Sometimes all you need to put the fire back into your workout is a change in music. You can tell when you've listened to the same workout mix too many times when you're in the middle of your regular life outside the gym and when Pitbull comes on you've suddenly dropped down into burpees. Then everyone's looking at you like you're crazy. And then you really feel bad about yourself because you're the lunatic doing burpees voluntarily. But I digress...let's just say that some new tunes were needed.
My awesome friend Regina not only provided us with the workout template that is now named after her (10 stations with one minute of an exercise, one minute of cardio, 10 push ups and 10 sit-ups at each station) but she also brought with her the Ipod speaker and the 80's cardio mix on Pandora.
The musical flashback was fun and distracting, whether using the cardio portion of a round to recreate Jennifer Beal's famous Flashdance moves (She's a maniac, mayyyyyyyyniac) or putting a little more funk into our curl presses with the King of Pop (ya wanna be startin' somethin'). And aren't those lyrics reflective of the frustration of the inevitable plateau (too high to get over, to low to get under....yeah yeah)?
In tunes, as in workouts, variety is the spark that will re-fuel your fire. But be warned: new tunes spurs you on to push harder. And a harder push leaves you Hungry Like A Wolf.
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