Summertime Workout Music (My Current Playlists)
*With all the below playlists, they songs are in oldest-to-newest order, which is annoying, but I can’t figure out how to reverse them. Scroll to the bottom of each for my current favorite songs.
What I’m listening to while working out by myself or running:
This playlist also lives in the right sidebar of my blog (scroll down). I constantly update it—adding songs I like, deleting ones I’ve overplayed. I pretty much only workout to EDM. I know the music genre keeps getting associated with teenagers wearing neon at raves and throwing up on each other or overdosing, but the media neglects to highlight how perfect it is for pumping you up during a workout. There’s a healthy side of EDM, too.
What I’m playing during my Btone megaformer classes:
When you’re teaching group fitness classes, you have to keep in mind that not everyone is going to have the same taste in music as you. I still play some EDM, but only the lighter stuff—I avoid extremes (I’m not, for example, going to play Skrillex in class haha). Also, even though Btone is an INTENSE workout, your movements are slow and controlled—you’re not running laps or doing burpees as fast as you can. I keep that in mind when adding songs to this playlist.
I try to find fun, upbeat music that hasn’t been too brutally overplayed on the radio (remixes are great). A few good Top 20-esque songs are fine (you’ll notice some on this playlist), but as someone who has taken a bazillion group fitness classes, I know it’s nice to hear songs that you haven’t already heard 14 times that day. I remember last summer when Avicii’s Wake Me Up came out…holy shit. It was getting to the point where I was about to walk out of spinning class if one more instructor played it. That being said, I’m currently obsessed with Tiesto’s Wasted, so suck it up, students, I’m playing that shit all summer.
What I’m playing during my bootcamp (Torch) classes:
You’ll notice this playlist is similar to the music I workout to on my own—because it’s a high intensity class, I like using EDM and songs with fast, heavy beats. I, of course, take them from R to PG-13 though. A great resource for finding songs to play in this class (and my Tone class), is Spotify. Not only can you search songs/artists on Spotify, but you can search through people’s playlists (as long as they’re public). I follow and search through SoulCycle and Barry’s Bootcamp instructors’ playlists and am always discovering awesome music this way.
Ok, now that I’ve shared three whole playlists with you, the least you can do is share a song or two with me in the comments section?
Happy listening!
