30 Songs that will get you moving

BEHOLD THE POWER OF MUSIC!!

I keep this post (“All the inspiration you will ever need“) from nerdfitness in my inbox at all times. Not only is the post in-itself great, but there are some amazing suggestions in the comment section. When I am having a bad day at work, or am feeling sluggish when I get home, I pull this up and go through the inspiration until I am ready to get moving!

But I also want to go a step farther — I want to make a full playlist of inspirational music and music that gets me moving. Let’s see what I come up with, and thank you to Nerdfitness for helping to provide some of these songs, too. Here’s what I got so far:

Diva – Beyonce Knowles
Rocking the Suburbs – Ben Folds Five
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it) –  Beyonce Knowles
Wanted Dead or Alive –  Bon Jovi
It’s my life –  Bon Jovi
Make a Man (out of you) –  Mulan
Livin on a Prayer – Bon Jovi
The Immigrant Song –  Led Zepplin
If I had you –  Adam Lambert
I need a Hero –  Bonnie Tyler
Hall om mig –  Nanne Groenvall
Ain’t no other man –  Christina Aguilera
Cold War Transmissions –  Anberlin
Dota –  Basshunter
Don’t stop the Music –  Rihanna
Stronger – Kanye West
Eye of the Tiger –  Survivor
Duel of the Fates – John Williams
I will not bow  – breaking benjamin
Lose yourself  –  Eminem
Through the Fire and the Flames –  Dragonforce
American Idiot –  Green Day
Blow –  Ke$ha
3 –  Britney Spears
Evacuate the Dancefloor –  Cascada
Feel good, inc –  Gorillaz
Seven Nation Army  – White Stripes
Pokemon theme song — who the heck knows?!
Mona Lisa Overdrive — Juno Reactor
Sleep Now in the Fire — Rage Against the Machine

I admit that many of the songs are geared towards those with a more feminine persusaion BUT I do plan to add more to it later. If you’re interested, keep track of the spreadsheet   I’ve got going.

Running, Day 1

So.

Anthony calls today the learning run, and I think he is right in that regard. I learned lots of thing in my run this morning.

1) Hills suck.

I live in Georgia, and if there is one thing that is true about the landscape here, there are hills. Lots and lots of hills.

Running up hill, and even running down hill is a pain in the ass, especially when your knee is hurting.

To solve this, Anthony and I are gonna explore different paths. I think that East College, the road we live on, is more or less straight, so we might do just up and down there.

2) I need to run in pants or gouchos

One of the things I most look forward two when I shirk my weight is having a pair of thighs that DO NOT RUB TOGETHER. When they get sweaty, they chafe, and that shit burns so bad.

To solve this, I might end up doing running in my gray yoga pants, at least until I get rid of some more weight. On the plus side of the clothing issue, though, the Blue Spirits have worked out very well.

3) Congo Fury is an excellent pacing song.

I made a playlist for running last night, and on it I put Conga Fury by Juno Reactor on it. When I played my moosac, I noticed that I was keeping time with the music. The faster the song, the faster I would go — and get worn out more quickly. Slower songs would be areas where I did my running a lot better. I found a good balance, though, with the Conga Fury song.

I even counted it out to myself. It’s a slow pace, but one that got my heart rate going without wearing me out.

I’m going to look into sorting my playlist by BPM to see if that helps me pace myself a little better. I know that pacing is something that I have issues with, and something that I want to work on. There is a link here that I’m gonna see if I can do.

4) I did the wrong goddamn program.

I mentioned last night that my friend Sam had suggested a program to me, run a 10K in 13 weeks. Well, it turns out that I was wrong.

It’s run a 5K in 9 weeks.

Duh.

So Anthony and I ran for 1m 30s and walked for 2m, eight times…which is actually week 2 of the program that I wanted to do.

Here’s the 5K in 9 week program.

Needless to say that I feel better about the run not going as well as I had hoped or wanted. Considering I was doing the second week’s workout, and that I did a lot of it uphill, I actually feel pretty good about the run today.

I feel pretty freaking good, just generally. I thought I would be dog tired after the run, but I am feeling a lot more energized, and just have that sorta glowy feeling of happiness. I’m definitely looking forward to doing this more often.

Now… onto some less-happy-making things: homework.

Gina

P.S. Here’s Anthony and me on our way home from the run this morning

Trust me, we look much happier than we are.