The 44 Best Workout Songs of 2022

The musician behind “Honeypie” is back, this time teamed with a rollicking cymbal-crashing-all-hell-breaks-loose Beck we haven’t seen since the Odelay days.

The opener off White’s Fear of Dawn is a rallying cry of fuzzed guitars, thrashed drums, and other-worldly blasts of synth.

Jordan Lieb lends his signature dark discoteque beats while Leah makes it very clear that nothing should stand in the way of putting in the work.

The Australian dance pop duo inadvertently created the bench-press motivation track you didn’t know you needed.

To a guitar line that evokes Ozzy, this LA-based punk rock group goes hard on the status quo.

Three-minutes of smashing, sprinting, all-over-the-place psycho-self-analysis to leave you winded.

If the entirety of Diaspora Problems is an explosive experience, the opener lights the fuse.

The Boston metal band flat-out unleashes on this pile-up of double-kicks and feedback.

In just under two minutes, the reunited British death metal will bring you to your knees.

The Japanese singer-songwriter mixes all sorts of sounds into this garage-rock-trap-beat-auto-tuned power anthem.

The Men’s Health transformation star begins this track with a window crash and maniacal laugh and then runs the lyrical equivalent of a victory lap.

“Life isn’t ice cream without Monopoly dough.
The property grows in value, and rightfully so.”

The hip-hop icon swaggers over a throwback beat: “How many still standin’ reflectin’ in that mirror? Lucky me.”

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The perpetually masked rapper blasts and trills in one of the many bangers off her appropriately named 2022 album Shape Up.

Three English fury-rapping verses between 90s-dance choruses? It doesn’t make any sense until you hear it for yourself.

By mixing stadium-anthem guitar, pop-punk lyrics, and hip-hop beats, Strange is doing his own thing entirely. On “Wretched,” he’s everything all at once—and unstoppable.

Finish strong, as they say.

Swedish black metal stalwarts drive hard for four minutes of what sounds very similar to the panic that ensues when being trapped beneath the bench press without a spotter.

If you took “Staring Down the Barrel of a Gun” from Paul’s Boutique, and blasted inside the Mack R-600 Coolpower from Mad Max 2, you’d have the force of nature that is this track’s backbeat. Sit vocalist Ian Shelton inside the driver’s seat, road-raging out the window, and hooooold on.

I’m doing this for revenge // I’m doing this to try and stay true // I’m doing this for the ones // They had to leave behind // I’m doing this for you

The doom metal band is from Florida, which is wild, because when you’re back-attacked mid-song you would swear they’re from ALL NINE CIRCLES OF HELL.

The British grime duo goes so over-the-top that lines like Underwater movements, I’m not talking Krusty Krab // I’m Spongebob at the bank, put the money in the bag sound like battle cries.

Moshing is a workout too.

Hip-hop’s forward-thinkers assemble to deliver a one-foot-two-foot march that fits right in to that hill slog on your 10-mile route.

This sound bomb rages through electronica, nails-on-chalkboard guitar, and a vocal delivery that would make Zack de La Rocha say ddddaaaaayyyumm.

Karen O., paying homage to Duran Duran, lifting by a tornado of strings, delivers the track that should blare during the last mile of every marathon ever.

Four-and-a-half minutes of guitar brutality that’ll make your sweat before your workout even starts.

Off a concept album about superfund sites, this rage-fest goes 1,000 percent so you have to dig deep within the corners of your soul to keep up.

Nasty Nas runs a victory lap over strings with each bar a proof of concept in hustle hustle hustle.

“Find me” this Puerto Rican trio shouts over a beat that (appropriately) sounds like it could have been off of 1998’s Run Lola Run.

Oh, you like double-kick drums? How about a-million-kick drums? To sweeping dual heaven-hell vocals? And the sound of the world being torn asunder? Enjoy!

For when you want to go fast.

Yeah, okay, it’s jazz. But it also has rhythm—the kind that can power a long treadmill workout or your traverse of vast expanses of open pavement.

I don’t want no struggles // I don’t want no fears

While this Jerry Butler doesn’t fly off to the start of “Born to Run,” it picks up—and will pick you up too.

You’re going to need it.

Bey and Grace Jones take command, break stuff, and leave everyone else behind.

Hair-metal guitar riffs, spaceships, piano bridges, and a total sense of the unhinged collide in this act of rebellion.

The return of nu-metal brings a character selection screen song that Liu Kang would looove.

Ear-bleeding London hardcore artists scream, rattle, and ascend through a terrifying power anthem. You think you’ve made your escape // But we’re catching up again

Take stock body or not // It gets better or it rots

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