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"I made you a mix tape" -- some of the best words to hear from someone you care about! Join Matt and Sam on a weekly mix tape adventure: each guest is asked to pick a theme and make a mix tape, which will be unveiled over the course of the episode. You're guaranteed to hear about good music, some new music, and even learn some trivia along the way. Come listen with us, and be sure to grab your copy of the mix made available in the Super Awesome App in each episode's show notes. IG/Threads: @superawesomemix
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Mixtape Rewind: The Ultimate Workout Mix
Get ready to elevate your workout game with a mix that’s designed to pump you up and push you through! Back in 2022, Matt and Sam brought you an energizing playlist filled with tracks that fuel your fire and inspire resilience. From rock anthems to rap classics, each song on this carefully curated list serves as a motivational powerhouse, making it an essential component of your workout routine.
We discuss the unique attributes that make a song perfect for exercise—think steady rhythms, uplifting lyrics, and emotional connections that keep you moving. Whether you’re running on the track, lifting weights at the gym, or just looking for that extra push during your home workout, these tracks are your go-to companions. Join us as we cover our individual picks with personal stories that highlight the impact of these songs on our own fitness journeys.
We've also made it interactive! Our audience has a chance to weigh in through polls, sharing their favorites and preferences, creating a community experience around the music we love. An energetic experience awaits—let’s get moving!
You can find our mix on Spotify here (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Jl5cmpBDpI2PKa6SmA06n?si=719b4f1a86184538)
Or you can find it on Apple Music here (https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/workout-running-mix/pl.u-76oNkyeIvLa5bzJ)
- The Distance by CAKE
- Juice (Know The Ledge) by Eric B. & Rakim
- Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall by Coldplay
- Runaways by The Killers
- Notorious Thugs by The Notorious B.I.G.
- Workin’ Day and Night by Michael Jackson
- Knights of Cydonia by Muse
- Gold Guns Girls by Metric
- Toxicity by System Of A Down
- One Step Closer by Linkin Park
- The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails
- ‘Till I Collapse by Eminem, Nate Dogg
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welcome back to another super awesome mix. My name is matt. Sit home alongside my co-host and co-founder super awesome mix, sammer abu Samer. How are we doing this week?
Speaker 2:I'm doing well. I am excited for this mix because it's a mix where I think the two of us really shine. You because it's going to be all songs to get you fired up, I'm sure, and me because, as you'll see, it's like all kind of like hard rock songs that get me fired up. So I'm pretty excited. I'm eager to get into this. Why don't you tell the listeners what we did this week?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we put together kind of a workout slash running mix, and certainly we've done the motivation mix, we've done a lot of upbeat mixes, but this one we really tried to keep in mind. Okay, you're going through your workout or you're going on a run and you just want to roll through you know 12 songs that that are going to get you to the finish line, and so that was the intent here yeah, and I had a lot of fun and like listening to this mix.
Speaker 2:we organized it a little bit differently again this week so rather than you know alternating tracks, we almost did it as like. I see it as like an A side, b side. So Matt's first picks are the first six and then mine are the back six and definitely different vibes. But I think it's better having the story be told one through six rather than us alternating. So I hope you enjoy the mix on Spotify, which you can always find our mixes on Spotify. We link them in the show notes, so be sure to give those a like and you can play the music alongside our episodes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think anyone who's listened to the show for a little while know we have kind of different approaches to things anyway. So that's where we thought the A side, b side thing would make a little bit more sense instead of alternating between our different choices.
Speaker 2:You know, the other way I thought about it, like if you and I were instructors at a gym. You know, like this would be your first pick is kind of your first six, or the class that you would run. And then my six are like the class I would run, so you as a listener can decide. You know, maybe we can do a poll like oh whose class are you gonna attend?
Speaker 1:you know, I'm okay, I'm down for that challenge. Okay, which workout class are you attending?
Speaker 2:yeah, okay, let's do this awesome well the day of this release, so it should be thursday. That ideally you're listening. Be sure to check us out on instagram at super awesome mix. If you don't follow us already. There will be a poll in the story and and we will. You know, I'm excited to see those results. We'll see, because really, what you're answering is just who's better at this?
Speaker 1:right like that's that's well, but, as we've talked about on the show, you have been a spin instructor, so you have experience in that field. I yeah, I was a basketball coach. I think that's probably come up on the show before so it you know this isn't completely foreign to us. So yeah, I mean, you know, people could learn something from either one of us in that setting?
Speaker 2:no, absolutely.
Speaker 1:But also like what music are we bringing to the table too? Like that's, that's another part of it. All right, so let's get into the mix then, as Like that's, that's another part of it.
Speaker 2:All right, so let's get into the mix then. As I mentioned, the first six are all Matt's picks, so I'll be introducing them and I'll start with track one. You went with a great song, one of my favorites from from back in the day the Distance by Cake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so if you were running a lot in the mid to late nineties, like I was, this song was definitely on your running mix. Okay, right, it's called the Distance. It describes someone running, but there's also kind of an emotional element to this. This person's kind of going through something too and, hey, working out. I mean, it's a great way to work through some of that, right, like, go for a run, clear your head, you know, throw some weights around, get that anger out. But yeah. So I like this song on two levels, in that, you know, it takes me back to a time when I was running quite a bit and this one always kind of kept me going, but also just kind of reminds us kind of the therapeutic nature of working out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely have run to this mix before. I love Cake. My favorite song of Cake is actually Jolene, which is like a completely different vibe, but they have so many fun, so many fun songs and they haven't done an album since 2011. So it's been a while to like for me to have listened to a song by Cake. It's been a little bit so I was really happy he put this on and kind of reminded me of their existence, because they're awesome.
Speaker 2:My favorite part of the song, other than just like its whole thing, is these lyrics, because I'm going to try not to laugh when I read them, but so of course he says no trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no wine. He's haunted by something he cannot define bowel shaking. Earthquakes of doubt and remorse assail him, impale him with a monster drug force, and I I've always heard him sing these. You know these are lyrics that you could very easily kind of listen along to, but to just read them, for some reason it just made me laugh so much and really appreciate them the bowel shaking or bowel shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse right like if that's not an emotional picture painted right there all right, which, uh, you know as, as someone who also has done cross-country and has run a couple half marathons, sometimes right in the beginning of those runs you kind of feel a lot of doubt and remorse about what you're doing.
Speaker 2:Those first couple of miles you're like why am I here? Why, aren't I just lying on my couch?
Speaker 1:mile one or two. There's definitely remorse, for sure. Yeah, why am I sure? Why did I undertake? Yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 2:All right, great pick. So track two. You've got Juice parentheses. Know the Ledge by Eric B and Rakeem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this was originally on the soundtrack to the movie Juice, which starred Tupac and Omar Epps. I think it was right around 1990, 91. Oddly, tupac is not on the soundtrack, but there's a lot of great rap and R&B on that soundtrack, so definitely worth checking out the whole thing. But I love this song. It's just got a great beat right from the beginning. It's about hustling and surviving, so I think it's really good for getting you going during a workout or a run and it's got a good rhythm to it and the rhythm stays up throughout. I think what I realized listening back to my part of the mix is the songs that I pick are pretty steady rhythmically, which I think is important when you're working out or running, but yeah, this one definitely fits the bill and it's just an awesome song, even if you don't want to work out.
Speaker 2:I agree the opening beat is great, fantastic lyrics. I did not know the song, but I was very happy to have discovered it and I love listening the whole way through. I also got a kick out of Know. The ledge is basically knowledge. Is is what he's kind of like riffing on, and I just thought that was so great, very clever, and the band also reminded me a little bit of jurassic five, if you're familiar with them yeah, great hip-hop group, and so I was like for this.
Speaker 1:I really liked it. Yeah, jurassic five right around that same era too, so that would make sense yeah, yeah, it's great nice one.
Speaker 2:I was happy to be introduced to, uh, to this one. All right. Track three a, a song that I actually have done remixes to in my spin class, so this one I I really enjoy.
Speaker 1:Every teardrop is a waterfall by coldplay yeah, you don't really think of just straight coldplay as a band you can run to. But you're right, I've been in spin classes where they do remixes and there have been a lot of weird Coldplay remixes that I think work as kind of workout or pump-up songs. But this is just the original version, not a remix. But again, going back to what I said a little while ago, I think it's got a really steady rhythm and then the drum picks up as you go along so you can almost like kind of build up in your workout as you're running to this. One Fun fact about this one that I found out is that there was all these references, when I was researching the song, about another song called I Go to Rio by Peter Allen.
Speaker 1:I Go to Rio by Peter Allen and apparently he's given credit in the credits. You know in Coldplay's like liner notes that this song is given credit. So I went back and listened to it. It is straight out of the 70s, right, and it's a terrible song, but the rhythm like you'll listen to it and you will immediately hear this song, and so I thought that was wild because, like, I really like this song. So I thought that was wild because, like I really like this song, but I listened to I go to rio and I was like man, I hate this song. So, um, if you want to, you want to spend about 90 seconds hating a song? Check out I go to rio by peter allen I'm so curious.
Speaker 2:Now that's going to be the first thing I do after we finish this recording.
Speaker 2:I'm so curious. We'll have to report on that next episode. But yeah, you know, I think this one, I agree, you can run to this one without a remix. I do love remix Coldplay though. Actually, one of the very first times that I truly fell in love with spin was in my first class.
Speaker 2:The instructor played a remix of Fix you and I just think there's something magical about Chris Martin's you know, very kind of soft and delicate voice in that song. Mixed with, like some EDM elements, it works so well and I think that that was the aha moment in my brain, like the, you know, the spark was lit of just like I want to do more of this and I want to exercise to music like this, which is then what ended, you know, resulted in me eventually becoming a spin instructor. So I love this pick and I love it just for that reason. I think like there is just like a power to some of their songs like this, especially as they started to get, you know, further in their career, like sky full of stars, you know they, they worked on that, it became very EDM and so, yeah, awesome, great pick, and I cannot wait to go listen to another song and be miserable for 90 seconds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you get to the end, let me know I didn't quite make it to the end, all right, all right.
Speaker 2:Track four you've got Runaways by the Killers. All right. Track four you've got Runaways by the Killers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this is a, I think, somewhat more recent Killers song a couple albums ago, I think in the last five years or so. Title is very much on the nose right. It's got Run in the title, but I think it's just such an amazing song. The drums in this one, I think, are incredible, but I think it's his voice that is really going to carry you through your workout. Like there's so much emotion there. I think that's what's going to push you forward as you're working out. But this is one that I put on workout mixes because, yeah, it just kind of I don't know what it is, but it just gets me really pumped up. I like that yeah.
Speaker 2:It just gets me really pumped up. I like that. Yeah, so I'm going to read you my notes verbatim here, because I typically try to write my notes out free form as I'm listening. So at the start of the song I'm like, okay, is this a running song? Is this only a running song because it's called Runaways?
Speaker 2:Sometimes Matt follows the assignment a little too well a little too well, a little too on the nose, as you said. But then 60 seconds in, the beat picks up and the drums come in, you're like, yeah, okay, I want to run to this. So you know, that was. That was the journey I took, guys all right, I'll take it.
Speaker 1:I'll take it Good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was good. No, I liked it. I mean, the Killers have a lot of picks. I think you can throw on a workout mix. Great band this is. You know, thematically he's thinking about wanting to run away from things. But you can never really run away from anything, right, because like things just always find a way of coming back into your life. So I think that sometimes you know you could be a little bit literal, like you could be literally running away from something, and that could be a motivator. Maybe you're running away from who knows what you're, as we mentioned earlier, like you're using running as a way to like emotionally process, which I definitely do. So why not throw a song on here that is kind of talking about that and letting you, you know, be in that moment there. So good pick, I like it. All right, I like it all right thank you okay.
Speaker 1:Track five um notorious thugs by the notorious b-i-g yeah, this one features Bone Thugs and Harmony, which I think inspired the title Notorious Thugs. I think it's an underrated song. This is off the Life After Death album, which was a double CD, and all the radio hits were on disc one. But if you played disc two, this is the first track on disc two. Um, and I, I love this song and I I come back to it all the time. It's got again the nice steady rhythm. So if you're, if you're running, it's, it's just perfect for while you're running. But um, also like, kicks in enough though to where, if you're just lifting weights or something, it's also going to work there. But yeah, it just does a great job of just keeping up that pace throughout and you know it's just a great song it is I.
Speaker 2:I really like this one. I was also you know, I look at the lyrics, of course, to all of these songs now, as we do these recordings, and I just giggled because, like the first, I don't know, like 75 lines that someone has, I guess, at some point typed into a computer is just. And Biggie, biggie, it's Bone. And Biggie, biggie, just.
Speaker 1:Bone and Biggie. Biggie, it's Bone and Biggie, biggie, it's Bone and Biggie yeah.
Speaker 2:It was a very faithful recreation of the lyrics and I appreciate you. Random internet person. I appreciate that I could follow literally word for word the number of times that they announced that they say it's bone and biggie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if there's any doubt about who you're listening to, it's right there.
Speaker 2:It's right there I've always felt that I need an introduction to anything that I do. I think you know, kind, kind of like DJ Khaled shouts his name out here, we've got a repeated introduction. I need to work on something like that. You know, when I enter a recording of room, it doesn't matter, I'm picking up the phone, I'm going to let you know who you're talking to.
Speaker 1:Right, and just kind of a long-winded way, like we're not getting to the point. It's like all right, Okay, Samer, I just have a quick question.
Speaker 2:And it's like you're going through your whole intro, right, all right.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, you're the best I know, samer. Okay, can we just? I just want to see what time your flight's coming in. Can we just answer the? I'm just going to text you. Okay, right, just answer the.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to text you Okay, right, right, yeah, and text. There's no need for the preamble, it's just a vocal thing.
Speaker 1:There's not yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, great pick, amazing, you know obviously amazing rap song, amazing rap talent on this one. So I really enjoyed it and I agree with you, it's got a good steady beat to kind of run to. That's exactly one of the notes that I wrote here. So nice one, all right. Your last pick, track six, before we flip it over the b-side, is working day and night by michael jackson yeah.
Speaker 1:So this is off the uh, off the wall album. Um, and this one, you know, off the wall. That album came out, I think, around and it's much more. There's a heavy disco influence on it. So when you listen to this one, you're going to hear a lot of that kind of disco sound. It starts fast and it really doesn't stop. So I thought it was ideal for the last pick, because this is going to bring your run home. Like you know you're getting tired, you're at the end of that workout, whatever. Your run home, Like you know you're, you're getting tired, You're at the end of that workout, whatever. And uh, this is going to kick in and and just you know, give you that last bit of that last push to uh, to get you across the finish line.
Speaker 2:Absolutely yeah. And and obviously it's in the title there, right, like you're working day and night, so you're kind of feeling that you, you've got the the lyrics to support you, you've got the lyrics to support you, you've got the energy to support you, and it's Michael Jackson, you know the king of pop. So this is awesome. Yeah, it's a good pick. I like kind of bringing you home with this one nice one alright.
Speaker 1:So we're going to take the record off the turntable and we're going to flip it over to listen to Samra's picks. So you start off with a Muse song, but not the song everybody's thinking of, to listen to Samra's picks. So you start off with a Muse song, but not the song everybody's thinking of.
Speaker 2:Okay, you go with Knights of Cydonia by Muse. Yes, knights of Cydonia. I love the intro to this song. You know we just did a recording of kind of walk-up and intro songs. This one could have gone on there, but maybe it runs a little bit too long before the thing starts.
Speaker 2:But's, it's so strange, it's like there's horses galloping, you know, there's like a bunch of different musical elements that start to come in, but then, like, the beat kicks in and for me, literally, this is the song that I will start my runs to. So for me, you know, lately I live right by Central Park I will hit play right as the cross light turns, you know white for me to cross and start my run into the park and by the time I've, like, crossed the bridge and now I'm on, like, the running path. It's almost, it's like exactly perfectly timed to where the music comes in. So I love that like, that to me is the beginning of my run. I've got my energy up, I'm a little bit warmed up walking to the park and I'm set up, you know, to go the rest of the way.
Speaker 2:So the first couple of minutes of a run are great, the next 45 are terrible and then the last 15 are great. So these first couple of minutes are really critical, though it's a lot of fun. I love the song for that. But yeah, that's um. You know, it's muse, it's electronic, it's rock, it's all the things I.
Speaker 1:I absolutely adore them for that, yeah, and there's some horns in there, I think at some point right, yeah, which I loved. I was like that's a really good touch. It's a very big sounding song, like I really liked, uh, this one, and then I mean the lyrics that they kind of go over and over. It's's like you and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive. And you know, sometimes that's all we're doing when we're working out right, we're just fighting to survive.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly, it's either that or diabetes. So you know, just keep working out, gotta keep that away. I do love sugar. It's terrible, I'm getting old.
Speaker 1:That diabetes mention brought to you by the Diabetes Foundation.
Speaker 2:No, we're not doing.
Speaker 1:PSAs yet. No, sorry, apologies, no, no, apologies out there.
Speaker 2:No, we're still just doing paid promos Brought to you by Mars Corporation.
Speaker 2:Brought to you by the M&M Mars. People Eat more sugar. But yeah, so great. Yeah, great opening track if you want to start a run. But just just be careful, don't sprint Right, you don't want to, you don't want to let the energy take you too high, because I've done that, obviously, and you kind of sprint to the beginning of a run and then you're just going to feel miserable the rest of it. So let this be, you know, a peppy start, but keep that speed under control.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, All right, now your next pick. I feel like this title includes three things that could motivate someone who's running and it's gold guns, girls by metric.
Speaker 2:I like that. I had not considered that the second item in that might be you're motivated because of something you know behind you.
Speaker 2:I didn't say how you're motivated, okay, I just said they could all three motivate one to run yeah, fair, fair, yeah, but yeah, this is, um, just a song that honestly just makes me want to move immediately. It has such a perfect running beat. I think it's been used. In fact, um, it's been a while since I watched this movie, but I think it was used in zombie land during, like a running scene. It just has that vibe to it like you are being chased or you are chasing something, whatever it might be. It would make for a really good running montage, and metric has been featured on this podcast before we um, I put them on a mix whenever we're talking about women who rock, so had to bring them back, because this is another one of their songs that I absolutely love great vocals, great rock sound, just great tempo yeah, and this one you know you mentioned bone and biggie earlier being repeated like 75 times when I looked at the lyrics for this one is it ever going to be enough?
Speaker 1:is said, like I don't know, 40 times in this one right, but I think also like very appropriate, like when you're running like is it ever going to be enough, is it ever going?
Speaker 2:to be enough. Is it ever going to be enough? Yes, exactly yeah. The answer is no, you just got to keep running. No, you just yeah that's right.
Speaker 1:There is that the answer is no, but no, I agree. Great song. I mean, yeah, I remembered them from the women who rock mix and, yeah, this song rocks as well. So so great pick for a running mix. Now, speaking of reasons to run, okay, you may need to work some of this out of your system, but you've got toxicity by system of a down.
Speaker 2:Nice Good segue. I like that one. Thank you, I'm getting better. I feel like, yeah, we'll get closer to that 100th episode.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm rounding into form Right.
Speaker 2:Our segues are going to be off the wall. Oh, that could have been perfect. Perfect for the Michael Jackson one a couple songs back. All right, so Toxicity by System of a Down. Personal story on this one. So I ran cross country in high school. I had never run before for like a sport, only because of, let's say, bees chasing after me. True story, like that was the only other time that I wanted to run. Um, but I needed a pe credit to graduate and it was like my junior year and I hadn't done anything yet. I was like, oh shoot, what is like the least amount of sport that I can do to count as a sport? And it was like cross country. That sounds good. All you do is run right, like I can run. And the first time I ran, literally I got on a treadmill because I was way too terrified to run outside. I couldn't even do a quarter mile without just really feeling I was gonna die right could not even complete a quarter mile yeah
Speaker 2:um, now, many years have passed and I've reached the half marathon. I'm still really wanting to do a full one day if my knees would cooperate, but I I just you know, I didn't know yet, but I would learn to love running anyway. All that to say one of the amp up songs that we would listen to on our meet days. Um, in the bus, someone would bring, like a disc man or, I guess, one of the early, early mp3s, but more often than not it was a disc man. We'd hook it up some speakers and we'd listen to this album by system of a down, because there's no band on earth that will get you more fired up it's like a bunch of teenage boys on a bus than system of a down yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:I I wrote on this like I have to just wait 15 seconds and this one just completely kicks in and I was like I I may start sprinting if I'm listening to this while I'm running yes, yeah, I use this one for interval runs.
Speaker 2:Actually because of that, like on the chorus hits, I will sprint, and then on everything else, on the verses, I'll just kind of slow down a bit because, yeah, like the energy is so high, you just have to, you just have to start flying whenever all the sound hits in. Great, I love system of a down yeah they are a favorite of mine.
Speaker 1:I think it could also work if you're like on a bench press, if you're trying to max out your bench press like just just time it out to where you're about to. Like you know, do it right around the chorus when it kicks in again and yeah, I think you could set a personal best there yeah, all right, a few more picks here so we can go along with this next title. We are one step closer by lincoln park all right now.
Speaker 2:You're just All right One Step Closer by Linkin Park. Linkin Park is another band I listened to a lot in high school, especially around the time of being in cross country, so it has remained on these mixes for so many years now. They are also just an awesome rock group that you know. I think like early on in my memory. I feel like they were one of the first groups that I listened to, that kind of started to mix electronic and rock together. That worked really well, and so I'm still kind of like I went through many, many years where I'd kind of forgotten about Linkin Park and then, honestly, in this last year, have rediscovered them and put them back on a lot of just my normal mixes or things that I listen to as I work throughout the day, because, yeah, they're still kind of awesome, like I really like them, um.
Speaker 2:This is, you know, one that I yeah, I had their cds. I would listen to them in my car all the time. I would run to them, um, and and still do to this day so definitely like a good upbeat, kind of uptempo rock song to run to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love the energy on this one, the lyric everything you say to me brings me one step closer to the edge. You know, I, just, I just love that, love, that sentiment, and then just also the you know what you're one step closer to your goal, right Like you're keeping this workout going, keeping that run going, and you're just one step closer. So I think it works on a couple of different levels there. But yeah, great pick, great pick, all right. Next up, you've got the Hand that Feeds by Nine Inch Nails.
Speaker 2:Right. So this is a protest song. Love a good protest song. I seem to pick a lot of them. Song, love a good protest song. I seem to pick a lot of them and I I don't know why, but I guess maybe, like rock has always kind of had a history of kind of being protest and then obviously, like I think they're, they often are very high energy songs as well, especially in this genre.
Speaker 2:But, um, as a result it, you know, because it's high energy I love to run to this one, this one in particular by nine inch nails has this really good running tempo to it as well, and so now I have like a running rock mix and this is on it all the time. I will typically play this, I'd say maybe like 30-ish minutes into it, into a run, where you kind of need you need that good boost, um, and you need a song that's pretty consistent throughout.
Speaker 2:Like you don't want this point, you don't want any lulls in the energy because you hit one like you're going to want to slow down, uh, so this is a good one, to where it's like start to finish, like it'll carry you through, um, so that's why I picked this one here yeah, great, great energy to carry you through.
Speaker 1:But I think also, you know, protest or not, I think the lyrics will push you through too. Right, will you stay down on your knees? Right, will you bite the hand that feeds you, like I think that's going to push you forward, just lyrically, along with just the energy that the music's bringing. So, yeah, I really like this song and I thought it was just very unique like audio wise too, like it was really really cool to listen to. So, yeah, great pick, great pick.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:All right, last one here and I love this one. Almost included it on mine, but decided not to, so I'm really glad you did. Okay, till I Collapse by Eminem and Nate Dogg.
Speaker 2:Right? I mean, this is one of the ultimate kind of finish strong songs, right? I think if we did a mixtape of how do you make sure you never quit, it would be one song and it would just be this one. We wouldn't need 11 other ones. When I was taking them with other instructors, and there was one in particular where it was remixed with, like a choir singing in the background. That's one of my. I've mentioned a couple of things that I really love. One is like orchestra plus rock. Another one is choir plus rock, like we can bring in a choir into like a rock song my mind is blown, it's so good.
Speaker 2:And so choir into like a rap song works the same way, like you have two very different kind of contrasting musical elements brought together and it works beautifully. And anyway, all that to say, like, I just have this really distinct memory of listening to this song. She played it, the instructor played it really late, into a very long. It was like one of these extended spin classes where we're pushing like 75 minutes in that room. You are exhausted. You honestly, like can barely feel and move your legs.
Speaker 2:This song comes on and you just like you know you're gonna finish, like you just have to finish, like you can't allow yourself to have come this far in this workout and like the thought of like stopping then means that everything that you did to this point was just so you could quit and you and you're like hell, no, like I did not work out this much and get this far in my run and the spin class, whatever it is that you're doing in order for me not to take this thing all the way home.
Speaker 2:So love this song. It is often one of my like closing tracks because of just that, that feeling, that message that you give it everything you got and like. For me, what I'm telling myself honestly is I'm nearing a finish line of a long run is like I don't care if you're like walking across. The point is you don't stop. Like you finish that finish line. And that's what I would always tell my um you know class, whenever I was a spin instructor of like remember why you came in here, remember what you started. Like, if you are tired of feeling that you're starting over all the time, then stop starting over all the time. Right, like take yourself to the end. Whatever that looks like for you. There's no judgment, but just keep pushing. So that is what all this song is in my head and I absolutely love it so good no, love, yeah, love all that.
Speaker 1:Love this song. Yeah, I love how Eminem is essentially yelling at you through the entire song. Right, you can collapse just listening to the song, like just the effort it takes to sing the song. But yeah, no, it's awesome. It's definitely going to get you, yeah, to where you want to go, and it's a great way to finish off this workout mix.
Speaker 2:So it's a nice work Awesome.
Speaker 1:So there you have it, another super awesome mix for your collection. Of course, we're going to put up that Instagram poll to see who you'd rather work out with, whether it's me or Samer, okay.
Speaker 2:Can't wait, yep, can't wait.
Speaker 1:And if the results are in my favor, we'll mention it on a future episode. If not, we'll never talk about it again. Um, but either way, we're going to work on another super awesome mix for your collection, and so for sam, or this is matt, and we will see you next time.