Need Walking Music Suggestions
What are some of your favorite tunes to which you walk? I need some for my iPod -- just started walking a couple of days ago. Some of these songs seem to have a beat of about 2.6 mph (where I am now). I'm looking for additional ideas. (graduated high school in 1976, to give you an idea of the "era" of music I came up with). To give you an example of what I like/have:
Queen: We are the Champtions, Another One Bites the Dust, etc.
Styx: Renegade
Garth Brooks: We Shall be Free
Gloria Gaynor: I will Survive
Commodores: Brick House
Ramona
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What I did was just go to itunes so that I could listen to them first. I just listened to some until I found ones that would get me going.
They also have walking/workout music. The biggest loser tunes are on there too.
Happy walking!
Debbie
http://www.mixwit.com/eanthonyheston/beautiful-damn-it
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You pick the pace at which you walk or run and download tracks with that beat-per-minute time. So I walk around 3.6 to 3.8 miles per hour which means I use tracks that are at around 136-138BPM. To tracks are kind of techno or modern with a definite beat in the background that keeps your pace up for the entire workout. Most tracks are 1 hour long, so gives you time to do a solid workout without changing songs (although the hour long track is a compilation of several different songs in itself).
You can also check out Your Fitness Music. http://www.bestworkoutmusic.com/search.html
It's the same basic concept as above.... pick your pace and find songs that match how fast you walk or run. But these are actual songs, not an engineer hour long track. You pick your genre of music, pick your pace then the program gives you a list of songs that match your likes. Each song has a link to a website where you can download/buy the song right online (for much cheaper than iTunes ... usually around .10 to .25 per song).
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