Monster Month Playlist

As we head into the final training push of fall marathon season, songs with a little edge are necessary to get through those “must suck it up” moments.  This playlist has a little edge, a little cheese, and a touch of indie for good measure.  There is something old, something new, something borrowed, and something for you…I hope!  The last four songs don’t really fit with the rest of the playlist, but they are good stretching songs, and I included them because they are my favorites from the previously mentioned 25 songs you can download from Urban Outfitters for free—yup zero dinero. 

I hope you enjoy! Oh, and just as an aside, for those of you not training for an Oct/Nov ‘thon, but feeling the spirit, shoot for a May marathon, there will be almost twice as many May marathons in 2010 as Oct. 2009 marathons, so plenty of variety!

Monster Month Playlist!

Thank You by Jay-Z

Kill Joy by N.E.R.D.

Life of a Star by Mims

On to the Next One by Jay Z

Off That (feat. Drake) by Jay Z

B.O.B by Outkast

Work by Ciara

No Sex for Ben  by the Rapture

Big things poppin   by TI

Church T by Pain

Hot Chicks-The DNC

Do it Well by J Lo

Universal Mind Control by Common

Low by flo rider

Hotel Room Service by Pitbull

Hot Mess by Cobrastarship

Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Standing at the Station by Ty Segall

Surprise Hotel by Fools Gold

Dancehall by Sean Bones

Caterpillar Playground  by Nurses

Work out Wrap Up and Change it Up Playlist

I am glad you are all are as excited as me about the Physique 57 Workout DVD Giveaway!  I am once again jealous of my own contest!  Don’t forget to enter by Friday

Weekly Workout Wrap Up

The AM workout things has been essential this last week, and I realized today that the switch has finally become the norm.  It took about a week, but now I am ready to lace up my sneakers and hit the road in the morning.  That’s not to say my body doesn’t take a while to warm up, but at least I no longer want to putz around on the computer or check my texts messages: I get up, get out of bed, and get to business. 

Monday: 2 mile walk to work?

Tuesday: 4 mile run, Crossfit LIC

Wednesday:  30 minutes elliptical, 10 minute rower, 2 sets or 24 lunges with bar, 100 sit-ups of various forms on stability ball

Thursday: 4 mile run, Crossfit LIC

Friday: 30-day shred, level 2

Saturday: 30 day shred-level 2, 20 minute run in the rain

Sunday: 7 mile run.  This was one of the worst runs in my recent memory. It was not particularly hard, but painfully slow.  My body just refused to move at a normal pace. I ran for almost 90 minutes and only made it 7 miles.  Since I had to be at work at 10am, there was a time constraint, so I had planned on running faster. At least on  there was a moment of inspiration,  was that when I was running back through the neighborhood, I saw a TON of people taking advantage of the Yoga Room’s free yoga class on the piers.  Even in the rain, they were out there ohming it!

I have lots to say about running, sometimes you don’t have great days, others are amazing, most are a challenging yet fulfilling…at least when you get to stop. In any case, I plan to do 15 miles or bust on Wednesday, since I don’t have to be at work until 11AM.  Wish me luck!

I will save the rest of my running thoughts for another post.  For now, I want to share one of the best ways to get me motivated and excited to run, a new playlist!

This was inspired by some of the Crossfit music.

It is quite the eclectic mix of alternative/rock and hip hop, but it kind of works.  It builds pretty quickly and then lets you settle into a more steady pace.  Enjoy! 

1. Take Me Out-Franz Ferdinand
2. Banquet–Bloc Party
3. Hold On-Kt Tunstall
4. DOA–Jay z
5. Lose Yourself–Eminem
6. Without Me–Eminem
7. Girls-Beastie Boys
8. Paralyzer Finger—11
9. Going Away to College—Blink 182
10. The Seed-The Roots
11. All the Small Things-Blink 182
12. Work it Out-Jurassic 5 and DMB
13. I Will Survive-Cake
14. I turn my camera on-spoon
15. Seven Nation Army-White Stripes
16. 40T—Franz Ferdinand

Musicspiration

 

I feel like it has been so long since I posted a playlist of my own!

I have to say, I don’t have a real playlist to share, but I have come across some great sources of workout musicspiration!

First off, you all know how much I love digging through the iTunes store for hidden treasure good songs and mixes.

First I found Christian Sirano’s (project runway) celebrity playlist.  Not surprisingly, it rocks.  Besides, there’s been a hot tranny mess shaped hole in my heart since that season ended.  My top pick: Unstoppable by Kat DeLuna

Next, I discovered the Essential Jay Z.  I mean, is there really such a thing as non-essential Jay-Z?  I think I once heard him described as cool as ice in a glass that melts slowly, corny but fitting. Anywho, I am kind of in love with the list, but if I had to pick the most workout worthy, I would go with:

• Dirt Off Your Shoulder
• Izzo
• I Just Wanna Love You
• Crazy in Love 
• Big Pimpin
• Show me What You Got
• Can I Get a
• Fiesta

BEATS FROM BLOGS

Beyond iTunes, I saw this fabulous playlist on More Than Mary!

Gliving.tv has been one of my favorite websites for years, and as I was catching up the other day, I came across not 1, but 3 great playlists on Week 5 of Jana’s Thrive Diet Body Design Fitness Challenge post.  Jana has a long list of suggested tunes for cardio, weight circuit and calm workouts.  Each mix is available on iTunes.

Top picks—there are so many, it’s hard to pick.  And I have to say, I don’t know all of the indie bands!:

• Gotta Get Thru This-Daniel Bedingfield-Blast from the Past! (cardio)
• Getting Down-The Kills (strength)
• What New York Used to Be—The Kills (strength)
• Leave Me Alone—Natalie Imbruglia (calm)
• They-Jem (calm)

And Tanya from Iateapie and Inthegym is always a source of great music.  I really love her Knock Out Workout Playlist I hadn’t heard of any of the songs, but I love me some hard core hip hop, definitely a nice change of pace–perfect for strength or agression releasing workouts!  Here’s the list (my top picks in bold, but you call listen to the songs all the way through on Tanya’s blog.

Tracklist

• Jackie Chain ft. Kid Cudi. Rollin’.
• Kardinal Offishall ft. Lindo P. Burnt.
• David Banner. K.O.
• The Knux. Bang! Bang!
• Hollywood Holt. Hollywood.
• Obie Trice. Wanna Know.
• David Banner, UGK & Kandi. Suicide Doors.
• Jay-Z. D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune).
• Maino. Brooklyn Salute, Pt. 1.
• Special Ed. I Got It Made.
• Kardinal Offishall. Lighter!

TRAVEL BEATS

And, of course, no one expands my musical horizons more than Miss Gena who made me two great mixes before I left for my trip. While they aren’t really workout mixes, I have become pretty obsessed with a few of the songs and they are currently workout  playlist staples:

• Summertime Clothes-Animal Collective
• Australia—the Shins
• The Day We Caught the Train—Ocean Colour Scene
• Sleepyhead—Passion Pit

Finally, while on the plane I listened to several of the cd options.  I think I listened to ROOTS by Flo Rider at least three times in entirety. The whole album is workout worthy, but Jump really gets me going.

Playlist for the Meatheads

This playlist was inspired by the weight room.  You know, the weight rooms that you walk into and feel like you might choke on the testosterone.  While I am not really interested in other people at the gym–because I usually look like about as appealing as a sweat sock and I am pretty focused when I work out, there are certain weight rooms that can be intimidating and make me self-concious.  I have to get my mind right to be able to focus on mt workout while the guys next to me are lifting up there shirts and checking out their abs and practically kissing their flexed biceps.    JK boys, I respect anyone who cares about their body enough to work on it, but I don’t need directions to the beach, nor am I hoping to check out the gun show.

So this mix is a ton of songs I play in the weight room or when doing strength in general, actually this  playlist is about 4 hours, enough for like three weeks of strength workouts.  They help me get my bad ass on, and actually, I just love cheesy hip hop like no other.

For some reason, itunes refused to publish my list as a mix, maybe that is because 95% are explicit. If you are not into explicatives, this is not the mix for you.  But I figure, I recommend Girl Talk, and it doesn’t get much more awesomely inappropriate than that!

Enjoy, I guarantee these will make you feel right at home with sexy Mr. Six Pack next to you.

1. Gin and Juice-Snoop
2. Still Not a Player-Big Pun
3. Right Thurr-Chingy
4. Tipsy-JKwon
5. Hot in Herre-Nelly
6. Fiesta-r kelly
7. Stunt 101-Gunit
8. I love college-asher roth
9. Come to me-Diddy
10. I do-chingy
11. Stand Up-Luda
12. Tell Me-Diddy
13. Magic Stick-Lil Kim
14. Lighters Up-Lil Kim
15. Player’s Anthem-big pun
16. This is Why I’m Hot-Mims
17. Get it Shawty–Lloyd
18. Shim Shimmy Ya-ODB
19. Thong Song-Sisqo
20. Poppin Them Things-G-Unit
21. Touch it-Busta Rhymes
22. Just a Lil Bit-50 Cent
23. In da Club-50 Cent
24. This is How We Do-Big Thymers
25. Where the Party At-Jagged Edge
26. Freek a Leek-Petey Pablo
27. Breathe-Fabulous
28. How We Do-The Game
29. It’s Going Down-Ruff Riders
30. Still Not a Player-Big Punisher
31. Shake Ya Ass-Mystikal
32. Crush on You-Big Pun/Lil Kim
33. Party Like a Rockstar-Pet Shop Boys
34. Back that Azz Up-juvenille, lil wayne
35. All about the benjamins-Puffy
36. I think they like me-dem franchise boys
37. Bring Em Out-TI
38. Walk It Out-Unk
39. Get Low-Lil Jon
40. Damn-YoungBloodz
41. Salt Shaker-Ying Yang Twins
42. I wish-skee-lo
43. Drop It Like It’s Hot-Snoop
44. Phenomenon-LL Cool J
45. I’m Sorry Miss Jackson-Outkast
46. Hip Hop Is Dead-Nas
47. The Next Movement-The Roots

Playlist:Bring Out the Inner Sexy…

…by rockin out to the inner awesome

Liz is back with her highly anticipated playlist, if you need a sexy-confidence boost refresher, check out her original post!

As promised, here is your first “I am awesome, and everybody wants me” playlist.  My computer died recently so it’s prevented too much recent music from making it’s way onto the list, but below are a bunch of tried and true songs that always make me feel good and want to rock out.  If you have any additional suggestions, please send them along!  Enjoy!

You can access the whole mix at itunes.

While this is a beginner mix, we guarantee it will have your milkshake bringing 85-90% of the boys to the yard.

Crazy Bitch – Buckcherry

When I Grow Up – The Pussycat Dolls

Maneater – Nelly Furtado

The Way I Are – Timaland

Womanizer – Britney Spears

Wind it Up – Gwen Stefani

My Humps – Black Eyed Peas

Feedback – Janet Jackson

Goodies – Ciara

Lady – Lenny Kravitz

Circus – Britney Spears

I Kissed a Girl – Katy Perry

So What – Pink

Kiss – Prince

In the Ayer – Flo Rida

Just Dance – Lady Gaga

Tainted Love – Soft Cell

Shoop – Salt N Peppa

If U Seek Amy – Britney Spears

Piece of Me – Britney Spears

Gold Digger – Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx

Hey Sexy Lady – Shaggy

I Love Rock ‘N Roll – Joan Jett

Keeps Gettin’ Better – Christina Aguilera

Poker Face – Lady Gaga

Right Round – Flo Rida