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TODAY.com spoke with trainers and other fitness connoisseurs and asked them to share their favorite workout songs. Below is a list of 50 of their top 50 picks, plus a few freebies for fun.
Described by Stuart Elliott in The New York Times as "an infectiously sunny tune about the affirmative powers of self-confidence," [2] "You Gotta Be" according to Des'ree is, like all the songs on its parent album, "about having the inner strength to figure out who you are" with "You Gotta Be" specifically being "born out of me stopping myself and thinking every day how you gotta be something.
"Chicken Fat" was the theme song for President John F. Kennedy's youth fitness program, and millions of 7-inch 33 RPM discs which were pressed for free by Capitol Records were heard in elementary, junior high school and high school gymnasiums across the United States throughout the 1960s and 1970s. [2]
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The song was a minor commercial success in the United Kingdom, where it briefly appeared on the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number 45 in August 2001. It won acclaim from music critics for the sonically diverse production, along with Roots Manuva's embrace of British cultural tropes, as opposed to the American cultural dominance seen ...
If there’s a top jack-of-all-trades in the music industry, there’s a good chance it’s Ryan Tedder. He’s a hugely successful recording artist (as leader of OneRepublic), one of the top ...
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse found in a 2003 study that participants who chose to listen to faster-paced music generated a higher heart rate, pedaled harder and generated more power, increasing their level of work by as much as 15% by diverting their focus to the music. The study tested 20 volunteers who listened to an ...
It could also be a re-recording of the music being performed "live" and unplugged with audience that can be heard in the song clapping, cheering or chanting. Only a handful of live songs managed to hit No. 1 compared to its studio versions. "Fingertips" – Little Stevie Wonder (August 10, 1963 for three weeks)