Workout Playlists

I don’t know about you, but music can make a big impact on my workout. For example, when I’m running, I totally notice a difference between a song thats alright versus one that I love. It’s like when you’re driving a car and a song comes on that pumps you up, you might speed up. The same thing happens when I workout.

I feel like some of the songs I workout to are almost embarrassing but they get the job done!

I usually prefer pop, rap, and rock songs. All the other genres (soooo country and Jimmy Buffett?) just have no place in my workout playlist. That’s not totally true, there are a few exceptions, but for the most part, they’re out!

Ya know what’s weird about the rap? I used to listen to rap quite a bit and never minded the cussing and offensive language. But, apparently I’ve aged by like, 40 years because I can’t deal with that stuff anymore. I don’t mind cussing every so often, but some of the gross stuff? Nope, can’t do it. I buy the clean versions now :).

Here are some songs that alway get me moving!

Pop Players

• “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”– Beyonce. There’s no way you don’t love this song still.
• “Imma Be”- Black Eyed Peas
• “I Gotta Feeling”- Black Eyed Peas
• “Till the World Ends”- Britney Spears
• “Up n’ Down”– Britney. Good one on Britney’s latest album.

• “(I’ve Just Begun) Having My Fun”- Britney Bitch
• “London Bridge”- Fergie
• “The Sweet Escape”- Gwen Stefani
• “Trust A Try”- Janet Jackson…sounds weird at first..give it a minute.
• “Feedback”-Janet..Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.
• “Son of a Gun”- Janet.
• “Chop Me Up”- Justin Timberlake…or JTizzle as I call him.
• “SexyBack”-Jtizzle. Does this song ever get old?
• “E.T.”- Katy Perry
• “Blow”- Kesha
• “Rock It Rock”- Kevin Rudolf
• “Teeth”-Lady Gaga. One of my favorites by her! Show me your teeth little monsters!!

• “Bad Romance”-Miss Gaga
• “Judas”-Gaga
• “Human Nature”-Madonna
• “PYT”-Michael Jackson
• “Scream”- MJ
• “Funhouse”- Pink
• “Raise Your Glass”- Pink
• “Gett Off”- Prince
• “Bottle Pop”- Pussycat Dolls
• “I Like That”– Richard Vission & Static Revenger- This song is awesome! First heard this song in a TurboFire class, so great!

• “Untouched”- The Veronicas
• “The Way I Are”- Timbaland
• “Upgrade You”-Beyonce
• “Green Light”- John Legend
• “Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg”- TLC
• “If I Had No Loot”- Tony! Toni! Tone!
• “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love”-Usher
• “Faded”– SoulDecision. Someone tell me you remember this song?? Ahhh takes me way back.

• “369”- Cupid
• “Dragostea Din Tei”- O-Zone
• “Hello”- Martin Solveig
• “Without You”-David Guetta ft. Usher
• “I Like the Way”- BodyRockers

Dirty Rap (I’m sure the true rap connoisseur would not qualify half of this as rap, probably pop, but it’s rap to me! P.S. I used to listen to a lot of rap.)

• “Shoulder Lean” Young Dro
• “How Do You Want It” Tupac
• “Rompe” Daddy Yankee
• “Bottoms Up”- Trey Songz. I love this song. It reminds me of yoga oddly enough.

• “Hit the Floor”- Twista
• “Bojangles”- Pitbull
• “The Seed”- The Roots
• “She’s Freaky”- Pitbull
• “Grillz”- Nelly
• “She Wants to Move”- NERD
• “Bossy”-Kelis. So sassy I love it.

• “99 Problems”- Jay-Z
• “Church”-T-Pain
• “Go Girl”– Pitbull. I love this song. It gets me goin’ when I’m running…go girl!

• “Freek a Leek”- Petey Pablo
• “B.O.B.”-OutKast
• “Gossip Folks”- Missy Elliot. Where has been these days? I miss her.
• “Get Back”- Ludacris
• “Kanye’s Workout Plan”- Kanye West. This song cracks me up.
• “Lose Yourself”- Eminem
• “When the Last Time”- Clipse
• “Boyz”- MIA
• “Paper Planes”- MIA

Headbangers (Yes, I’ve been listening to a lot of Lithium on SiriusXM).

• “Love in an Elevator”- Aerosmith
• “Song 2”-Blur
• “Crazy Bitch”-Buckcherry
• “One Way Ticket”- The Darkness
• “Lay Me Down”- The Dirty Heads
• “Hey Man Nice Shot”- Filter
• “Shimmer”-Fuel
• “Welcome to the Jungle”- Guns and Roses
• “I Hate Myself for Loving You”- Joan Jett
• “Enter Sandman”– Metallica. Because it’s Metallica.

• “Fat Bottomed Girls”– Queen. Makes me feel good when I’m workin’ out…thinkin’ about my fat bottom.

• “April 29, 1992 (Miami)”-Sublime. Not really a headbanger…but pretty cool..mostly because it says “Clevelaaaaaand Ohio!”
• “Slither”- Velvet Revolver
• “Cherry Pie”- Warrant. Okay, this is the song we played at our wedding when my husband threw the garter. Cherry Pie.
• “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”– Dropkick Murphys. Obviously this song gets me pumped for Boston!

• “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race”-Fallout Boy
• “Paralyzer”-Finger Elevan
• “She”- Green Day
• “The Cave”– Mumford and Sons. I love this song.

The Randoms

• “Walk Like A Man”- Frankie Valli
• “Dance to the Music”- Sly and the Family Stone
• “Walk Like An Egyptian”- The Bangles
• “Juicy”- Better Than Ezra
• “We Didn’t Start the Fire”- Billy Joel
• “The Distance”- Cake.
• “Run Through the Jungle”- Creedence Clearwater Revival
• “Runaround Sue”- Dion
• “Already Gone”- The Eagles
• “Take Me Home Tonight”- Eddie Money
• “That’s All”-Genesis
• “Got My Mind Set on You”-George Harrison
• “Centerfold”- The J. Geils Band
• “Centerfield”– John Fogerty. This song reminds me of high school softball…so nostalgic! Again, that’s centerFIELD not centerFOLD :).

• “Your Love”- The Outfield
• “Honky Tonk Woman”- The Rolling Stones
• “Beast of Burden”- The Stones
• “Bad Girls”- Donna Summer
• “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”- Cage the Elephant
• “Between Two Lungs”– Florence and the Machine. Miss Florence is a goddess.

• “Pumped Up Kicks”- Foster the People
• “Creator”- Santogold
• “Real Good Man”- Tim McGraw
• “Online”-Brad Paisley. This song reminds me of myself because I played the tuba in middle school :). Oh and George from Seinfeld’s in the video so you gotta love it.

Those are just some of the songs that I love to workout to. The list is constantly growing!

 

What are songs you have to have on your workout playlist?