Cardio Kink

My new cardio amalgamation was designed to get me moving faster, harder, stronger.  It is a playlist that was conceived on a stationary bike...and came to term on the elliptical.  By the time my workout was over...I had a new baby to listen to at the gym.

But why is it kinky?  I hear you ask.  

No, you don't have to don a PVC catsuit and masque before you listen to it, though that would be nice.  In fact, the explanation is so prosaic...I almost don't want to talk about it.  While making my latest cardio playlist, and sweating all over myself (seriously, even my arms sweat...and then that sweat forms a gully down the underside and runs down to my wrists where it finally drips to the floor...unless I'm fast enough to catch it with my towel, but most of the time I'm just concentrating on staying on whatever machine I'm on)...I may have accidentally added every Kinks song on my MP3 player to the melange.  Woops.

See?  Boring.  

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure” - Marquis de Sade.

Decidedly, not boring.

And so, if I'm going to take pleasure in this new and fabulously painful regime, I'm going to need some listening pleasure...let's get kinky.

The Kinks - You Really Got Me

 AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

The Beat - Rock n Roll Girl

The Farrell Bros. - I Walk a Fiery Line

Alley Dukes - (Ain't Just) A Way Out

(This is not actually on my playlist, but I can't find She Gave Me an Itch on YouTube..haha) 

Eddie Meduza - Rockabilly Rebel

  Green Day - American Idiot

The Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right to Party 

      
Hawksley Workman - Jealous of Your Cigarette

Britney Spears - Gimme More

Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger 

Lady Gaga - Telephone

 Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster

Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back

Prozzak - Strange Disease

Christina Aguilera - Fighter

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - I Really Like Girls

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
 

Jace Everett - Bad Things 
  

 

Black Eyed Peas - I Got A Feeling

Mika - Big Girl (You are Beautiful)

Pink - Raise Your Glass
(This one is a particular favourite!)

The Kinks - Victoria
(For my town)

The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
(Because it's sunny out)

The Kinks - Lola
(For Eddie Izzard)   

This is the kind of math I like...

If it took Suzie 43 minutes to walk home from the gym last Tuesday after an hour of cardio and a whole bunch of strength training and it took her 40 minutes to walk home from the gym last Thursday after an hour of cardio; how long did it take her to walk home from the gym today?  

33 minutes!  Woot!  And I danced on the sidewalk at red lights like a big eejit...and a total stranger said, "Good for you!" while I was crossing the Blue Bridge.  Ladies and gents, if you see me en route...don't just stare, whistle too!  Haha...

What is the moral of this story problem?  I like subtraction...the rest of math can suck it.

Oh, and here's a selection of what got me moving faster today:

Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama

 

Der Dritte Raum - Swing Bob

 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Little Demon

Stereogram - Walkie Talkie Man

 

 Hedley - Cha-Ching

 Screaching Weasel - I Love You

Shane MacGowan - Ceilidh Cowboy

The Trojans - Arna-fari (Scotland the Brave)

 The Clash - London Calling

Jill Sobule - Supermodel

Cary Ann Hearst - Hell's Bells

Joan Jett - Bad Reputation 

 The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch

Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand

Mickey Avalon - Jane Fonda

Gwen Stefani - Wind it Up

Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Generation X - Dancing With Myself

The Vapors - I'm Turning Japanese

 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Killers - Human

Jack White - Love is Blindness

Massive Attack - Paradise Circus

Mixology

Mistress of the mix @ Logan's Pub.

Remember making the perfect mixed tape?  I sure do.  I had a pretty specific pattern that I used to use for song groupings.  There's something about 3s that I have always loved, especially good for creating musical sandwiches.  That even carried into my mixed CD making days, but now there's random and playlist, so unless I'm deejaying...there will be no sandwiches.  Come to think of it, I should probably give up sammis anyway...too many carbs.

What does all this have to do with losing weight and exercise you ask?  Well, I'll tell you.  CARDIO MIXING.

The only way I'm going to push myself to do more than I think I can do (without Jonathan sneaking up behind me and increasing the tension/incline/weight) is by taking in a kick-ass cardio cocktail.

Today's playlist was inspired by Halloween...and the fact that I want to look more sexy vampire and less great pumpkin.  They are of course in no particular order..as random has become my friend.

Reverend Horton Heat - The Devil's Chasing Me

The Gun Club - Ghost on the Highway

Los Straitjackets - Munsters' Theme

The Groovie Ghoulies - (She's My) Vampire Girl

The Ghastly Ones & Rob Zombie - Halloween (She Get So Mean)

The Sonics - The Witch

Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein

Mad Sin - Wicked Witch

Misfits - Ghouls Night Out

The Frantics - Werewolf

The Living End - Witch Doctor

 David Bowie - Scary Monsters

The Cramps - Human Fly

Nekromantix - Monster Movie Fan

And a little Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You for cool down.  Haha...