Alt Rock Workout

Sick of sweating to the oldies or the same old Top 40 routine at your local gym? Good — because we’ve got the relentless riffs and alt-rock anthems to pump . . . you up, whether that means the guillotine-like guitar licks of the White Stripes (“Seven Nation Army”), the glitter-dusted power chords of the Killers (“Somebody Told Me”), the funk-infused rap-rock formula of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (“Give It Away”), or the B-movie brutality of White Zombie (“More Human Than Human”).

Don’t get your towel out just yet, either. As you’re about to hear in our Next Steps, we’re just getting started.

While we don’t endorse literally starting riots in the weight room, Kaiser Chiefs’ breakthrough single is one of many alt-rock adrenaline shots in our Next Steps set. Caught amid the chaos, and just waiting to be cranked up: the Led Zeppelin-like Route 66 riffs of Wolfmother (“Woman”), Sonic Youth’s prickly noise-pop (“100%”), Modest Mouse’s sun-stroked breakthrough single (“Float On”), and the sludge-slinging supergroup stylings of Audioslave (“Cochise,” which features key members of Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden).

From My Chemical Romance to Metric, from Pixies to Daft Punk, our Deep Cuts set won’t go easy on you either.

The next time you need to nail just one . . . more . . . rep, we’ve got you covered with the accompanying Deep Cuts — songs that range all the way from the effervescent electro and speaker-pounding disco-punk of LCD Soundsystem, the Faint, and Ladytron to the ravenous rock of Oasis, At the Drive-In, and the Jesus and Mary Chain. And, hey, if you can’t wait to tear the town a new one after you hit the showers and head home, nothing keeps that pulse racing quite like the feel-good grooves of the Replacements and Eagles of Death Metal.

We get it: not everyone wants to tackle a treadmill or 300-pound bench press while listening to whatever the gym thinks you want to hear. Personally, we like a workout soundtrack that sounds the way a kick in the shin feels. A wakeup call, if you will, and one that can be as subtle and bittersweet as Beck, the Cure, and the Strokes; as triumphant as the peaks and valleys of Arcade Fire, Pearl Jam, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; or as frantic and unforgiving as Nirvana, Andrew W.K., and the wild-eyed madman that was Iggy Pop circa “Lust for Life.” With songs like those in your back pocket, you’ll be ready to take the world on . . . or at the very least, an elliptical machine.