Total Workout: Power Songs

When it comes to your total workout, you've got to do what it takes, and sometimes what it takes is a bunch of tunes to power you through. Tunes like Bill Conti's theme from Rocky, "Gonna Fly Now", to bring out your lean, mean inner beast, or "Hocus Pocus" by Focus to help you shrink excess pounds with a righteous blast of rock flute. Whether you need the epic force of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" to boost that last treadmill mile, or the muscle-rippling riffage of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" to inspire your thirst for gym domination, our Total Workout: Power Songs Essentials is your supreme soundtrack to workout triumph.

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Inertia? Forget about it! There's no way you're going to let go of your goals when you've got Foo Fighter's rocket launcher, "Breakout", to lift your workout to new heights. That's the beauty of super-strong workout tunes — they pick up the slack when you need it most, with never-die heroes like Them Crooked Vultures energizing your elliptical mojo with "Elephants", and Girls Aloud slinking the way to ultimate fitness with "Something Kinda Ooooh". Pixie Lott offers up some positive reinforcement with the too-sexy club sounds of "Turn It Up" and Billy Idol steams like a freight train to the next level of buffness via "Dancing With Myself".

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Hey, sometimes we all need a little help kindling that fire in the belly — now it's as easy as igniting Nirvana's "Lithium" and feeling the afterglow. And speaking of scorchers, you can fuel up the tank to Deep Purple's "Burn" while you put the pedal to the workout metal with Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", and turn the power loose to Jeff Beck's "Hammerhead". Go fitness crazy to the rap-metal madness of Linkin Park and "Bleed It Out" and when the energy starts flagging, we've got Foreigner standing by with the potent sonic potion of "Hot Blooded". And if all that's not enough, the vast reserves electro muscle contained in Daft Punk's "Robot Rock" will grind you through to the end.

When you want to wring the most out of your workout — we're talking the last drop of no-guts-no-glory brute force — you need our Total Workout: Power Songs Essentials. This is the playlist for the serious workout monster, the kind who thrives on shout-it-out anthems like Queen's "We Will Rock You", or the sonic whip-cracking of Christina Aguilera's "Fighter" and her "work a little bit harder" command. It's what beginners and lifers alike turn to for the extra-rep beats of Pendulum's "Witchcraft", the pummelling aggression of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll", and the heart-starting rap-rock pulse of "Let It Rock" from Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne. We know you might not need Slash and Fergie to tell you you're "Beautiful Dangerous" but, you know what, it never hurts to hear it.