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Workout Music


A little background before I discuss the ultimate point in the thread topic:  from 2007, when I moved to Brooklyn, through July of this year, my exercise has been relatively simple - walking home from work.  Sounds strange, and depending on how far you live from your office, ultimately ineffective.  But when I lived in Brooklyn, I lived just over 3 miles from my apartment, so I walked @ 15 miles/week in addition to whatever other walking I did.  That total actually doubled when I moved to Manhattan, as I lived and worked pretty much on opposite sides of the island.  6.5 miles a day.

A few weeks ago, I moved to Queens, and decided that as part of that, I would up the ante by joining a gym and engaging in more rigorous exercise (my soreness today is a testament). 

So the ultimate point?  What is the best workout music?  Watching a lot of people working out, seems like it would either be heavy metal or just plain television...but my retort is the winner of that distinction would be Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (particularly a live album).  I noticed yesterday that their beats per minute almost directly correlate with the pace of jogging at 5.5 miles per hour.  Also, and most importantly, the songs keep going and going, so when you promise yourself you will slow down at the end of the song, that's not a quick resolution.  And finally, how can you justify quitting when the Boss just won't quit.  Try Hammersmith Odeon '75 when you are at the gym next time out.  Start out walking on the treadmill to warm up during the solo Thunder Road, pick up the pace at the start of Tenth Avenue Freezeout, and you'll keep yourself going for quite a while the rest of the way.

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Whenever I go running, my go-to music is either The Clash's The Story of the Clash or Rage Against the Machine's The Battle of Los Angeles. Both have the right beats for the most part, and they keep me pumped up.

PUMPED UP!

(Not often I can work in a 1989 Saturday Night Live reference.)

Otherwise, I used to have a playlist of peppy Rolling Stones songs, too, which included "Brown Sugar," "Stray Cat Blues," "Flight 505," "Rocks Off," and a few others.

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I've been trying a bunch of stuff out...Foo Fighters worked pretty well yesterday, and TV on the Radio was alright when they were upbeat. Pearl Jam obviously works, especially the live shows.

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