Get Your Lawn On

Wanna know the ultimate, cardio fabulous mix for lawn mowing and getting a cardio vascular heart-pumped workout? As a trained fitness professional, I am here to give you the "skinny". :)

This mix works you out great if you:Don't give a crap what your neighbors think and dance while mowing whenever the mood strikes. Seriously. Dance. Wiggle your butt while lawn mowing.
Push the mower as fast as you possibly can, with as few stops as possible.
Sing along (or at least quietly lip sinc the words as they go). This last step increases your cardio vascular impact significantly, so if you don't know the songs, learn them.

Here is the Mix, direct from me to you.

1. Come Baby Come-- K7
   
2. White Wedding-- Billy Idol
   
3. Superfreak-- Rick James
   
4. Push It-- Salt N Pepa
   
5. Bitch-- Meredith Brooks
   
6. Housequake-- Prince (from the Sign O' the Times album)*
   
7. Blister in the Sun-- Violent Femmes
   
8. Celebrity Skin-- Hole
   
9. Wild Horses-- The Sundays
   
10. 99 Red Balloons-- Goldfinger (important to get this version, not Nena's-- Goldfinger rocks it more)
    
11. Banditos-- The Refreshments
    
12. You Dropped a Bomb on Me-- The Gap Band
    
13. My Adidas-- Run DMC
    
14. In Da Club-- 50 Cent
    
15. Goin Back to Cali-- LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool J!)
    
16. Musicology-- Prince
    
17. Brick House-- The Commodores
    
18. Volcano Girl-- Veruca Salt
    
19. My Sharona--The Knack
    

The only bad things are when your "earbud" headphones fall out of your ears. Or you can't figure out how to use your husband's damn gas powered edger. Or when a big giant spider, fleeing the mower, freaks and almost jumps on you, causing you to choke the lawnmower and lose your grove.

The good things: you will be majorly sweaty if your lawn is as big as mine is (not really all that big). I was "done" with the lawn part by My Adidas-- and the rest is the "edger mix".

This mix could, of course, be applied to other tasks. It's a really groovin' list, right here for you in our studios tonight.

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*Amazing spellchecker adventures here: how does blogger spell check NOT have the word Blog in it, but does have "hoosegow"-- which it suggested instead of Housequake? Hmmm?