RunHundred.com compiles list of 2009's top 10 workout songs
Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: Arts & Society
By Storm Sebastian
Staff Writer
It's a weekday afternoon and you've just finished class- time to hit the gym for some stress relief. When you walk into the gym, you see several people getting in some cardio on the treadmills, working up a sweat on the ellipticals and toning up with weights.
While each workout is personal and different, these fitness enthusiasts all have one thing in common: each one is wearing a pair of tiny ear buds that connects them to the music flowing from their iPods. But what kinds of songs help to get the majority of these gym rats pumped up and ready for an intense workout?
According to RunHundred.com, a Web site that surveys and polls multitudes of gym regulars, a good deal of the songs on the average workout playlist are also songs that one may often hear while out on the dance floor.
The Web site's administrator, Chris Lawhorn, has recently prepared a list of the top 10 workout songs of 2009, based on the data collected from the site's polls. Some of the songs that made the top 10 include Beyonce's "Diva" (the Karmatronic Club mix), as well as Sean Kingston's "Fire Burning" and Lady Gaga's "Pokerface." Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas" (the Calvin Harris Remix) and the Black-Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" also made the list. All of these songs are popular radio hits and club music of 2009, so it doesn't seem quite that surprising that many people would have these songs on their iPods.
What is it that links these so-called "party" songs with working out? The RunHundred ?Web site seems to suggest a correlation between the pace of the songs and the popularity in the world of fitness, as the songs that are the most favored have fast tempos between 120 and 132 beats per minute. It makes sense that these fast-paced songs would be successful in guiding people through a high-intensity work out.
In a study published in the February 2009 isue of the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, researchers found that participants who listened to "motivational" music- pop and rock tracks from recent Billboard artists- had greater endurance and were less likely to get fatigued than those listening to slower-paced tracks. And those who listened to no music at all received no increase in their endurance level.
Staff Writer
It's a weekday afternoon and you've just finished class- time to hit the gym for some stress relief. When you walk into the gym, you see several people getting in some cardio on the treadmills, working up a sweat on the ellipticals and toning up with weights.
While each workout is personal and different, these fitness enthusiasts all have one thing in common: each one is wearing a pair of tiny ear buds that connects them to the music flowing from their iPods. But what kinds of songs help to get the majority of these gym rats pumped up and ready for an intense workout?
According to RunHundred.com, a Web site that surveys and polls multitudes of gym regulars, a good deal of the songs on the average workout playlist are also songs that one may often hear while out on the dance floor.
The Web site's administrator, Chris Lawhorn, has recently prepared a list of the top 10 workout songs of 2009, based on the data collected from the site's polls. Some of the songs that made the top 10 include Beyonce's "Diva" (the Karmatronic Club mix), as well as Sean Kingston's "Fire Burning" and Lady Gaga's "Pokerface." Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas" (the Calvin Harris Remix) and the Black-Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" also made the list. All of these songs are popular radio hits and club music of 2009, so it doesn't seem quite that surprising that many people would have these songs on their iPods.
What is it that links these so-called "party" songs with working out? The RunHundred ?Web site seems to suggest a correlation between the pace of the songs and the popularity in the world of fitness, as the songs that are the most favored have fast tempos between 120 and 132 beats per minute. It makes sense that these fast-paced songs would be successful in guiding people through a high-intensity work out.
In a study published in the February 2009 isue of the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, researchers found that participants who listened to "motivational" music- pop and rock tracks from recent Billboard artists- had greater endurance and were less likely to get fatigued than those listening to slower-paced tracks. And those who listened to no music at all received no increase in their endurance level.
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