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   John on February 6, 2013 at 2:52 pm

   Love this Barbara! I’ve actually added a new language to my class… PitBull 🙂

   Younger participants sure appreciate hearing it as it comes as quite a surprise in one of my classes.

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   Melissa Hunter on February 6, 2013 at 6:20 pm

   Check out Pitbull ft Shakira – Song title: Get it Started – Great tune if you haven’t already heard it.

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   Jennifer Ashbrook on February 6, 2013 at 7:36 pm

   So many to choose from! Here are a few of my recent favorites:

   Fallout Boy – I Don’t Care – Great, strong, climbing song – love the line “The best of us can find happiness in misery.”

   Snow Patrol – Shut Your Eyes – great for warm-up or steady, moderate aerobic effort

   Darude – Sandstorm – Great song for longer interval or over/under efforts. Maintain strong steady pace (under), listen for music to build, then ride hard (over) during the stronger portion of the song – first over at about 2:45 for ~ 1:00, second at about 5:00, a little longer.

   Foo Fighters – Pretender – Great for standing sprint intervals. Song starts quiet, good to set up the effort; add some resistance, find a steady moderately challenging climb, at the chorus, add resistance, stand and GO! Ease off and recover between standing sprints.

   Nickelback – Burn it to the Ground (has some explicit language) Great driving beat for a good hard climb.

   Elvis vs JXL – A Little Less Conversation – just a fun remix of a recognizable Elvis tune.

   John O’Callaghan feat. Sarah Howells – Find Yourself

   Volbeat – A Warrior’s Call, another blood pumping strong climbing tune.

   Morgan Page featuring Lissie – The Longest Road (Deadmau5 Remix Radio edit)

   Eiffel 65 – Move Your Body

   Tiesto – I am Strong

   Elbow – One Day Like This

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   Vivienne Naylor on February 7, 2013 at 9:41 am

   Well, I have to vote Chicane’s Saltwater as one of my most fave motivating tracks.

   I fancy I’d never heard it before attending 2007’s WSSC with my daughter (a mommy and me gift to the two of us as her present on graduating vet. school) I don’t think my legs ever moved so strong for so long before or since.

   Of course, I’m the person who had a couple of fairly new members in my class yesterday (been a grand total of twice) wearing their ipods because they didn’t like my music. Don’t listen to me!!

   Vivienne

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   Backtomobay on February 8, 2013 at 12:44 pm

   Vivienne, wow, how incredibly rude of those two members. And I thought that the woman that moved her bike off the floor away from my class and did her own 20 minutes of cycling was rude. People are so strange.

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   Vivienne Naylor on February 11, 2013 at 7:13 am

   Don’t you worry Backtomobay…..I have plenty of coping skills up mu sleeve (which likely won’t be necessary) We have a sort of fitness challenge going on at my gym right now whereby management is trying to market group ex. classes as an add-on. Good in theory…..but with unintended consequences of folk wandering into class without a background of group ex. etiquette. That’s my hope, anyway.

   However, should this become an ongoing issue, I have a few playlists up my sleeve that could be filed under “If you thought THAT was bad…”….designed to give my regulars a laugh as much as anything else.

   I’m going to keep an eye on this thread, mind, as when it comes to choosing the music that goes with my classes I couldn’t rightly tell you whether it’s Hot or New (unless someone else clues me in), just that it *goes*……. and that the majority of my members exclaim at the awesomeness of what I put together 😉

   Vivienne

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   Saba AlJuraifani on February 17, 2013 at 3:46 pm

   Found those two recently, great for hills:

   Jack Beats-About to Get Fresh (instrumental)- quiets down twice then comes back strong, great for transitioning between seated and standing climb.

   Jack Beats- Storm (instrumental)- seated climb, soft beat, good for focusing on technique.

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