The Definitive Nerd Fitness Workout Playlist

I'm a big fan of hard rock when I lift weights. Right now I really like Atreyu's Falling Down.

Steve,

Ibid on Metallica's "Fuel"

Some others you might like:
Duke Nukem Theme--Megadeath
Electric Crown--Testament
Peace Sells--Megadeath---the bass riff alone, man. . . YEAH!
Daddy's Makin' Monsters--Demented Are GO!
Hotrod Vampires--Demented Are GO!
Symphony of Destruction--Megadeath
She's a Knockout---Social Distortion (OK, maybe this is just me. Personally, this one's my theme song)
Rise Above--Black Flag or the Tribe8 cover
Shine (Hero TIme)--Rollins Band
Monster--L7
Evergreen--L7
Chalkdust--Pollen
Call Me--Blondie

ANYTHING LOUD, HARD, HEAVY, and F*CK'N FAST!

Nothin wrong with Social D Heather :) That's all they played out in San Diego when I lived there a few years back.

-Steve

Nothing helps me through my squat sets like the last minute of Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up, last 30 seconds of RATM - Killing in the Name and the last minute of RATM - Freedom. That's pretty much my 3 work sets for squats every time. Once its done, skip 1 minute into the next track on the list to rest and by the time the screaming comes, I'm ready for the next set.

I Like To Use Static X's Love Dump For Heavy Squats, NIN's Just Like You Imagined For Heavy Deadlifts, & Adema's Giving In For Heavy Lifting In General...

Yeah, y'all are total metalheads.

I go for upbeat get-your-body-moving, danceable beats over angry music... Jamiroquai, Just Jack... Anything that's a good mix of rap, europop, stuff like that.
Though I also listen to some Johnny Cash American IV/V/VI when I'm doing wieghts; don't need the upbeat rythym, and you can't get more manly than The Man in Black.

Though, for the purest mix of energy and nerd-cred: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STPp-2kBB0

Lots of Pantera.

I could not do my work out without the blaring music. I also use my noise canceling head phones. There are a lot of annoying people at my gym who want to talk. I am there for all business. Get in and out.

Tom
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Dude, you have Zelda on there. Can it get any better than that?! Haha.
I listen to the entire discography of A Day to Remember. That stuff makes me lift harder.

Here's another chick list:

Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) - All time favorite
Fighter by Christina Aguilera
Proud (Old Theme from The Biggest Loser) by Heather Small
Hate on Me by Jill Scott
No Limits by Martha Munizzi (Christian praise music)
Golden by Jill Scott (to get me going)

ahh you guys are such metalheads! :-) Time for the chick list.... Personally my all time favourites for dancing to, (which honestly is the best and most fun workout ever... I should do it more) will always be Jump (pointer sisters and whoever else is doing it lately) and Everybody (Vanessa Amorossi) - theme for the sydney olympics.

Here's the 12:40 list I use (on random)
AC DC - Back In Black
AC DC - ThunderStruck
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
Anthrax - Antisocial
Anthrax - In My World
Ash - Kung Fu (album version)
Ataris - I Remember You
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Boom Boom
Bigod 20 - Like a Prayer - Remix
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
Blues Traveler - Get Out of Denver
Body Count - Copkiller
Christina Aguilera - Fighter
Concrete Blonde - Still in Hollywood Part 2
Concrete Blonde - Still in Hollywood
Dance Hall Crashers - American Girl
David Lee Roth - Slam Dunk
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me (US Version)
Dragonforce - Through The Fire And Flames (Album Version)
Elvis Hitler - Rebellion
Elvis Hitler - Shotgun Shell
Eric Sardinas - Piece of Me
Extreme - Play With Me
Faith No More - Epic
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
George Thorogood - I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
George Thorogood - Who Do You Love-
Geto Boys - die mother fuckers
Golden Earring - radar love
Green Day - Brain Stew
Green Day - minority
Guns N' Roses - Out Ta Get Me
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
Guns N' Roses - You're Crazy
Ice-T - Personal.wma
Insane Jane - I'm Flying
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Iron Maiden - Burning Ambition
Iron Maiden - Childhood's End
Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned - Live at the Palladium April 29 1982
Iron Maiden - Flash of the Blade
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden - Holy Smoke
Iron Maiden - I've Got the Fire
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) [Instrumental]
Iron Maiden - Murders in the Rue Morgue
Iron Maiden - Out of the Silent Planet
Iron Maiden - Prowler '88
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Iron Maiden - Running Free
Iron Maiden - Sanctuary (live Long Beach)
Iron Maiden - The Duellists
Iron Maiden - The Ides of March
Iron Maiden - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Iron Maiden - Transylvania
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Joe Satriani - Big Bad Moon
Joe Satriani - Motorcycle Driver
Joe Satriani - One Big Rush
Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Kid Rock - American BadAss
Kid Rock - Bawitaba
Kid Rock - Cowboy
L7 - Shitlist
Little Richard - Keep a Knockin
Matrix - lobby scene
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - I Believe I Can Fly
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Nothing Compares To You
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Rocketman
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - rocky horror picture show
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Take Me Home Country Roads
Medicine - The Pink
Medicine - Time Baby II
Megadeth - 502
Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour
Megadeth - Skin O' My Teeth
Megadeth - Sweating Bullets
Megaherz - Showdown
Megaherz - Tanz Auf Dem Vulkan
Metallica - 01 That Was Just Your Life (Album Version)
Metallica - 03 Broken, Beat & Scarred (Album Version)
Metallica - 04 The Day That Never Comes (Album Version)
Metallica - 05 All Nightmare Long (Album Version)
Metallica - Ain't My Bitch
Metallica - Battery
Metallica - Blackened
Metallica - Creeping Death
Metallica - Die, Die My Darling
Metallica - Fuel
Metallica - Last Caress-Green Hell
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - One
Metallica - Orion [Instrumental]
Metallica - Some Kind Of Monster
Metallica - St. Anger
Metallica - Stone Cold Crazy
Metallica - The Four Horsemen (LP Version)
Metallica - The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Ministry - Hero
Ministry - Just One Fix
Mnemic - Deathbox
Motley Crew - Kick Start My Heart
Motörhead - The Ace of Spades
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain For Satan
Naked Raygun - Soldiers Requiem
New Order - Confusion
Nickelback - Burn It To The Ground
Nickelback - Something In Your Mouth
Nine Inch Nails - Burn
Nine Inch Nails - Gave Up
Nine Inch Nails - Get Down, Make Love
Nine Inch Nails - Wish
Nirvana - Territorial Pissings
Poison - Nothing But A Good Time
Poison - Talk Dirty To Me
Rammstein - Adios
Rammstein - Asche Zu Asche
Rammstein - Du Hast
Rammstein - Feuer Frei
Rammstein - Zwitter
Ramones - Ramones
Ramones - Rock & Roll High School
Ramones - Rockaway Beach
Reel Big Fish - Nothing But A Good Time
Reel Big Fish - Take On Me
Reel Big Fish - Talk Dirty To Me
REO Speedwagon - I Do' Wanna Know
Rev Theory - Hell Yeah
Run Lola Run - running one
Scatterbrain - Sonata #11
Scatterbrain - Sonata #3
Scott Keeton and the Deviants - 100 Mile Blues
Scott Keeton and the Deviants - Rock This House
Screaming Trees - Julie Paradise
Shades Apart - Tainted Love
Slayer - Angel of Death
Slayer - Raining Blood
Slayer - War Ensemble
Sublime - Love is What I Got
Sublime - New Song
Tesla - Cumin' Atcha Live
The Ataris - The Boys Of Summer
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (Long Version)
The Offspring - A Million Miles Away
The Offspring - Bad Habit
The Offspring - Come Out and Play
The Offspring - I Wanna be Sedated
The Offspring - One Fine Day
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Allright
The Offspring - Want You Bad
The Offspring - Way Down the Line
The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid (Explicit Album Version)
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
The Sex Pistols - No One Is Innocent
The Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
The Shamen - 666 Edit
The Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love [1992 Version]
The Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
The Smashing Pumpkins-Siva
The White Stripes - When I Hear My Name
Theory of a Deadman - Hate My Life
Tito & Tarantula - White Train (Showdown)
Too Much Joy - Parachute
Too Much Joy - Susquehanna Hat Company
Toy Dolls - Sabre Dance
Toy Dolls - Toccata in Dm
Toy Dolls - Wakey Wakey Complete
Trainspotting - choose life
Twisted Sister - Were Not Gonna Take It
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Van Halen - Panama
Van Halen - Top Jimmy
Weezer - My Name Is Jonas
White Lion - Little Fighter
White Lion - Radar Love
Zito - America's Most Wanted
ZZ Top - Doubleback
ZZ Top - La Grange

"Those Who Inherit the WIll of Fire" - Naruto soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F1vvfUWS_c
"Keep Moving" - Ivy
http://www.goear.com/listen/ed759c1/keep-moving...
"Rip It Up" - Jet
http://www.goear.com/listen/6b4680b/rip-it-up-jet

And lets not forget Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk just for starters!

It depends on how I feel whether its angry or happy - so its a toss-up for me, really.

F*cking In The Bushes- Oasis
Great (underrated) instrumental song with a kickass guitarriff to get you through the last reps.
It has been used in the movie 'Snatch' when the ripped Brad Pitt kicks out a guy with one punch in a fight. Whenever I want to give up, I listen to the song and think about this scene.

Great call Arno!

I freaking love that movie, and that's such a great scene.

-Steve

The heavier, the better! Heavier/aggressive doesn't always mean angrier, though.

Lamb of God (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYlZAI2K0eU), Meshuggah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7OFjw1cQCA), and any riffy/thrashy/groovy metal that isn't too fast works.

Some other favorites: Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Protest the Hero, Iron Maiden, Children of Bodom (their old stuff)...the list goes on... Looks like we've got at least one other metalhead on NerdFitness. Glad to see that.

I dunno about the whole Meshuggah thing. That's a really cerebral band. That much syncopation would throw me off my reps. For anything else, though, badass.

A lot of Meshuggah fits into a 4/4 structure (even though the guitar riffs are in weird time signatures like 23/16 or 17/16), so it's a good groove if you follow the right instrument (usually the drums). The polyrhythms can be a bit disorienting though if you're following an instrument that isn't playing in a 4/4 groove (usually the guitars).

Agreed that they probably aren't the easiest groove to slip into for a workout, though.

I like listening to electronica type stuff, like Daft Punk or Paul Oakenfold.

I do love awesome FF remixes though.. like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9cFAdAp010
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnZTq5RiHZ4&feat...

I enjoy soulful stuff too, lately My Hands by Leona Lewis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdioLxKnjQ

I can't get into really hard stuff that much, I tend to do better in workouts with music that makes me feel inspired rather than enraged... I get plenty enough of that already from work/online FPS's :)

i have always been an MJ fan.... here goes:

wanna be startin something
speed demon
just good friends

also a fan of:
raise a little hell - trooper
stand up and shout - steel dragon (from the movie rockstar)

By the way: Eminem, Till I Collapse - IronMan style. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnqpYKx8Fvk

That's awesome m00se. Good call on Kings and Queens and Call on Me (although if I watch that video while working out I'll definitely injur myself)

-NF Steve

I've found that if I'm still listening to the music, I'm not working out hard enough.

I had to stop listening to music while I ride and run. The reason is that when I train with music, then I race and can't listen to any music at all, I spend the whole race going "God, I wish I had my iPod!"

But, alas- some favorites to workout to:

Kings and Queens (LA Riots Main Mix) - 30 Seconds to Mars
Call on Me - Eric Prydz
Crawl - Kings of Leon
Bulletproof (Dave Aude mix) - La Roux
Deep Throat - Claude VonStroke
I Gotta Feeling (Dave Guetta Mix) - Black Eyed Peas
Is it any wonder (Tall Paul Remix) - Keane

I think I'll stop here. o.o

Queens of the Stone Age "You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire"

Great call Tom. I left out "Feel Good Hit of the Summer." Such a weird song about drugs, but totally gets me fired up.

-NF Steve

For me, the ultimate marathon/running/exercising song is U2's Beautiful Day. They have played it at every marathon I have ran, and I actually have it multiple times in my playlist, so it gets played a lot. Just a great uplifting, get your heart going song.

Well put Geoffrey,

I was trying to work some U2 in there. Beautiful Day is a perfect one for
running...trying to think of a good one for lifting, hmmm.

-NF Steve

Slipknot and hardcore funk. Betty Davis is the greatest workout companion,

I've tried, I just can't get into Slipknot. Any songs you'd recommend for
me to get started?

-NF Steve

Great playlist Steve. My only compliant would be not enough AC/DC. You can NEVER have enough AC/DC :)

For the most part, I just need something distracting while I workout, whether it's music, TV, whatever. Currently I'm re-watching the 3 seasons of Arrested Development.

Good point. Will add more AC/DC in the future.

And Arrested Development = best show of all time.

-NF Steve

Arrested Development IS such a great show, it's too bad it didn't last longer. Oh well, at least we've got a movie coming our way.

Mine is a bit more retro than yours, so I only have a few of those - Welcome to the Jungle, Sandman, Kids Aren't Allright and a few others.

Mine veers into Iron Maiden, older Metallica, Megadeth, and so on. Try Siva off of Gish by Smashing Pumpkins rather than Cherub Rock. Siamese Dream was good, but each release of theirs got softer.

I definitely relate to the Taylor Swift Remix. I'm at the gym 6 days a week, and I would hear the same songs every time...Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys..that song about "like my iPod stuck on replay" was amusing the first 20 times I heard it, but then the irony just got cruel.

And Saturday nights was the remix show.

A week ago, they finally changed the radio station to one that uses its variety as its selling point (60s-90s)...it's a nice change, but going from I Love Rock N Roll to American Pie to Ace of Base is a bit rough in the middle of sets.

Hey Matt, I'll definitely check out Siva. Bullet with Butterfly Wings is another good one for build up and just chaos.

Hahaha, that mix sounds ridiculous. Still, I'd prefer that over the vocal trance remix of Party in the USA.

-NF Steve

I was with you until the Breaking Benjamin ;-P. I just started working out, but I found anything upbeat and electronic works well. Justice or The Bloody Beatroots work very well for me.

Bahaha, fair enough. Hey, what can I say? They get me angry enough to want to punch things and lift heavy objects.

-NF Steve

No lostprophets? No Hollywood Undead? No Rise Against?! For shame! (j/k) Having SOTY makes up for it "somewhat" though...they are great in concert.

I posted a portion of my playlist last week, so I won't hog up your comments section with it here: http://www.265andfalling.com/2010/01/20/music-a...

Might have to borrow some songs from your playlist though, esp the Zelda remix! Happy trails! :)

Battle of One by 30 Seconds to Mars always gets my blood pumping. It has an adrenalin filled drum beat, followed by some electrifying guitar. Then he starts off with "Try and stop me!"

The Kill by 30 Seconds to Mars is also a good one.

-NF Steve

The Kings and Queens remix. :) It's supreme!

I remember doing a spin class and one of the songs happened to be Guns n Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine. When you hit that sweet guitar solo, you crank the dial and just give it all you've got. It was pretty awesome.

Also... Survivor + Mortal Kombat = WIN. Good picks.

--Ron

I totally forgot Alestorm - No Quarter.

Pirate inspired metal!

Sweet Child of Mine is a good one. That's gotta be one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time.

-NF Steve