Category: Music

  • Calculating BPM for #FITunes

    (Reposted from National Running Day discussion board on Facebook.) When I workout to music, I like to fall into sync with the beat. For example, it’s very natural for me to take about 170 steps per minute when I run, so I like to listen to music that has 170 BPM (beats per minute) like…

  • Walk 100 Steps per Minute

    Researchers say walking 100 steps/minute counts as “moderate” exercise: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142618.php They recommend using a pedometer and making sure you get 3000 steps in 30 minutes. Another way you can keep up the pace: walk to music! I use my iPod to train at my target pace, and you can, too! Here are 10 songs, 40…

  • Workout Tunes + Video Break: No Treadmills Required

    I laughed out loud at this because I run to this song all the time. In fact, according to iTunes, I’ve played it well over 259 times. The song is Misirlou by Dick Dale & The Del-Tones, and you probably recognize it if you’re a fan of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. If you’re a fast…

  • Workout Tunes: Green Day Sprint

    I love finishing out a run by sprinting to this song: American Idiot by Green Day Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow. For that’s enough to argue. Don’t want to…

  • Workout Tunes: Ode to Body Image Dysfunction

    An easy song to run to, Posters has a nice pace for the beginning of a long run: Posters by Jack Johnson Looking at herself but wishing she was someone else Because the body of the doll it don’t look like hers at all So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws…

  • Workout Tunes: National Anthem for Personal Trainers

    My first workout song of the week is Make You Feel Better by Red Hot Chili Peppers.  I always thought “we are the ones that will make you feel better” were perfect lyrics for a personal trainer national anthem. I said now, I’ll take it It’s better for you Somehow we’ll make it ‘Cause that’s what…