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.