So after looking around and listening to most every song I can think of that would “juice me up” while running I have finally narrowed it down to the following list. I know, of course, everyone has their own taste in music and maybe you think mine is a little different from yours, but when Im running and trying to keep my pace up this is definitely the playlist that keeps me going and going and going!

In the hard work that is keeping fit, we all need every piece of help we can get – music included.

Its not really in any particular order other than my own attempt at organizing the Warm Up/Heat Up/Cool Down sections. I have a few remixes in the list as the original just didn’t cut it for me. I hope this helps you though, and if you have any suggestions for me/anyone else, by all means add your song(s) to the comments!

Note: YouTube links ()take you to the video and the iTunes links () will take you to the album within iTunes. If no icon is present, it was currently unavailable at the time of this post.

Warm Up
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    The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony

Heat Up

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     ACDC – Highway To Hell

     Prodigy – Breathe

     Guns N’ Roses – Welcome To The Jungle

     Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild

     Wolfmother – Joker and the Thief

  ____ Fatboy Slim – Push The Tempo

     Airbourne – Runnin’ Wild

     The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done

     Dope – You Spin Me ‘Round

     Blur – Song 2

   ____ Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride (Fatboy Slim Remix)

     Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Runnin’ Down A Dream

     Fatboy Slim – Weapon of Choice

     Ram Jam – Black Betty

     Cake – The Distance

     Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

     Dust Brothers – This Is Your Life

     Disturbed – Down With The Sickness

     Golden Earring – Radar Love

     Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank

     Dragonforce – Through the Fire and the Flames

     Powderburn – Now You Know

Cool Down

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   Link Wray & His Ray Men – Rumble

   Death Cab For Cutie – Soul Meets Body

   MGMT – Kids

   Smash Mouth – All Star

   M.I.A. – Paper Planes

   Jimmy Eat World – Pain

   No Doubt – Running

Now get out there and run!

These are very niche Mac OSX programs, but I thought I would spread the word about them as they’ve been pretty helpful to me. Even if some of them do nothing more than give my desktop some more eye candy. You might know of some of them, in which case great – the others I hope come in handy! So, in no particular order here they are.

Ecto - Download

A very small and lightweight app that lets you post to any blogging system you might be using. I use WordPress and this app fit my needs perfectly. Of course theres always MarsEdit as an alternative that WordPress announces on their site but I liked the very straight-forwardness of Ecto. To each his own. (Ecto is also cheaper)

These apps have found their way onto my Mac and have proven themselves worthy for my uses, I hope they do for you as well! If you have any suggestions for what apps should be in Part Two of my “Handy Mac OSX Programs” let me know in the comments!