Whilst running I enjoy listening to music, and I’ve noticed that there is a lot of music out there that is good for me to run to, and music that is not so good. Music, to me is a very emotional evoking media that with either push me or destroy my motivation. So far I have found the following all have a motivational effect:

Katy Perry – California Gurl, Any Danny Byrd, Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow, Christina Aguilera – Ain’t No Other Man, Lady Gaga – Telephone, Sergio Mendes – Mas Que Nada, The Bloody Beetroots – Yeyo

And these have a ‘dangerous’ effect on my workout by making me feel angry, but motivated:

Any System of a Down, any Marilyn Manson, a lot of Eminem, Slipknot and Korn, basically any rock and angry rap!

However, my ‘power songs’ are:

Prodigy – Voodoo People, Pussy Cat Dolls – Buttons, The Streets – Fit But You Know It

Yes, you did read right, a song about a female chav who thinks she is too good for the ‘average man’ with the video set part in Ibiza and part in the UK is one of my power songs. I don’t know what it is about that song, it might be the beat, it might be that it reminds me of the UK and it might be that I secretly like the song. So, let the jibes begin.

What’s your power song?