In my bid to get fit and lose 70 pounds I'm looking for some music recommendations to put on my iPod for the aerobic phase of my fitness program. I spend upwards of an hour on my Schwinn AirDyne, and I need some new music to keep me going. Bear in mind that I'm 51, have not listened to the radio except for NPR for 20 years, and cannot stand Rap
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Queen
T. Rex ("Children of the Revolution" is a great pump-up song)
Avenged Sevenfold (for a band marketed as "metal", they're amazing -- super talented and they draw from everything from musicals to opera to chant to country to good old straight-up rock)
Paramore and Bif Naked (because every girl needs some growly-poppy up-with-chicks music sometimes)
:-)
Also: the Trainspotting soundtrack is pure awesome.
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My suggestion is
1. ABBA, if you can stand it. Or, the alternative British Invasion music from the mid-80's. MTV was full of it.
2. Give Rap a chance! I hated rap too, but our step aerobics class used it and it works! Nothing made me pump like Who let the dogs out. Don't use R&B or hip hop, you need non-violent early 1990's rap, like Will Smith, Run DMC etc. If rap is too hardcore, try dance/rave.
3. Non-vocal Industrial from the late 90's. It can be screechy, but it fires you up. You can probably find some old cheap industrial compilations.
Ask the nice people at the record store. Or you can check out a bunch of stuff at the library and test it in a CD player before you buy iTunes.
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Rap does have the good beat needed to get motivated, I agree. I just got exposed to so much of the nasty hardcore stuff at my now former job (airmen just out of Basic training, a few fresh out of the 'hood) I steer clear of it.
I might have some Industrial via an old soundtrack or two.
Thanks!
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Dave
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If I ever make it back to the gym, I'll try to listen to what they play there. ;)
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