You know you’re into working out when you have your “go-to” songs for your big lifts, and when you even scrub forward to the right spots in the songs–right where they get the loudest and hit the hardest–and then go for big squats or deadlifts.

If that sounds ridiculous to you…you’re missing out. The psychological boost of music translates into the physical.

Studies have shown that the right music stimulates the nervous system and increases adrenaline levels while exercising. This can make high-intensity exercise feel easier, can help you keep up your pace while doing cardio, can help your sprint times, can improve your body’s oxygen consumption efficiency (really!), and may even increase strength.

Adrenaline also induces lipolysis (the breakdown of body fat into fatty acids that can be burned as energy), so it’s not TOO much of a stretch to say that music may even help you burn more fat while exercising.

As you would expect, the best types of music for exercise are those that, well, pump you up, not put you to sleep. Songs with fast rhythms perform best in studies like those I cited above.

Alright, with that out of the way, let’s get to the fun part. Below you’ll find 70 of my favorite songs to exercise to. I tried to include a fairly wide variety of genres, so I hope you find some stuff that you like.

Rock & Heavy Metal

Rage Against the Machine
Sleep Now in the Fire
Bulls on Parade
Rammstein
Du Hast
Rob Zombie
Superbeast
Dragula (Si  Non blah blah blah mix)
Soil
Breaking Me Down
White Zombie
More Human Than Human
Marilyn Manson
The Fight Song
Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Korn
Got the Life
Godsmack
Awake
Disturbed
Stupify
Deftones
My Own Summer (Shove It)
Children of Bodom
Are You Dead Yet
As I Lay Dying
Confined
Mudvayne
Dig
Nine Inch Nails
March of the Pigs
Slipknot
Before I Forget
Soulfly
Prophecy

Hip Hop

T.I.
Pledge Allegiance to the Swag
Get Loose
Travis Porter
Ayy Ladies
Trick Daddy
Tuck Ya Ice
Waka Flocka Flame
No Hands
Wale
Ambition
Wiz Khalifa
Black and Yellow
Young Jeezy
Go Crazy
Thug Motivation 101
P$C
25 to Life
Petey Pablo
Freek-A-Leek
Notorious B.I.G.
Party and Bullshit
Big Poppa
Ludacris
How Low
Lil Wayne
Swag Surfin
6 Foot 7
Kris Kross
Jump
Kendrick Lamar
Swimming Pools (Drank)
Jay-Z
Hard Knock Life
The Game
Dope Boys
Put You on the Game
Dre
Chevy Ridin’ High
Drake
Over
DMX
We Right Here
Get It on the Floor
DJ Khaled
I’m On One
Birdman
Money to Blow
2Pac
California Love

Electronic

Bassnectar
Hologram
Timestretch
Lights (Bassnectar Remix)
Fisherspooner
Never Win (Benny Benassi Remix)
Florence + The Machine
Shake It Out (Benny Benassi Remix)
Flosstradamus
Total Recall
Kaskade
Fire In Your New Shoes (Sultan & Ned Shepard Electric Daisy Remix)
New Order
Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)
Paul Oakenfold
Dread Rock
Pendulum
Blood Sugar
Propane Nightmares
The Prodigy
Out of Space
Firestarter
Smack My Bitch Up
Breathe
Swedish House Mafia
One
Call Me Greyhound (Kap Slap Bootleg)
W&W
Alpha
Black Sun Empire
Arrakis
Future Frame
Netsky
Pirate Bay
Gemini
Oxygen
Rise & Fall

Like any of these? What are your favorite songs to exercise to? Let me know in the comments below!

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