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(Reposted from National Running Day discussion board on Facebook.)
When I workout to music, I like to fall into sync with the beat. For example, it’s very natural for me to take about 170 steps per minute when I run, so I like to listen to music that has 170 BPM (beats per minute) like [...]

Researchers say walking 100 steps/minute counts as “moderate” exercise:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142618.php
They recommend using a pedometer and making sure you get 3000 steps in 30 minutes.
Another way you can keep up the pace: walk to music! I use my iPod to train at my target pace, and you can, too! Here are 10 songs, 40 minutes [...]

I laughed out loud at this because I run to this song all the time. In fact, according to iTunes, I’ve played it well over 259 times. The song is Misirlou by Dick Dale & The Del-Tones, and you probably recognize it if you’re a fan of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.
If you’re a [...]

I love finishing out a run by sprinting to this song:
American Idiot
by Green Day
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.
Don’t want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information [...]

An easy song to run to, Posters has a nice pace for the beginning of a long run:
Posters
by Jack Johnson
Looking at herself but wishing she was someone else
Because the body of the doll it don’t look like hers at all
So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up, and gives a [...]

My first workout song of the week is Make You Feel Better by Red Hot Chili Peppers.  I always thought “we are the ones that will make you feel better” were perfect lyrics for a personal trainer national anthem.
I said now, I’ll take it
It’s better for you
Somehow we’ll make it
‘Cause that’s what we do

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