#powersongs

App: Nike Training Club Chosen Challenge: “Get Lean”, “Advanced” Day: 9 Week: 2 of 4

Do you have a power song playlist?

When you’re struggling to work out sometimes listening to a great batch of songs really motivates people to just get the workout done! I have listed the top 5 tracks I used to push through the jump squats during the True Condition routine:

“Bridges” - Broods

“Howlin’ for you” - The Black Keys

“Happy Idiot” - TV on the Radio

“Punching in a dream” - Naked and Famous

“Tongues” ft. Kopps - Joywave

Motivation running at a cool 80%, the NTC app allowed me to play my music easily over the app. Bonus points especially since a lot of us use our earphones to drone out the awful choice of music they play over the gym sound system...

Besides extreme stubbornness to keep going, there’s nothing that can keep your legs moving or give you that extra boost you need quite like a good power song. When I’m running long distances, I divide my running music into 2 playlists; a regular paced one, and one for the last 2 or 3 kilometers, chuck full of cheesy motivational yougotthiskeepgoing tunes to drag you across the finish line. There’s no specific genre or type of music on my lists; it’s a smorgasbord of old & new tunes from all across the board, some even slightly sort of possibly embarrassing but hey, whatever works !

Listen to my Spotify Running playlist here

These are a few of my favourites:

Month Of May-Arcade Fire Perfect beat for a faster paced run. Plus you can imagine the entire band (there’s a lot of ‘em) cheering you on from the sidelines.

I Love It- Icona Pop Does this one even need an explanation ? It might only work for the ladies, but man does it work ! I usually have to stop myself from yelling along while I sprint down the road. Only being out of breath & looking a bit odd keeps me from doing so. Thanks breath for saving me from looking like a crazy (crazy awesome ?) lady.

Burn It Down - AWOLNATION I love blasting this song when I want to go for a bit of a sprint. It’s got crazy energy and the chorus is a great running mantra: “Burn it down baby burn it burn burn it down” aaaaand repeat

POWER- Kanye West The start of this song really gets the gears going. Really any Kanye song goes; Stronger is another all-time running favourite.

Kinslayer-Nightwish Unless you lived somewhere in Europe during the goth revival of the late 90′s, chances are you don’t know Nightwish & are very skeptical of this song. What can I say, it works for me !

We Own It- 2 Chainz, Whiz Khalifa A recent favourite, when I get to a point where putting one foot in front of the other is becoming a bit of an issue, this song keeps me going.

This is for all you scorned women! I recently have gone through a breakup and this song is for you girls who are done slouching around and ready to raise those manicured middle fingers up and tell him "Fuck off!" Power song! Even though it is a man singing it, you can easily take the lyrics and relate them to you and what you are going through. 

Stay strong, Pretties! I know I will!

::LUNES DE POWER SONGS PRESENTA::

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