Tropical Workout

Work your lats to a Latin beat — let mambo, reggaeton, and salsa be the grooves that move you towards a fitter future. The man behind Señor Coconut is actually from Germany, but he lays down a strong-but-supple mambo with a touch of cha-cha-cha on his reinvention of Sade’s “Smooth Operator,” offering the ideal feel for getting your workout going. Ready to pump things up to the next level? Start with the head-bobbing, pulse-throbbing reggaeton bounce of Pitbull’s “Maldito Alcohol.” And once you’re really in the zone, you can just follow Gloria Estefan’s advice to the letter: shake your body, baby, do the “Conga” — just be sure you don’t fall off your stationary bike.

Multiply your muscles with mambo kings and queens, in Next Steps.

Sometimes, if you really want to get your blood pumping, you’ve just got to go old-school. Turn to the master of the mambo himself, Tito Puente, who lays down a hip-wriggling beat so irresistible you’ll wear out your cross-trainer to “Mambo Gozon.” Salsa queen Celia Cruz brings a hot-stepping Havana twist to the original disco-diva anthem, moving both your body and your soul on the salsafied “Yo Viviré (I Will Survive).” Even the reggaeton dream-team of Baby Rasta, Luny Tunes, and Tainy tosses some touches of merengue and cumbia into the beat blender on “Di Te Me Enamore” — along with enough forward motion to send a snail into hyperdrive.

Build your body to a beat the bounces from samba to hip-hop and back again, in Deep Cuts.

No matter what kind of workout you’ve got planned, these tropical gym jams will give your sweat session some serious syncopation. Hip-hop slams straight into samba when the Black Eyed Peas put a sexy, new spin on Sergio Mendes’ breezy Brazilian pop classic “Mas Que Nada.” Mambo pioneer Cachao works up such a ferocious firestorm of cowbells and congas on “Bemba ‘e Cuchara” that you might need a note from your doctor before you start stepping to it. And even Chicano rock kings Los Lobos get into the act, serving up a beat that’s bound to burn a hole in your treadmill with “Chuco’s Cumbia.”

When you’re bench-pressing those barbells, burning up the bike pedals, and crunching your abs ad infinitum, you need the power, propulsion, and pure locomotion only a Latin beat can bring. Turn up the heat with a tropical workout that goes from the ballroom moves of mambo kings like Cachao and Tito Puente to the Rock en Español rave-ups of Aterciopelados and Ozomatli, and everything in between. Salsa, samba, reggaeton, cumbia, you name it — every groove you could ever want to move to is right here at your fingertips. Just promise us that even with all this exercise inspiration echoing in your head, you’ll still stop and take a break once in a while, OK? Whew — somebody toss us a towel.