Every girl needs to replace the heels with trainers once in a while and donning some headphones can be a great motivator.

What do you listen to when you’re running? I put this as my Facebook status, and got a varied response, the best being “the sound of my lungs dying”, a 45 minute Rocky montage and a YouTube link to a live video of “Call on Me”, circa about 6 years ago.

This encouraged me to search far and wide to find the most varied and eclectic top ten work out songs to keep you moving, with a mix of old and new, alternative and classic. So, put your headphones on and get downloading. If you don’t like it, try the Very Best of Euphoric Dance 1998, it’s probably just as good!

Let’s Go – The Shoes

Excusing the obvious motivational based song name, this 3.18 minutes of French electro is the best you’re going to find to stop you from either pressing the stop button on the treadmill, or turning around and going home.

Cascada – Everytime We Touch

My Dad’s personal favourite. If Cascada can appeal to men in the midst of a mid-life crisis, then it can certainly keep you on an exercise bike.

Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt – We are Scientists

By now, you’re possibly feeling that not moving might be the best possible option. After about 8 minutes of drum machines and euro-pop synthesisers, a driving indie anthem is probably just what you need.

The Time is Now – Moloko

If something a little more relaxed is called for, slow down a little bit by enjoying the first 1.16 of this classic, baring in mind when the strings come in you’re probably going to need to quicken the pace.

Keep the Car Running – Arcade Fire

Make like a car and do what they say. Perfect for mid-run blues, or as marathon runners call it “hitting the wall”. A relatively calm and placid tune, but with an underlying driving rhythm (see what I did there) to keep you going.

Roc Boys – Jay Z

In response to my Facebook status, someone replied “gangsta rap…makes me feel like I’m running through the hood away from bullets and the like”. This is fairly dissimilar to other Jay Z songs; it has trumpets and fairly happy lyrics. Imagine you’re running the marathon, and dodging bullets, simultaneously.

Ooh Wee – Mark Ronson

Think trumpets, think Mark Ronson? Well, I do. This is from his album, “Here Comes the Fuzz”, and isn’t a cover, funnily enough, but it is very good, so keep going and pretend you’re one of the dancers in Honey.

Set You Free – N-Trance

This song is fairly ubiquitous on every “club classics” CD out there, although that is no reason as to why you shouldn’t work out to it. I vaguely remember it being on a compilation CD I was given aged about 10, so this one has probably been successfully jogged out to by many an athlete.

Sandstorm – Darude

Your treadmill time is coming to an end, so the penultimate song has to be a good one. Almost every person I asked what they ran to quoted this song, and there seems to be nothing to put it to fault when you’re about to stop moving, and feel like you’re about to die.

I’m Not Alone – Calvin Harris

Almost finished! This song, although fairly new, is destined to become a popular treadmill tune. It builds in all the right places, and is just the right side of trashy trance. It even cools down in the last 10 seconds, giving you time to slow down and contemplate how easy your run has been made by this playlist.