I have a very difficult time finding good music to work out to. I like to get my cardio on while listening to cheesy pop music. But I am very, very picky about my cheesy pop music. So, listening to Pink is pretty much the\u00a0pinnacle\u00a0of workout happiness. And listening to Katy Perry makes me want to run right straight into a brick wall.<\/p>\n
It’s a hard knock life, for me.<\/p>\n
Now that my knee doesn’t constantly feel like it has bits of broken glass stuck in it, I’ve been trying to hit the gym every day. I alternate 20 minutes on the treadmill with lifting days. But, even on days that I lift, I still run for 5-10 minutes to help build up my stamina and get myself into that happy workout mood. Which is all just a boring way of saying that my 27 song workout playlist just isn’t cutting it anymore. I still like most of the music… but variety is the spice of life and I feel like I’ve been spoon-feeding myself gruel for quite some time now.<\/p>\n
Pandora, which is normally so helpful in finding similar music does me no good. It can’t differentiate between Top 40 crap and Top 40 crap… that I like.<\/p>\n
So, because I know that you are all wicked smart and dying to help a girl out, I turn to the internets. I should point out that I also enjoy working out to punk rock and other decent music. But I like to mostly stick to the bubblegum as I tend to eventually associate my workout music with, well, working out. I like to hear a song and have it instantly get my blood pumping. That doesn’t happen so much when I listen to it outside of the gym.<\/p>\n
This is a sampling of what’s currently on there:<\/p>\n
Pink – Stupid Girls
\nPink – So What
\nAvril Lavigne – Girlfriend
\nDepeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
\nSurvivor – Eye of the Tiger
\nFlogging Molly – Devil’s Dance Floor
\nBouncing Souls – Ol\u00e9
\nPetshop Boys – Always on my Mind
\nCandy Butchers – Sparkle
\nKelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
\nBilly Bragg – When Will I See You Again (a bizarre workout choice, but the tempo is just perfect)
\nK’Naan – Take a Minute<\/p>\n
What do you all like to work out to? Any good music to recommend? \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a very difficult time finding good music to work out to. I like to get my cardio on while listening to cheesy pop music. But I am very,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-random","category-weight-loss"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-nK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}