I know it sounds corny, but I like to work out to anything by Outkast and Fergie. I also like the old 80s songs like, "I wear my sunglasses at night".

I know, I'm a total dork :)

I use alot of high beat music like the black eye peas "pump it" but i also have stuff that i can dance to like michel buble "save the last dance for me". Also have stuff from the eightees like tom pettys "running down a dream" billy idols song "cradle of love" or "oldies" music such as "geat balls of fire" " i will survive"...hope this helps : )

Can't hear much underwater, but find myself singing Tool in my head when I'm swimming a mile straight. When I'm climbing, I've got Soundgarden's "Don't like what you've got me hanging from . . ." going through my head. When I'm working weights, I love to mix it up with the following:

Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Fugazi 13 Songs
Tool 10,000 Days or Lateralis
Nirvana Nevermind
Dropkick Murphys
Ministry
Dead Kennedys
The Pixies Surfa Rosa, Trompe Le Monde or Death to the Pixies
Black Label Society--varies by song
Velvet Revolver
Stone Temple Pilots Core or 5
Desmond Decker
Pearl Jam Rear View Mirror (a best of compilation)
Agent Orange
and on and on--basically, I like to rock out when I lift.

I know what you mean about having songs in foreign languages, it's less distracting and the beats are always more energetic. I like Heavy Metal because it has the same effect...But here's my current playlist. I usually listen to a song on replay because going from one song to another while I'm running gets me running at different paces and wears me out faster.

Big Isn't Beautiful, Everybody Get Up, Half Time [Stand Up & Get Crunk], Miss Murder, Marching Cadences of USMC and Ya'll Want A Single [Say Fuck That].

Fergi, Gwen Stefani, ANYTHING Black Eyed Peas, Nine Inch Nails...anything with a good beat!

Tragically Hip - they have a wide variety of beats and tempos and their music is upbeat and awesome!!!!

"Are you gonna be my girl"

Saving Jane-"Girl Next Door" and "One Girl Revolution"

Pink-"U and UR Hand"

Definitely Nine Inch Nails... glad to see a few other people agree here, hehe :) Try "The Perfect Drug" - it'll get your heartrate going just on its own :P

I like fairly intense hardcore/metal too, but that's just me... try the song "Confined" by As I Lay Dying - for those of you who are turned off to the genre in general because of your religious or personal beliefs, you might try this song specifically - As I Lay Dying are very strongly Christian artists and cool guys, I've met them :)

Isnt is the worst when youre running and a slow song comes on? Unless its yoga then its the oppisite afast one comes on and totally ruins your breathing and state of mind!!!!!!

my ranges all over the place angry chick music (Alanis), NIN, Rage Against the Machine, Justin Timberlake, Kanye west-stronger song only...anything that makes me want to get up and move..the Temtations, James Brown, Earth Wind and Fire

Weird things motivate me, it isn't necessarily fast music. I'm a classically trained cellist, so sometimes I pump iron to Rachmaninov, Orff, Shostakovich, Bernstein, Rachel Portman, Beethoven and Mozart. There's country and folk in my roots so sometimes Planxty, Little Big Town, John Michael Montgomery (hey, Life's a Dance you learn as you go...), The Chieftans, Lorena McKennit. Metal sometimes, so Creed, Evanescence, the soundtrack from the Matrix films. Early Keith Jarrett every now and then, or probably the weirdest (as far as the average gym-goer is concerned) The King's Singers. I don't quite know why they motivate me, they just do.

Turtle Island String Quartet. Palestrina. Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Pointer Sisters. Bach.

I have been conscious, recently, that I do want to be careful how much time I spend plugged in, especially at the gym. In order to hear my tunes louder than the music the gym plays my iPod volume is set louder than if I'm listening in a quiet place. I guess this is by the way of saying enjoy your workout, enjoy your music, but keep the volume down as much as possible and limit the duration.

Or take up sign language, just in case!

peace,
Brian

Oh gosh i'm glad I'm not the only one who uses classical music! Maybe it's being a classically trained violinist (I am trying sooo hard not to buy myself a cello though Fiddler - soooo sooo hard. I must visit them in the store every two weeks). Although lately it's been other stuff, I train with two DJs who wouldn't appreciate Mozart or Chopin.