Guardian Article on music & exercise

This Guardian article alleges that the right music can boost your performance by 20%!

baby sister writes...

have tweaked my list, have dirtched the feling, cos it kept skipping...v.annoying, and replaced it wih Jump- girlies aloud, and moved it all around so i have slower stuff for resistnace work at the end, so have included marlene on the wall by suzanne vega. but apart from those changes my list pretty much remains the same, so i won't bore you by re issuing it!

Baby Sister's list

My sister D's list - lots of bounce along stuff - will definitely be adding Mika to my lists and it's good to see I'm not the only non-Take That fan who's sucumbed to Shine! I didn't realise that Christain hip hop existed... D has a blog too - the fabulously named Rah Lose Weight: http://rahloseweight.blogspot.com/

• Fighter: Christina (she's such a great gym buddy!)
• Suddenly I See: KT Tunstall
• Music: madonna
• Unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield
• Il Harmonics: Il Harmonics (Christian hip hop!!!)
• For the one: 29th chapter (more christian hip hop)
• Beautiful: Christina
• These Words: Natasha Bedingfield
• Airbag: Radiohead
• Shine: Take That
• Grace Kelly: Mika...

The revamped playlist - all ready for run on Fri

• Warp Brothers - Smells Like Teen Spirit
• The Killers - Somebody Told Me
• Green Day - American Idiot
• Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
• Pink - Trouble
• Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
• Chistina Aguilera - Ain't no Other Man
• The Donnas - Who Invited You
• Take That - Shine

Blame Body Combat classes for the first 2 and the canned music in the gym for Rogue Traders. Wasn't ready to give up on Christina - so she stays. Take That - I had a weirdly positive interaction with Shine on a treadmill at the weekend so that's in there for cool down.

WLR Member Playlist 1

Huge variety in this playlist! WLR is Weight Loss Resources - a dieting website I've found hugely useful. I placed a request for playlist suggestions on the Fitness Forum - and here's one of the results:

• U Don't Know Me - Armand Van Helden (Featuring Duane Harden)
• Work It Out - Beyoncé
• When You`re Gone - Bryan Adams Feat. Melanie C
• Rio - Duran Duran
• Love It When You Call - The Feeling
• Clint Eastwood (Ed Case Mix) - Gorillaz
• Devil Inside - INXS
• Even Better Than The Real Thing - U2
• Open Up - Leftfield
• Rescue Me - Madonna
• True Faith - New Order
• Trouble - Pink
• Voodoo People - The Prodigy
• Jesus In A Camper Van - Robbie Williams
• Lil Star - Kelis featuring Cee-Lo

FB Playlist Feb 07

Just about to revamp this one - it's not exactly classy, but I've loved the Kim Wilde and Christina Aguilera tracks much more than I thought I would!

• Christina Aguilera - Ain't no Other Man
• Nelly Furtado - Maneater
• Mousse T - Horny as a Dandy
• Gwen Stefani - What are you waiting for
• Madonna - Hung Up
• Charlotte Church - Crazy Chick
• Moulin Rouge Soundtrack - Lady Marmalade
• Kim Wilde - Kids in America
• Placebo - Nancy Boy