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latespring) wrote2022-09-04 04:04 pm
latespring) wrote2022-09-04 04:04 pm
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finding the ultimate skz jogging playlist (only slightly clickbait)
Have you ever been jogging and wished the tempo of the song to which you were jogging matched your steps? Well, me too!
I'm here to answer your burning question: when I'm jogging, what Stray Kids song will best take my workout from a slump to on track? What song will be my booster? What song is really at my pace? (Ok sorry, I love you, the rest of the post will be serious.)
I listen to a lot of kpop when I'm walking around the neighborhood, and I wanted something that would match my steps when I was doing it, hence this post.
Why me?
What are my credentials? Why should you trust me about this? Well, in addition to having listened through skz's discography going on 3 or 4 times in a row for this post, I play multiple instruments, and I'm pretty good at keeping a rhythm. I am not mr. bang chan, but I'd say I'm familiar enough with their music by this point to give you a good playlist.
Background
There's some research out there to suggest listening to music has a positive effect on you when working out. I'm not going to get too into it, since I have not studied exercise science in depth. This post is also not going to get into any recommendations about exercise, that's super not my lane.
What I do want to talk about is the average bpm of jogging (this also applys to walking if that's your vibe). This was kind of hard to look up because what I was looking for is actually the cadance of your steps, or how many times steps per minute you take while on the move. Most running articles, when talking about bpm, are talking (understandably) about heartbeat.
The tl;dr on that article above is that the shorter your steps are, the quicker your steps are. Most recreational runners have a cadence around 150 to 170spm. We'll come back to that number.
This is relevant because it's how I determined which songs were ideal for a playlist. Steps per minute (spm) is what will correspond directly to the bpm of the song. Ideally, what I'm looking for in my own playlist is for one step to equal one beat of the song. In an ideal world, spm = bpm.*
*(There's some research on matching your heartbeat bpm to the bpm of the song instead, but that's not what I'm going for. Additionally, there's some lists floating around the internet about different bpms for different exercises, but again, not my area of expertise.)
Methods
So, on to the songs.
First, I pulled skz's current discography from wikipedia, and put that into a spreadsheet. This might have led me to skipping some songs, which I'm sorry about! I also limited this to songs you can find on spotify.
I then put all of these songs on a playlist on spotify. (When possible I pulled the rerecorded version of the song, but there's a few skz haven't gotten to yet.)
Then I then went through and manually calculated the bpm for each song. I double checked my work with a couple of websites like tunebat. In cases where the bpm I would feel while playing or performing the song differed from the bpm I would use to exercise or work out to, I defaulted to the latter. Sometimes music that sounds slow is counted fast, which is good to know but not relevant for this.
After that, I went through and sorted the playlist according to my spreadsheet.
Here, we return to the number 150-170spm. Songs in the 150-170bpm that were also high energy were songs like God's Menu, Domino, and Thunderous. Nothing really surprising there.
Having this list, I pulled a list of songs around that bpm into a playlist. (If you're creating a walking playlist, the same concept would apply.) Which then leads us to the results:
The Playlist
According to science*, the best skz song to play during your jog: depends on how fast you run.
*this is not science
Sorry! This is one of those questions where the answer varies based on who you are and how fast your feet hit the pavement. If you want to make your own playlist, here's my spreadsheet and playlist for reference.
However, I have pulled together a couple of playlists for jogging, depending on how fast you go!
Try these tempos on for size: 120-140bpm, 140-160bpm, 150-170bpm, 160-180bpm.
And that's it! Let me know what you thought or if you have any suggestions. There's a few points where I've messed up the bpm of a song after editing this too many times, I'd love to hear if you spot anything.
I'm here to answer your burning question: when I'm jogging, what Stray Kids song will best take my workout from a slump to on track? What song will be my booster? What song is really at my pace? (Ok sorry, I love you, the rest of the post will be serious.)
I listen to a lot of kpop when I'm walking around the neighborhood, and I wanted something that would match my steps when I was doing it, hence this post.
Why me?
What are my credentials? Why should you trust me about this? Well, in addition to having listened through skz's discography going on 3 or 4 times in a row for this post, I play multiple instruments, and I'm pretty good at keeping a rhythm. I am not mr. bang chan, but I'd say I'm familiar enough with their music by this point to give you a good playlist.
Background
There's some research out there to suggest listening to music has a positive effect on you when working out. I'm not going to get too into it, since I have not studied exercise science in depth. This post is also not going to get into any recommendations about exercise, that's super not my lane.
What I do want to talk about is the average bpm of jogging (this also applys to walking if that's your vibe). This was kind of hard to look up because what I was looking for is actually the cadance of your steps, or how many times steps per minute you take while on the move. Most running articles, when talking about bpm, are talking (understandably) about heartbeat.
The tl;dr on that article above is that the shorter your steps are, the quicker your steps are. Most recreational runners have a cadence around 150 to 170spm. We'll come back to that number.
This is relevant because it's how I determined which songs were ideal for a playlist. Steps per minute (spm) is what will correspond directly to the bpm of the song. Ideally, what I'm looking for in my own playlist is for one step to equal one beat of the song. In an ideal world, spm = bpm.*
*(There's some research on matching your heartbeat bpm to the bpm of the song instead, but that's not what I'm going for. Additionally, there's some lists floating around the internet about different bpms for different exercises, but again, not my area of expertise.)
Methods
So, on to the songs.
First, I pulled skz's current discography from wikipedia, and put that into a spreadsheet. This might have led me to skipping some songs, which I'm sorry about! I also limited this to songs you can find on spotify.
I then put all of these songs on a playlist on spotify. (When possible I pulled the rerecorded version of the song, but there's a few skz haven't gotten to yet.)
Then I then went through and manually calculated the bpm for each song. I double checked my work with a couple of websites like tunebat. In cases where the bpm I would feel while playing or performing the song differed from the bpm I would use to exercise or work out to, I defaulted to the latter. Sometimes music that sounds slow is counted fast, which is good to know but not relevant for this.
After that, I went through and sorted the playlist according to my spreadsheet.
Here, we return to the number 150-170spm. Songs in the 150-170bpm that were also high energy were songs like God's Menu, Domino, and Thunderous. Nothing really surprising there.
Having this list, I pulled a list of songs around that bpm into a playlist. (If you're creating a walking playlist, the same concept would apply.) Which then leads us to the results:
The Playlist
According to science*, the best skz song to play during your jog: depends on how fast you run.
*this is not science
Sorry! This is one of those questions where the answer varies based on who you are and how fast your feet hit the pavement. If you want to make your own playlist, here's my spreadsheet and playlist for reference.
However, I have pulled together a couple of playlists for jogging, depending on how fast you go!
Try these tempos on for size: 120-140bpm, 140-160bpm, 150-170bpm, 160-180bpm.
And that's it! Let me know what you thought or if you have any suggestions. There's a few points where I've messed up the bpm of a song after editing this too many times, I'd love to hear if you spot anything.
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