Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Best Musical Song for fitness training?
#1Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 6:37am
Ok it may sound weird but when I'm working out I love to listen to some show tunes like
"She love to hear the music" from THE BOY FROM OZ
"I Go To Rio" from THE BOY FROM OZ
"Holding Out For A Hero" from FOOTLOOSE
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" from GYPSY
"Schadenfreude" from AVENUE Q
Do you have any favorite tracks?
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
- Bette Davis
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#2re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 6:46amI suggest "Fatty" from Angel.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#2re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 6:53am
"Whipped Into Shape" Legally Blonde
"Good Morning Baltimore: Hairspray
"OUt Tonight" RENT
"La Vie Boheme" RENT
Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
vassey
Stand-by Joined: 2/26/08
#4re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:03am
A couple songs from A Chorus Line are wonderful fitness songs.
Any big, fun dance number from any show should usually work.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
MethodActor
Swing Joined: 4/29/08
#5re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:09am
What a great idea...I'll have to make a playlist too!
BOL and Totally F@@ked work well from Spring Awakening
Wash that man from South Pacific
Nothing Like a Dame South Pacific
Cop Song from Urinetown
I wish I had my MP3 player with me!
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#7re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:05amI just put my Ipod on shuffle since almost everything on there is showtunes.
Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!
#9re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:49amThe remixes to Defying Gravity are good. I have them on my workout mix. Though I have a pretty hard time working out to showtunes most of the time.
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#10re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:13amWeeeeeeell, I find Ryan Scott Oliver & Gordon Leary's "No One's Gonna Love You, Bitch" to be quite inspirational on the treadmill. Rip the audio from the YouTube video...
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#11re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:10am
"Angry Dance" from BILLY ELLIOT is the ***BEST*** track to work out to. Very energetic.
Also - nearly everything from XANADU.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#12re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:30am
You Can't Stop the Beat from HAIRSPRAY
Overture to GYPSY
Overture to FUNNY GIRL
#13re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:44am
B*tch of Living- Spring Awakening
Don't Do Sadness/ Blue Wind - Spring Awakening
The Dark I know Well - Spring awakening
Cell Block Tango - Chicago
What You Want - Legally Blonde
Bend and Snap - Legally Blonde
All Over the World - Xanadu
Xanadu- Xanadu
Dance: Ten Looks: Three - A Chorus Line
We Might Play All Night - Passing Strange
You can be as loud as the hell you want - Avenue Q
I want the Good Times Back - TLM
Positoovity - TLM
when ti comes out
Benny's Dispatch - In The Heights
The Club /FireWorks - In The Heights
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#14re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:47am
I'm Alive-Xanadu
Evil Woman-Xanadu
All Over the World-Xanadu
Xanadu-Xanadu
Totally F***ed-Spring Awakening
B*tch of Living-Spring Awakening
All that Jazz-Chicago
Wilkommen-Cabaret
Bend and Snap-Legally Blonde
Defying Gravity-Wicked
No Good Deed-Wicked
The Wizard and I-Wicked
I'll say right now I work out to most of Xanadu-it's really good for cardio.
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
#15re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 11:48am
I run three miles a day, and I have an ipod playlist of the following...
La vie boheme - Rent
Take me or leave me - rent
Out tonight - rent
Ladies choice - hairspray movie
Nicest kids in town - hairspray
you can't stop the beat - hairspray
what is this feeling - wicked
Omg you guys - legally blonde
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#16re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:36pm
I am not one to workout, but I do love a brisk wall with the iPod.
My favorites are Xanadu and Bright Lights Big City. Both of these recordings help me to keep going and push myself.
#17re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:38pm
If you want to go the full way.. there is a broadway workout cd you can buy. I have a copy of it somewhere that I used to use back in the day...
It was dance mixes of some of the best knowns songs.
Some of it is god-awful but for sheer cheeze and fun it is a must.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#18re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 4:26pmMost of Mamma Mia
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
#19re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 5:30pmMost of the Wedding Singer Soundtrack and Green Green Dress/ Boho Days from Tick, Tick... Boom soundtrack. I used to like working out to Movin' Out but an actually Billy Joel cd could probably be a fine alternative as well :]
"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs."
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#21re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:36pm
My pre-race play list features
Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage- Boy from Oz
Whipped into Shape- Legally Blonde
La Vie Boheme- Rent
Defying Gravity- Wicked
You Can't Stop the Beat- Hairspray
What is this Feeling- Wicked
The Speed Test- Thoroughly Moderen Millie
Positive- Legally Blonde
Totally F*****-Spring Awakening
"That was the most offensive thing I've seen in 20 years of teaching. And that includes an elementary school production of Hair." -Glee
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#22re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:54pmGotta love the Altar Boyz Megamix
#23re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:58pm"Surprised" and "On My Way" from Violet are big hits for me. And I listen to a lot of Mika. Yeah.
-Benjamin
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Trina55
Stand-by Joined: 12/11/05
#24re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:56pm
A lot of these songs have been on my workout lists!
Defying Gravity was always one of my favs - I'd practically fly right off the elliptical machine.
To add a few:
*A Beat Behind from The Goodbye Girl
*Cross the Line from BIG
*And They're Off (A New Brain)
*This is Not Over Yet (Parade)
*River Won't Flow & Steam Train (Songs for a New World)
*The Opening number from I SING
*Most of Zanna, Don't!
#25re: Best Musical Song for fitness training?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:08pm
Saturday Night in the City - The Wedding Singer
Whipped Into Shape - Legally Blonde
The Steam Train - Songs for a New World
Toledo Surprise - The Drowsy Chaperone
All Over the World - Xanadu
Gimme the Ball - A Chorus Line
The B*tch of Living - Spring Awakening
Go Into Your Dance - 42nd Street
Dance at the Gym - West Side Story
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