Her Campus Logo Her Campus Logo
placeholder article
placeholder article

My Body, My Health: Pump up your workout playlist

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Brittany Linn
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Caroline Bagby
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Mass Amherst chapter.
Isn’t it hard to stay motivated at the gym when you feel like you’re working out to the same old music?  Well ladies… it’s time for an update!

Here is a unique play list featuring the top songs on some of your fellow students’ iPods!

Use these first ten songs in your 30-40 min cardio routine. Build up your speed with the beat of each song:

  1. Hot Tottie- Usher
  2. Check it out- Will.i.am and Nicki Manaj
  3. S&M- Rihanna
  4. Dynamite- Taio Cruz
  5. Born this way- Lady GaGa
  6. Toxic- Britney Spears
  7. Firework- Katie Perry
  8. Up all night- Drake
  9. Here’s the thing- Girl Talk
  10. Lose Yourself- Eminem

Try listening to these songs as you’re lifting weights, doing crunches, kickboxing, or jumping rope:

  1. Wavin Flag- World Cup Heros
  2. F**K you- Ce Lo Green
  3. Bullet Proof – La Roux
  4. Telephone- Lady GaGA
  5. We run this- Missy Elliot
  6. Boom Boom Pow- Black Eyed Peas
  7. Single Ladies- Beyonce
  8. Up all night- Drake ft. Nicki Manaj
  9. Faded- Soul Decision
  10. Shooter- Robin Thicke ft. Lil’ Wayne

Cool down with these chill songs and give yourself a pat on the back after a great work out:

  1. Half of my heart-John Mayer
  2. Up, Up and Away- Kid Cudi
  3. Constellations- Jack Johnson
  4. Fading- Rihanna
  5. Whatchya Say-Jason Derulo
  6. You’ve got the love- Florence and The Machine
  7. Take a Minute- K’naan
  8. Stand By Me- Prince Royce
  9. Faithfully- Glee Cast
  10. Fast Car- Wyclef Jean ft. Paul Simon

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar
Caroline Bagby is a senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst majoring in Journalism and minoring in Spanish. She spent her summer interning at Kiss FM for Boston's #1 hit radio show and getting owned by the restaurant where she waited tables. She is now double interning for Her Campus and for ABC40 in Springfield, MA where she is working as a broadcast news intern. Caroline hopes to one day make a name for herself in the production industry. She enjoys spending the money she doesn't have, bubbletinis, watching movies, writing, and surrounding herself with friends and family.