, the rhythms? Is it the performer with brilliance or an artist who is just plain terrible. Why is it that some music sounds inspiring and great but is lousy to run with? Why is it that some music sounds just average but is sensational to run to?
Why is it that a piece of music can have such an inspiring sound, feel as if it is fast and upbeat only to be at a slow beat and totally unsuitable for running with?
e.g. “Eye of the Tiger.”
Why is it that a tranquil, wafting piece of music can sometimes have a solid and fast beat and be ideal for running? Why is it that during a run when the body needs to relax a bit more but keep at the same speed this music becomes awesome? When you combine the excitement of solid sounds and rhythms with a beat suitable for running, that’s when your run can be truly musically inspired!
Ideal running music has many musical elements to it and should not be just high energy repetitive sounds. Repetitive ‘techno’ can become very boring after a short while. Conversely ‘New Age’ can be horribly uninteresting as well. Running music should contain all the elements of well composed and well constructed music. It must have great variety and enable the runner to run as they want – to either, switch off and enjoy the surrounds whilst the music keeps them at their speed or, to listen to all elements of the music and enjoy it for what it is.
When out running most people run from a half hour up to 2-3 hours. Marathons for most take 3-5 hours. Even in a half hour run playing popular music will consist of probably 10 -15 different songs. All will be at various Beats per Minute and the runner will have little chance of running with a steady pace or a good rhythm if trying to run to the music.
Although “Eye of the Tiger’ has wonderful sounds, solid rhythms and is truly a brilliant and inspiring musical score it is simply no good for running. Its beat is far too slow.
Looking at the graphics below best describe what I mean here.
EYE OF THE TIGER 109BPM 6.6 sec

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Music notes represent the beat and the body cannot run to this beat. It is actually slower than slow walking pace.
The red music notes below equal the ‘foot plant’ when running at 5 minutes per km (8min per mile)
Run2Rhythm music - BIONIC PULSE 166BPM 6.6 sec


It can be seen that in the space of 3 musical bars of ‘Eye of the Tiger’ the runner would have listened to 12 beats whereas in the same time frame with ‘Bionic Pulse’ the runner would have listened to 18.25 beats over 4.5 bars all in the time space of 6.6seconds.
Even at the slowest running music speed we have on our website at 150bpm (10 mins per km, 16mins per mile), the runner would have taken 16 ½ steps in the 6.6sec time frame above.
If running at a speed to meet this time (5min per km), running with ‘Eye of the Tiger’ will have no relevance to the running rhythm and consequently the runner’s body rhythm. The ‘feel good’ sound of the music may well be lost during the run.
How much do we like to dance out of sync with music – not at all. Why then should we be running (i.e. moving our bodies) out of sync with the music on our MP3’s and iPods.
If simply we are out for a run and don’t really care about the sync of the body – then fair enough. But if we are concerned about the overall syncopation of our running effort and mind and body effort, then we should be very conscious of the beat of the music we are running with.

More importantly, we should look at the distinct benefits of running in sync with music over running contra-sync against the music:

• <LI style="COLOR: #333333">Enables the body to be at one with the music and not physically fight against the music rhythms <LI style="COLOR: #333333">Helps control pace during a run. <LI style="COLOR: #333333">Simulate speeds required to achieve run/race goals. <LI style="COLOR: #333333">Reinforces the ‘effort/relax’ aspect of ideal running <LI style="COLOR: #333333">Helps the muscles to relax during a long run resulting in better capillary blood flow and less muscle fatigue.
• Helps you find the mind and body meld that puts you ‘in the zone’.

Many people are extremely disappointed when they take their favourite music out on a run. They are usually filled with excitement and anticipation that their music will drive them better than ever before. Sometimes they hit it ok when a music track is close to the running pace but not very often. Mostly, they find that it does not seem to inspire them or help them as much as they expected. This will invariably be due to the fact that the beat and the rhythms are all wrong for the exercise.
Gary Blake

[Sepukku]

I'm not sure how one works out to Taylor Swift "love story", but I currently use:

Alk3 "Back to Hell"
Alk3 "Armageddon"
Alk3 "I Found Away"
TDWP "HTML Rulez D00D"
The Gaslight Anthem "Senor and the Queen"
Gaslight Anthem "Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?"
Gaslight Anthem "Say I Won't (Recognize)"
Gaslight Anthem "Greatest Expectations"
Gaslight Anthem "Casanova, Baby!"
Legion of Doom "Stupid Kill"
My Chemical Romance "Famous Last Words"
New Found Glory "Forget Everything"
One Dead Three Wounded "Burning Bridges is so 1999"
Rise Against "Paper Wings"
Silverstein "Bleeds No More (Live, from the 18 Candles collection)"
Story of the Year "And the Hero Will Drown"

Im a big fan of live music since I go to shows a lot and hearing a live show gets my blood pumping thinking to actually being there. Alk3/Gaslight Anthem and the Legion of Doom and Story of the Year songs are staples that are always used regardless when I make my lists. I have an alternative playlist with softer, deep songs for when I'm pushing through a hard stretch and need some self-reflection and a reminder of what everything respectively means to me.

The Killers "Sam's Town" Album is always good for working out too, and I generally use "Read My Mind" (Skip 'Uncle Johnny') "Bones" (Skip 'My List') "This River is Wild" and finally "Why Do I Keep Counting" as a cool down for the final 10-15 minutes, as they're still energetic, but not that driving, adrenaline type of energetic, and the final - "Why Do I Keep Counting" builds to a very large cresendo at the end and then has 40ish seconds of cool down.

[Dimmauk]

Eye of the Tiger? On repeat?? Hello???

And Hearts on Fire.
YouTube - Rocky 4 - Training Scene - Hearts On Fire.mpg

and You're the best around.
YouTube - Joe Esposito - You're the Best Around


I guarantee the results

[volcanicweather]

Just curious - how do people run/workout to slow music? I've tried it a few times and it makes me want to go back to sleep...

With that said, I've found "intense" music creates the most "intense" workouts and allows me to push further for that little extra which increases growth. I'm not a huge metal fan, but stuff like Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad, and Anaal Nathrakh really gets the blood flowing.

[Milton]

cbc radio3 has a couple of awesome "sweatin' to the indies" podcasts. you can get them here or on itunes. they're numbers 93, 126 and 178. 4 hours of awesome high-energy canadian independent music with pretty good announcers and interesting features

[Absolutely Virtue]

Just curious - how do people run/workout to slow music? I've tried it a few times and it makes me want to go back to sleep...

With that said, I've found "intense" music creates the most "intense" workouts and allows me to push further for that little extra which increases growth. I'm not a huge metal fan, but stuff like Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad, and Anaal Nathrakh really gets the blood flowing.

I used to listen to nothing but punk and metal and hardcore, or really uptempo poppy stuff like AK3. But that's all stuff I listen to normally. Then one day I decided to listen to really slow stuff, and I haven't gone back. For whatever reason, I seem to like running to slower tempo stuff. My shuffle is full of things like Album Leaf, Idiot Pilot, Sea and Cake, and Bloc Party. I have no idea why, but I have my best runs listening to that.

And while I grew up on Minor Threat, Bad Brains and Public Enemy, I confess that I love working out to that fucking Fort Minor record. Don't tell anyone, lol.

[Tyche]

Just curious - how do people run/workout to slow music? I've tried it a few times and it makes me want to go back to sleep...

With that said, I've found "intense" music creates the most "intense" workouts and allows me to push further for that little extra which increases growth. I'm not a huge metal fan, but stuff like Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad, and Anaal Nathrakh really gets the blood flowing.

My tolerance for real intense (like techno, metal, fast rock, etc) is very low. I cannot stand listening to most of that shit. I'd much rather pop in something like "come on get higher", by Matt Nathanson, and just zone out and run. If I listened to up tempo stuff the entire time, I'd get bored, nauseated, and irritated. I really don't let the music dictate my tempo/speed/cadence near as much as I let it dictate my mental capacity. Hell, to be honest, about 30 minutes into a run, I don't even pay attention to the music. Running, for me, is like being on that thread of half awake, and half asleep. Maybe you have the TV on, and your somewhat awake, but you have no idea what's on TV...you're just kind of...there and unaware. I'm usually in that zone from about 15 minutes into a longer run til about the last mile or so. Just after I shake the pre-race jitters and just before I hit the last leg. That's about the only time I'm even aware of the headphones.

[Jakson]

Kink FM | Kink Aardschok - Play Hard Music Loud!

While I pretend to exercise.

[deshende]

Usually podcasts like This American Life (if I'm going to try and keep myself entertained for a while).

On the music side, anything by Royksopp.

[Darunia]

Started going to the gym a month ago, I found Spineshank to be pretty good; up tempo angry music, great for a full on work out.

[Kohan]

Just curious - how do people run/workout to slow music? I've tried it a few times and it makes me want to go back to sleep...

I don't listen to slow music while I'm working out, either. As aforementioned, it's practically the only place where I don't (unless I'm seeking out a specific mood, for one reason or another). If it doesn't have a good, relatively fast, steady rhythm, it's not for exercise.

Sometimes I do make exceptions, but that stuff is usually listened to in the changing room, or while I'm doing something slower, like walking on a treadmill.

[Senoska]

YouTube - LOLI RIPE - Oniichan rave

This on loop.

[Fou-Lu]

Somebody likes The Fray.



Rocky Theme - Gonna Fly now / Eye of the Tiger



Metal Gear Solid 3 Theme

Metal Gear Solid 4 Father and Son

good taste sir

[alt]

Anything by Saosin or Hawthorne Heights.

Michelle Branch too.

[Azkarin2]

I usually like Ludacris, Eminem, Daft Punk's Alive, and my favorite is probably Call on Me (or any remix). I do have Since You've Been Gone and a few other Kelly Clarkson/chick artists on there, they actually are pretty decent pump up songs.

For long runs, I always enjoyed PodCasts whether it be sports or business related. Music would get too boring.

[Iono]

gayatri mantra or triyambakam mantra

[Null]

I actually like some slow songs when I'm running, like the MGS3 theme and Away From the Sun. It's not like I really use the music's beat to run, that would be silly out of pace with 99% of the worlds songs. I just like something calming or goes with the day, be it Sunny and warm, snowing and cold, night time with the moon and stars out, or rainy and muggy.

[Tythera]

Been going with A7X and Krypteria lately. I can't wait for the new Krypteria CD coming out soon <3