#41. Making music that is impossible to exercise to.

I wish this one wasn’t true, but it is. I think there are maybe two good Christian songs to exercise to. Seriously, have you ever tried to play DC Talk or Jeremy Camp on your iPod and get angry enough to lift weights? It doesn’t work. I’m sorry Jeremy, no offense. Toby Mac you’re still my boy. But even when you guys try to get angry it still kind of sounds nice. I mean, I want to run to “Jesus Freak.” I want throw some stacks of weights around to some Chris Tomlin, but it’s not working. So when it comes to working out, I have to push pause on the praise and listen to Nas and Big Daddy Kane and Eric B. and Rakim. I don’t want to, but “I am a friend of God” blasting through my ears is just not doing it.

Prove me wrong. Post a great Christian exercise song.

(And if you suggest Switchfoot’s “Gone” which is a fine song but not a gym song, I’m not sure we can be friends anymore.)