Best Running Songs

If you're going for your early morning jog, no doubt you want to have a companion. So if you can't take a friend along, then the iPod is clearly your best bet! But what songs to put in it? Here's a list of the best songs for running from the music industry.

Best Songs to Listen While Jogging

So if you want to listen to songs while running it is imperative that you listen to songs which are fast and pump you up. Listening to slow, soft songs might not pump you up one bit and will not go with the jog. If you ask me there would be one set for men and then another for women, but both need to be really fast and loud. While listening to fast songs, the brain tunes in with the speed of the song and somehow energizes the body to run a lot faster. No wonder, they don't play songs like 'Are You Lonesome Tonight' in gyms! What you need are fast songs that pump you up.

• The Pretender ~ Foo Fighters
• A Little Less Conversation ~ Elvis Presley vs JXL
• The Trooper ~ Iron Maiden
• Thriller ~ Michael Jackson
• Tornado of Souls ~ Megadeth
• Turn the Page ~ Metallica
• We Are the Champions ~ Queen
• When I Grow Up ~ Pussycat Dolls
• Work It ~ Nelly ft Justin Timberlake
• Rasputin ~ Boney M
• You Know My Name ~ Chris Cornell
• Gasolina ~ Daddy Yankee
• Fear of the Dark ~ Iron Maiden
• Sweet Child o Mine ~ Guns N' Roses
• It's My Life ~ Bon Jovi
• What Goes Around Comes Around ~ Justin Timberlake
• Rockstar ~ Nickelback
• I Got a Feeling ~ Black Eyed Peas
• Alive ~ Pearl Jam
• All the Things She Said ~ TATU
• Beat It ~ Michael Jackson
• Bebot ~ Black Eyed Peas
• Boom Boom Pow ~ Black Eyed Peas
• Feel ~ Robbie Williams
• I'm Shipping Up to Boston ~ Dropkick Murphys
• Keep Your Hands of My Girl ~ Good Charlotte
• Know your Enemy ~ Green Day
• Livin La Vida Loca ~ Ricky Martin
• Master of Puppets ~ Metallica
• (What's the Story) Morning Glory ~ Oasis
• No Leaf Clover ~ Metallica
• Of Wolf and Man ~ Metallica
• Poker Face ~ Lady GaGa
• Right Around ~ Flo Rida ft Kasha
• Rooster ~ Alice in Chains
• Sexyback ~ Justin Timberlake
• She Bangs ~ Ricky Martin
• So What ~ Pink
• Crazy in Love ~ Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z
• Lose Yourself ~ Eminem
• My Humps ~ Black Eyed Peas
• Highway to Hell ~ AC/DC
• With or Without You ~ U2
• Take on Me ~ A-Ha
• Girlfriend ~ Avril Lavigne
• Creeping Death ~ Metallica
• American Idiot ~ Green Day
• Summer of '69 ~ Bryan Adams
• In the End ~ Linkin Park
• Be Yourself ~ Audioslave
• Wonderwall ~ Oasis
• Domination ~ Pantera
• The Way I Are ~ Timbaland ft Keri Hilson
• Smack That ~ Akon ft Eminem
• Don't Cha ~ Pussycat Dolls

So these were some of the songs which I always have on my iPod whenever I go running. I find that they keep me forever pumped up for a run and sort of ensure that I run just that extra bit more!