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Top 10 Slayer Songs to Train To

10. May, 2013 6 Comments Training Music

Guest Post by Mark Crook

It was June 28, 1991 and I witnessed what was probably the most memorable “metal” moment of my life. I was standing with my brother about 10 rows back center stage in Madison Square Garden during the “Clash of the Titans” tour and there was an evil sounding chant blasting through the arena…. “join us, join us, join us”… but in reverse.

It got louder and louder and concluded with a demonic shout of “Welcome Back!” followed by a crashing of drums and guitars with a blast [...]

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Top 10 Anthrax Songs To Train To

28. Mar, 2013 8 Comments Training Music

Guest Post by Mark Crook

You like “metal” music”?! Really?! But you have short gray hair, wear glasses, you’re middle-aged, you wear a suit, work a corporate job, no tattoos, drink good wine… no way!!

I’ve heard this far too often and I’m sure many of you have as well. According to society, we should’ve outgrown this music by our late twenties and calmed down listening to nothing heavier than Tom Petty (I like Tom Petty, by the way, but everything has its place).

I don’t care what anyone says… a gym can be [...]

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Top 15 Ice Cube Training Songs

22. Feb, 2013 6 Comments Motivation, Training Music

Guest Post by Renegade Inner Circle Coach, Keith Scott

Ice Cube has always been one of my favorite rappers of all time. I have never made a Hip Hop training mix that does not include a plethora of Ice Cube tracks.

One of the best lyricists of all time, Cube brings anger, aggression, and intensity in almost all of his songs. These are a few of the ingredients that every training session needs.

So, here are my top 15 Ice Cube training songs.
15. Pushin’ Weight – (War & Peace Vol. 1) – Great [...]

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Top 10 Bruce Springsteen Training Songs

24. Jan, 2013 4 Comments Motivation, Training Music

Guest Post by Renegade Inner Circle Coach, Sean Hyson

Good training music has to make you excited, alert, and even a little bit angry. For guys, it’s natural to turn to rap and metal (and, of course, rap-metal), to evoke this condition.

However, these aren’t your only options, and if you train consistently throughout your life, you’re going to crave a change eventually.

I think the real purpose of training music is to bring out your passion. You have to be somewhat emotional and worked up emotionally to train hard and purposefully. So, [...]

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Top 50 Old School Hip Hop Workout Songs

17. Apr, 2012 89 Comments Motivation, Training Music

“After 12 I’m worse than a Gremlin, feed me hip hop and I’ll start trembling.”
- Rakim

I’ve had an intense love affair with hip hop music since it’s birth. I grew up listening to Run DMC, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, LL, The Beasties and Big Daddy Kane. In the early 90’s I spent my free time mixing records on Technique 1200’s.

This is a subject I’m very passionate about and have spent decades studying. I was originally gonna simply list the top 50, but I figured that would be a cop out.

To [...]

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172 Rock Songs to Train To

28. Dec, 2011 58 Comments Training Music

I polled the Renegade Nation on my Facebook and Twitter pages asking for your favorite rock songs. I wanted strictly rock, not metal. So Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Social Distortion and that kind of stuff. Some of the answers we got could definitely be considered metal and what category do you put Rage Against the Machine in?

Anyway, here’s a compilation that will hopefully give you some good ideas to your workout play mixes.

Please do me a favor and post your top 3-10 favorite rock training songs that AREN’T already [...]

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Training Songs

01. Mar, 2010 53 Comments Training Music

If you’ve read this blog long enough you may know by now that, next to training, music is my biggest obsession in life. I go to dozens of concerts and live performances per year and could single handedly keep iTunes in business. Here’s a list of some of the newer stuff we’ve been rocking in the gym over the last few months. Some of it is recent and some of it is just stuff that I have recently gotten into or have had renewed love affair with as of late. [...]

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