The best songs for pumping iron, running on the treadmill, cruising on the stationary bike or whatever else you do to break a sweat and get your "swoll on". Don't agree with the list? Place your vote or add a new item for others to vote on.
1) Bird of Happiness - Vitas
“I feel quite happy and excited whenever I hear the song, including during the "painful" and tired physical exercise --800- meter run. So I think it is a good song for exhausted exercise.”
“VITAS you are the bird of happiness~! The song is so good for us~! It make me so happy, I will keep moving on~! ~”
“A song give we energy. let we excited.”
2) Jamaica - Vitas
“Full of energetic!”
3) Body - Vitas
“The best music of the calisthenics”
“I’ll dance follow it when setting-up exercises”
5) Jam - Michael Jackson
“Yeah... JAM!”
sweet16
“Reminds me of playing basketball when I was 10!”
gangstajim
“This is what they regularly play at my GYM. This is not a normal song. Deserves to be in top 3!”
6) Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
“Come on, yall! You know Rocky will pump you up any time! ”
rogertfeeback
“Eye of the Tiger- best work-out song ever. It pumps you up”
“This song just gets my adrenaline going.”
7) Winning Streak - Marie Picasso
9) Angel Without a Wing - Vitas
10) I Ask All Saints - Vitas
12) Lose Yourself - Eminem
“C’mon, you’ll get pumped for anything with this song!”
“One of the BEST workout songs EVER!”
“Totally motivational.”
14) Till I Collapse - Eminem
“Listen to his words in the beggining b4 doing sumthing that seems challenging”
“amazing song... if you were ever in the service you will like the beginning when you can hear the cadence... brings up all the memories...”
“a bad ass song saying he’ll do anything to acheive his goal until he collaspes”
16) Let The Bodies Hit The Floor - Drowning Pool
“awesome with great instrumentals
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24) Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
“badass, that about sums it up”
“I get flippin pumped to this song!”
“I really can’t see how this isn’t higher EASILY the best pump up/ workout song ever”
26) Throw It Up - Lil Jon
“good song nice bass gets you pumped up fast”
“nice ass song I’m not a huge rap fan but this is a good song”
“Gets You so Crunked up!”
32) Lucia Di Lammermoor - Vitas
33) In Da Club - 50 Cent
“Its good if you watch the video too and see him do the upside down sit ups.”
“The vid is what helps me work out”
37) Bombs Over Baghdad - Outkast
“Up tempo.. gets me going”
41) Kernkraft 4000 - Zombie Nation
“pure energy”
“Called Kerncraft 400 from Zombie Nation... All hockey fans know this one”
43) With You - Linkin Park
“Wanna get in shape? Download the first 2 Linkin Park albums and just listen to them.”
50) Cherry Pie - Warrant
58) Vertigo - U2
“Good brisk walking or running music”
“Great for fast workouts. Gets you pumped every time!”
63) Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
64) You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
67) Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider
“If anyone hasn’t watched Vision Quest, watch it. Great 80’s movie in line with Youngblood, Karate Kid, and even Rocky. And an awesome running song.”
73) Stinkfist - Tool
“Simply makes you want to move”
ajm53179
74) Push it - Static-X
75) Boom - P.O.D.
“they even gettin’ a workout in the video lol”
76) Headstrong - Trapt
77) Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
83) They - Jem
“It’s very upbeat and entertaining and gets your blood pumping.”
86) Can’t You Trip Like I Do - Filter
“best song for the last sprint,
com’n, is just a mile.”
91) Cowboy - Kid Rock
“this is a great workout song to start off with!”
92) Parabola - Tool
“Listen closely to the lyrics”
ajm53179
94) The Second Coming - Juelz Santana
99) Orgazmatron - Sepultura
“For all the hard metal listeners with no limits.”
106) Guerilla Radio - Rage Against the Machine
108) The Man Without Fear - Drowning Pool
111) Until I Stay (Remix) - Jully Black
112) Black Betty - Ram Jam