Today is a big day on the work front. I have four fitness assessments to perform on potential personal training clients and then, later this afternoon, I will be teaching my first group exercise class!
I wrote down a basic outline for the water fitness class I will be teaching last night and created a rockin’ workout playlist with lots of classic hits that I hope the class will enjoy. Thank you guys so much for your fantastic song recommendations in the comments section of yesterday’s post, on Facebook and on Twitter. Ryan and I had a little too much fun blasting throwback music from the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ’80s last night. (We also had a pretty good time laughing about the songs I should try to slip into the playlist to get a rise out of everyone. Ha!)
Below you will find the playlist I created for today’s class. I hope you guys find it uplifting and energizing!
Oldies But Goodies Workout Playlist
- Dion & The Belmonts – Runaround Sue
- The Temptations – Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
- Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone
- Stevie Wonder – Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
- Steam – Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
- Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue
- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- Ray Charles – Hit the Road Jack
- Michael Jackson – P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- American Breed – Bend Me Shape Me
- Amii Stewart – Knock On Wood
- The Blues Brothers – Soul Man
- The Temptations – The Way You Do The Things You Do
- Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al
- Aretha Franklin – Think
- Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Lovin’
- Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock
Breakfast
Eggs called to me this morning, so I made myself a breakfast sandwich with two eggs, a toasted whole wheat English muffin, muenster cheese and avocado slices.
It was delicious!
I’ve been eating lots of overnight oats, peanut butter and banana sandwiches and yogurt bowls with berries and homemade almond butter granola for breakfast since I’ve been packing my morning meal to take to the gym with me to eat during my early shift, so it was nice to mix it up a bit with eggs this morning.
Off to work! I hope you have a great day!
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Love the playlist – may add some of these songs to my own list. Good luck with the water fitness class. I look forward to hear about it.
Love your playlist! I don’t know most of these songs but I’m always looking for new things to pump me up 🙂
Breakfast looks yum. Have a wonderful day!
Great songs! I’m only just starting to eat eggs. They’re still not something I really like – I’d much prefer oats, granola, yogurt, nut butter, etc for breakfast – but I’m not so terrified of them anymore haha. Good luck today!
Looks like a good playlist! I would have added more 80s but understand it is for the oldies 😉 hehe.
Goodluck with the class sure you will do well!
Love the looks of that playlist! I love oldies jams (I keep a couple mixes in my car) and it’d be so fun to workout to some of my favorites! Good luck with your first class!
Fun playlist! I love listening to oldies and some of hose 80’s songs are perfect for working out to.
Love this playlist! Definitely going to be downloading a lot of these. Good luck today!
I love oldies music, I actually have a few of these already! Haha, I might have to add some more!
Go girl! I want to be in that class!! 🙂 looking forward to hearing how it will go, you’re going to do great!
Love the playlist. Good luck with your first class- I can’t wait to hear about how great it went 😉
That breakfast looks amazing!! I love eggs and avocado together, especially in sandwich form!
Good luck with your class this afternoon! You will do great :).
Love that Elvis is on this list, good luck at work!
There are some gems in this playlist!
I love avocado and eggs together–it’s an awesome combination! I actually just had an egg and avocado sandwich for breakfast, too! 🙂 Best of luck with your first class!
I’m lovin’ the oldies playlist! Happy Tuesday!
Good luck with your busy day! I loooove this playlist. I coach cheerleading and I always put classic rock and oldies in our routine music. At first the girls are always like, what the heck is this? And by the end of the season they are singing along with Aretha and Stevie. It’s so much better than using “today’s hits” aka every squad will have the same 3 songs in their music and I get to listen to all my fave songs over and over 🙂
Sometimes oldies are the best! Love the look of this playlist. Sounds like you have a busy day ahead, hope it all goes to plan!
Good luck teaching – you will totally rock it and your rockin’ playlist will help tons too!
lovvvve this playlist! I am such a fan of oldies, theres always at least a few oldies on every playlist I make 🙂 Good luck with your day!!
Have so much fun teaching today! You’re going to rock it!
Awesome playlist! I love overnight oats…I eat them a lot for breakfast as well!
Playlists are so important for a good fitness class! I am glad that you took the time to make a good one!
Sounds like a busy and fun day – good luck and have fun! 🙂
Hi Julie!!! Great playlist, would love to be in the workout class :):) Curious to know, since your morning routine has changed, has your eating schedule been hard to adjust to? Did you add ann early morning meal to eat upon waking up or do you wait until you get to work?
I don’t think the words “almond butter” should be allowed to come out of your mouth…errr…fingers…
I think it’s amazing that you incorporated Paul Simon in a workout playlist…You are my hero. Good luck today 🙂
Good luck with your first class! I’m sure you’ll be amazing. I’m super jealous of your breakfast avocado. I forgot to pick avocados up this week and I’m missing them like crazy!
You should definitely throw in some Gangham style. Haha
Have fun today! Your avocados look so yummy!
The Build Me Up Buttercup station on pandora is great for these kinds of songs!!!
Good luck today! I’m sure you’ll do great!
Finally someone posts a playlist that I can recognize 😉 Great one!
Good luck Julie! I know it’ll go great! I’m looking forward to reading about it later :D!
Have fun today!!! Looks like they def will, by the looks of that playlist 🙂
I love the playlist!!! Can’t wait to hear how your first class goes 🙂
Great songs and I really liked the breakfast dish photos! You inspire me.
Love the playlist!
Also, I HAD to shard my lunch idea for today with you. I used a boxed Thai Sweet Potato Soup added some leftover brown rice while the soup heated on the stove, then toped it off with cilantro and two dobs of Peanut Butter! Frappin Awesome!
http://www.pacificfoods.com/our-foods/carton-soups/thai-sweet-potato-soup
Great playlist! I love jammin to the oldies!
Oh yeah! That’s my kinda playlist and I’m not afraid to admit it haha!
What a fun playlist! I’m running a 10-miler this weekend and will definitely throw a few of these on the playlist.
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New reader here, just wanted to say I am loving your blog! Thanks for all of your work!
Love the songs! And may I say that avocado looks delicious!
I love egg sandwiches, yum!! And that granola, I am making that asap..it looks so tasty!
That breakfast looks sooo good!!
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I love the list. It reminds me on jumping on the couch when I was 5 years old 🙂
Good luck today
Now all these oldies but goodies are stuck in my head! Good luck today! 🙂
Hi, regular reader here:) i have a q… I’m constantly trying to lose weight (eating 1200 cals a day of 95% clean eating and exercise 4 x a week.) how many cals would you say are in your breakfast here? And how many cals u would eat if trying to lose weight?
I love so many of those songs that you posted for the playlist! It would be fun to dance/work out to! 🙂
I have a really silly question. How do I get the songs from your playlist (at least some of them)? I’ve never created a playlist before. I usually just download music off of CDs onto my MP3 player (I don’t even have an IPhone, etc.). I am so computer illiterate it’s not even funny. Do you have to buy the songs you have on your playlist? Thanks for helping me out.