For all subscribers who suffer from stagnation in training or lack of motivation. We made a list of only motivational best workout songs to do sports in 2020!
Music will help make workouts more enjoyable and productive. The main thing – to choose the right playlist.
We studied popular sports collections of streaming services. Selected the best motivational workout songs from them. And arranged them in such a way that the tempo would smoothly change from song to song.
25 Best Workout Songs for the Gym
We conducted a survey among former and current professional bodybuilders.
Songs that can make you go out in cold weather. Songs that make you scream like a crazy beast when it is overstressed.
Find these motivational workout songs and listen to them. And most importantly – turn them on at full volume. This list includes songs related to rock, rap and everything else you could wish for. So take a look at it.
25. Iron Man, Black Sabbath
For a bodybuilding gym, there is hardly any better song for this one. Moreover, if you are lifting crazy weights, then turn on this tune, which has become a single definition of heavy metal style.
24. “Instant Karma!”, (We All Shine On), John Lennon
Great composition, forcing to raise your ass. The song was produced by Phil Spector.
The recording was attended by George Harrison, who played the guitar. It was composed and recorded in the studio on the same day, and ten days later it was already on sale. Under it, you will also move faster.
23. “Piece of My Heart”, Janis Joplin
This is the only female composition on our list (except for “Mom” LL Cool J), but on the other hand, this is not the Lilith Fair festival, right? Janice’s passion is in full swing, and she orders the audience to absorb it. What are you waiting for? Absorb, damn it.
22. “Time 4 Sum Aksion”, Redman
The aggressive reputation of this motivational workout song was confirmed by Mike Tyson, who chose it as a composition, under which he went into the ring for the first time after serving the conclusion.
21. “Black Dog”, Led Zeppelin
“Hey, beautiful, you are so lit, I will make you sweat, and you will be pleased as never before in my life.” The combination of Page’s immortal riffs, Plant’s monstrous voice, and Bonham’s thundering percussion make you rock iron like a violent Viking.
20. “Rip This Joint”, The Rolling Stones
Despite the fact that Jagger’s face resembles Dorian Gray at the sunset of life, the singer’s body is still like that of an inveterate heartthrob.
And motivational workout songs like this prove why this is so. This feverish short song, 2 minutes and 22 seconds long, gives the necessary charge for intensive training both on the treadmill and on the Smith machine.
19. Flight of the Valkyries, Richard Wagner
This thunderous composition plays a big role in a small film called Apocalypse Today. Download it and turn it on at full volume for pain in the ears. With this, you either secure a heart attack or set a personal record.
18. Droppin ’Plates, Disturbed
They say that music is a weapon. We agree with this (if this is a mass-raising weapon, of course). The rage in this thing whips over the edge, not to mention the fact that this is perhaps the most suitable song for weightlifting on this list.
17. “Walk,” Pantera
“Walk” … like a passage through a brick wall.
16. “So What’cha Want,” Beastie Boys
There is a reason for the fact that this song opens the best album of Solid Gold Hits.
The repulsive genre mix of the boys’ hip-hop brand and the directions of the old school soul and grooves is penetrating to the core, stimulating enhanced energy release. If you want to have a pumped-up relief press, then put this composition on repeat.
15. “Chest Day,” Frank Zane
There is a reason for the fact that this motivational workout song opens the best album of Solid Gold Hits.
The repulsive genre mix of the boys’ hip-hop brand and the directions of the old school soul and grooves is penetrating to the core, stimulating enhanced energy release. If you want to have a pumped-up relief press, then put this composition on repeat.
14. “Another One Bites the Dust”, Queen
The Queen group has made many hits suitable for training (“We Are the Champions”, “We Will Rock You”, “Under Pressure”). And this motivational workout song stands out among them with a powerful bass line and impudent mood.
13. “Lose Yourself”, Eminem
If you hate this guy, then you don’t like the recommendation. Well, okay.
12. “Right Now”, Korn
The lyrics of the song relating to the nu-metal classics will properly tune you into punishing yourself for gaining extra weight: “Something is not right for me today / No, this is not detachment or stupor at all / Only irritability and quiet rage”.
11. “Move B *** h”, Ludacris
We were all in this position – the position of a joyless type, indecisively languishing in a corner.
And when you finally have more free space around you, pour the accumulated rage into a few complementary approaches with an expression of higher impatience, for the time being, pent up.
10. Overture “1812”, P. Tchaikovsky
Even if the embodiment of your ideas about classical music is the early stage of Black Crowes, this thunderous composition is known to you anyway. They say that Tchaikovsky himself declared that it has no artistic value. But who needs art if you have pumped legs?
9. “Gonna Fly Now”, Bill Conti / Bill Conti
Some songs become indispensable for training. Others are just made for them.
The song from “Rocky” belongs to the second category. Hearing these pipes, you start burning with the desire to swallow six raw eggs, pull on a grey T-shirt and run through several hundred steps – and all this at once.
8. “Mama Said Knock You Out”, LL Cool J
LL’s reputation has never been high. But one day he rehabilitated, shocking the world of hip-hop with this uncompromising motivational workout song. Gorgeous bass and deadly bars will give you back your aggressive energy.
7. “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Nirvana
Your training partner is gasping like some overweight marathon runner, and you still, as if nothing has happened, do dumbbell approaches, building up muscle mass.
And all because your ears torment inspirational aggressive sounds of the disturbing hymn created by Kurt Cobain.
6. “Hit‘ Em Up “, 2Pac
In a caustic and equally straightforward text, 2Pac verbally criticises Notorious rapper B.I.G..
5. “Eye of the Tiger”, Survivor
The song belongs to the hard rock of the 80s. The text is simple, but, damn it, if it fit Rocky Balboa, it will do for you.
4. “Fight the Power”, Public Enemy
Explosive, implacable, aggressive, incendiary – just what you need for the gym. Deafening bass, staccato bars, text in the spirit of “Take No Prisoners” – all this will lead you into a state of assault when you start to perform the first set.
3. “Back in Black”, AC / DC
No other song shouts about real masculinity except this one. “Back in Black” will twist at all times, as long as there are speakers.
2. “Enter Sandman”, Metallica
Heavy riffs, heavy rhythms – the perfect song for training with large weights. Listen to Lars Ulrich pounding the drums and not wanting to touch the iron? No, It is Impossible.
1. “Welcome to the Jungle”, Guns N ’Roses
What can be said here? The gym is a jungle. Axl’s growling vocals and Slash’s infectious powerful chords will make you repeat the approaches like some kind of crazy monkey-man.
Do you need irrefutable evidence that this is the best song passed down from generation to generation?
Top by AskMeFitnessQuestion
If the rhythmic track of Eminem Till I Collapse inspires you to workout in the gym, you are far, far from alone. To see this for yourself, look at the top sports track, compiled by AskMeFitnessQuestion.
Of course, many of these tracks are popular not only among athletes:
They just currently lead the music charts. However, according to data collected from millions of AskMeFitnessQuestion users, it is this music that is most often included in playlists with the #workout tag.
Here are two top lists by AskMeFitnessQuestion.
Hip-hop for Serena Williams, eighties for Ole Einer Bjørndalen, vigorous rap for LeBron James and fiery Kasabian for Andres Iniesta – Masha Makarova looked into the playlist of world athletes and found there a lot of interesting things.
Perhaps these songs are the best choice for Sunday morning.
10 songs that inspired athletes for world records
It happens like: you walk along the street, you put on the headphones, it’s boring, sad, you don’t have a hand. But then suddenly, once – and hoarse rock-and-pollster yells to you that we must urgently stop whining, get up and move on.
You ask yourself the most important question, and you cannot find an answer to it. I want to immediately accomplish some feat. And its all is music.
- Michael Phelps
(18 times Olympic champion)
– I ALWAYS listen to DMX. Here is the song called Party Up.
According to legend, before setting his first world record, American swimmer Michael Phelps listened carefully to one fabulous rap song. And since then, gone-gone.
Records began to fall one after another, gold (Olympic) flowed into the hands, and the following lines invariably sounded in the headphones:
«All your men up in the jail before, suck my d**k.
And all the other cats you run with, get done with, dumb quick,
How the f**k are you gonna cross the dog with some bum shit?»
2. Serena Williams
34 times Grand Slam Tournament Winner
– I listen to songs that motivate me, make me gather. Green Day has these. Sometimes I include something from Beyonce, she seems very keen on her work. Hip-hop, too, listen, and a lot.
Serena Williams loves music. So much so that she once played the harmonica and the guitar. She has as many as five of the legendary Stratocaster guitars in her collection. With her sister Venus, she even made a rock band.
“It was the case; I arranged real jam sessions. In our group, we could not find a drummer, but the jams were conducted regularly. Venus was on the bass; I’m on the guitar. Sometimes the opposite. We played rock music, punk …
Venus loves something more alternative. It was a lot of fun! ” Before the matches, Serena is not always able to listen to something. Sometimes she needs silence to tune in to the game, but she still has her playlist.
3. Lleyton Hewitt
triple winner of Grand Slam tournaments
– I like Rocky’s fighting spirit, his attitude to work,
his motto is “never give up.” The film Stallone influenced me very much on how I play. I always fight to the end.
Australian tennis player Lleyton Hewitt is a big fan of Rocky. Before important matches, he always listened to the main musical theme of the tape, Eye Of The Tiger.
According to Hewitt, this song raises the level of adrenaline in the blood, and the film teaches what it means to be an athlete. It does not matter if you fight in the ring or go to court.
4. Lebron James
two-time NBA champion, one of the coolest sportsmen on the planet
– I love Jay-Z. His lyrics, presentation, music and inspiration always prepare me to go out and do my best to win.
In March 2012, the Miami Heat hit the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA regular season. It was a remake of 2011 final when Dallas defeated Miami. But this time the victory was won by basketball players from Miami.
And many say that it was just that LeBron James turned on his playlist in the locker room “Hit”. It consisted of the following songs:
Wu-Tang Clan — Bring The Pain
Jay-Z — Reservoir Dogs
DMX compilation
5. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen
eight-time Olympic champion in biathlon
– If you choose one thing, then choose Dire Straits, they always have good music.
To start with, the rap is sometimes listened to by the great biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, but he still calls the rock band Dire Straits his favourite. In Norway, not so long ago, an interesting survey was conducted among shooting skiers.
They were asked under which song they would like to start in the race. Then these songs really included on one of the races. Ole Einar proudly drove under the Brothers In Arms. Classics do not age (like Bjoerndalen himself).
6. Steven Gerrard
still captain of Liverpool, holder of the Order of the British Empire
– I listen to a lot of music, but Dakota is my favorite!
Before the 2014 World Cup, England football players were asked to compile a music CD with motivating songs that they listen to in training before the match. The collection turned out to be somehow indistinct – in fact, as the English game at that very championship.
Glen Johnson, for example, chose the naughty song Naughty Boy – La La La, Jack Wilshere – the track with the iconic name Sam Sam Smith’s Money On My Mind. And even Steve Gerrard, who not without reason considers himself a good musical taste, for some reason.
The disc chose a pop hit from Avicii – Wake Me Up. Although all Liverpool fans have long known that Gerrard’s favourite song is the Dakota of the Stereophonics group. He listens to it before the matches (apart from, of course, You’ll Never Walk Alone).
Well, that would include Stereophonics – you see, better, England would perform in Brazil!
7. Andres Iniesta
world champion in football
– I would like to say a big thank you to the Kasabian group. I want to invite them to visit me, as well as to call for a game between Barça and Real Madrid at Camp Nou. And we could walk all night in Barcelona and celebrate the victory at the World Cup as it should!
In 2010, the Spanish national football team turned out much better than the British in 2014. It is said that Fernando Torres, a well-known fan of the Kasabian group, was in charge of the team’s dressing room at the team.
Before each match, the loud and angry motivational workout song of the Lesters of the Club Foot played. After winning the World Cup, the Spaniards even called Kasabian to play at their holiday, because … well, they were in some sense involved in it, didn’t they?
8. Ian Thorpe
five-time Olympic champion in swimming
– My grandfather made me a waterproof iPhone case. When I swim, I usually listen to Kanye West, the album Watch The Throne – it’s cool, this is not some bang-bang techno. His rhythm is about the same as the one in which I swim.
Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe loves different music but prefers to swim … of course, with hip-hop in his headphones.
9. Evander Holyfield
the only one in the history of professional boxing four-time world heavyweight champion (as well as the man whom Mike Tyson bit off a piece of an ear)
– It’s all about the thoughts that come to mind. Whatever you do, your brain speaks to you. It often happens that you run, and the brain points out to you: “Stop!”. But I still continue to run, because if you stop once, you will always stop. Music helps drown out these thoughts.
The famous heavyweight boxer, who ended his career in 2011, drew inspiration from eighties music. It was she who helped him to accumulate adrenaline before the fights and fight with other thoughts in training. Eye Of The Tiger?
Certainly, but not only. Maybe the hit Maniac from the Flashdance musical doesn’t fit in with the image of a huge boxer, but this motivational workout song is included in the Holyfield playlist. And another mandatory track is War (What Is It Good For?).
10. Svetlana Kuznetsova
two-time winner of the Grand Slam
– Before the matches, I often listen to Deja Vu Beyonce and Jay-Z. Such music motivates me, helps me to concentrate.
In addition to Jay-Z and Beyonce, tennis player prefers Russian rock. It is no secret that Kuznetsova is a real Zemfira fan. She tries to catch her concerts at any opportunity and lights them so that she would never recognise the world-famous athlete.
But right before the games, Kuznetsova chooses which is simpler, namely R’n’B.
Workout playlist for 2020 by famous athletes
During your next workout, imagine yourself being transported directly to the stadium, where thousands of fans shout out your name, motivating you more and more with each step.
This dream can become a reality thanks to the music with which world-class athletes go to their gold awards.
Rate these training motivational workout songs chosen by the best athletes to help you reach your goal.