I went out for a bike workout recently and lately I’ve been bringing along my headphones. It helps on long rides, let me tell ya. I don’t actually mind a quiet ride but when it gets to 45 minute, hour, hour plus rides, a little music goes a long way. For this ride, the night before I had planned on going through the entire new album from Judah and the Lion but the morning of the ride I was in a different mood. Not a talk radio mood, I’ve tried that on bike rides and it just doesn’t work for me. So I queued up the songs from my Run Music 2 playlist and yesterday during my ride, it was perfect. Spoiler alert: It’s a lot of NF, Connor Price, and Muse. Songs like “Spinnin” and “Trendsetter” from Connor, “Clouds” and “Hope” from NF, and “Survival” and “Madness” from Muse. If those don’t help keep your heart rate up, I don’t know what will! Now if I could just get my speed up too, wouldn’t that be nice?
Here’s a link to the playlist.
It depends on the day, I guess, but I like listening to things that make me feel *insert emotion here*. Sometimes I want to feel like a conquerer. That’s usually when I go with the playlist above. Other times I need to feel deep conviction while I workout… so I’d go with a worship playlist. Slow songs but overflowing with emotion and that can get me going. Then there’s the angry workouts. I don’t need music for those, actually… my thoughts can be enough fuel. But those are few and far between, thank God!
Do you have any suggestions? What’s on your hype playlist for running or cycling?
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