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• Sunday, June 17, 2007 12:01 PM

  Crappy gym music: I hear you

  I complain about this to the trainers regularly. It's especially bad in areobics classes where the instructors favor the Britney-Aguilera-Madonna-Disco mix. I avoid those instructors like the plague now. High level aerobics are hard enough without feeling like the body is fighting with the music. Call me sensitive.

  On the other hand, some instructors routinely pick excellent music and their classes are a pleasure. There are just too few of them.

  And while the research my be technically correct that genre doesn't matter, i *do* believe that good workout music has a certain charactersitic that can be quantified, with the right fingerprint, descriptors and PCA program.

  Here are my choices for good workout music that I have on my ipod:

  Jump in the Line (Baseketball vrsion) - Aerobics

  Seven Nation Army (White Stripes) - Tread, elliptical, spin

  The Way - Aerobics

  Further on Down the Road (Eric Clapton) -Tread, elliptical, Spin

  Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum) - Tread, elliptical, spin

  I Feel Like a Woman (Shania Twain)- Aerobics

  Volcano (Jimmy Buffet)- abs

  Baby, You Can Drive My Car (Beatles) - Toning, abs

  Legs (ZZ Top)- tread, elliptical, spin

  Jessica (Allman Brothers)- tread, elliptical, spin

  Mas Qui Nada (Brazil 66)- tread, elliptical, spin

  Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones) - Anything aerobic

  Short Skirt, Long Jacket (Cake) - toning, abs

  Lake Charles (Lucinda Williams) - cool down

  After 45 minutes of these tunes, you will feel refreshed and energized as opposed to 45 minutes of the electronica pop princesses who will make you feel like they've "Hit you baby one more time."

  —redkimba Read redkimba's other letters
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