Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Track List - #totalrequestride, Wednesday, April 30, 2014

1. Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
2. Call Me A Spaceman (remix) - Hardwell
3. Shooting Star (remix) - David Rush featuring LMFAO, Pitbull & Kevin Rudolf
4. Roar (remix) - Katy Perry
5. Born This Way (remix) - Lady Gaga
6. Fancy - Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX
7. ABC (remix) - Jackson 5
8. Talk Dirty - Jason Derulo featuring 2 Chainz
9. Make It Bun Dem (remix) - Skrillex & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
10. Numb Selfie (mashup) - DJ Mit featuring Linkin Park & The Chainsmokers
11. Feels Like A Prayer (remix mashup) - Meck featuring Dino and Madonna
12. True Love - P!nk featuring Lily Rose Cooper
13. Talk Show Host - Radiohead
14. Magic - Coldplay

The #totalrequestride is just that. A Ride made up of requests from CRUNCH members across the country. Submit your requests. Hear and Ride to your favorite songs in class. Win an iTunes gift card! Thanks to the amazing Riders who created an incredible energy in class this morning! An intense Ride. A fun workout! You request it. You Ride to it. Time flies by! You get so much out of it! Thanks for being a part of it! I am humbled, inspired, challenged and motivated by it and you!

Friday, April 25, 2014

Subs for the Ride with Tommy! This Weekend, April 26-28, 2014

I will be out of town for a couple of days and the following will be covering my classes for me:

Saturday, April 26th, 9:45am - Guy B.
Monday, April 28th, 9:30am - Beth P.
(this will be a regular Ride, NOT a Red Line Ride!)

Thanks to the amazing instructors for helping me out and to all of you for your support of the Ride with Tommy!

Have a great weekend!

In good health,

tommy

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Track List - Sexy Spin, Thursday, April 24, 2014

1. 3am - Kleerup featuring Marit Bergman
2. Gimme Some More - Busta Rhymes
3. Fancy - Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX
4. Lose Yourself - Eminem
5. Blow (remix) - Beyoncé
6. Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You - Lauryn Hill
7. Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn
8. Hell Yes - Beck
9. Just A Friend - Biz Markie
10. Roses - Outkast
11. Born This Way (remix) - Lady Gaga
12. Adore You - Miley Cyrus
13. Who You Are - Jessie J
14. Uprising Of Love - Melissa Etheridge

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Track List - #totalrequestride, Wednesday, April 23, 2014

1. 3am - Kleerup featuring Marit Bergman
2. Gimme Some More - Busta Rhymes
3. Fancy - Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX
4. Lose Yourself - Eminem
5. Born This Way (remix) - Lady Gaga
6. Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You - Lauryn Hill
7. Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn
8. Hell Yes - Beck
9. Just A Friend - Biz Markie
10. Roses - Outkast
11. Blow (remix) - Beyoncé
12. Adore You - Miley Cyrus
13. Who You Are - Jessie J
14. Uprising Of Love - Melissa Etheridge

Did your request make it in the final track list of this week's #totalrequestride? Did you win a $15 iTunes gift card? No? Then be sure to take part in this incredibly fun and innovative class now offered at Crunch gyms across the country next week! Tweet your request to @crunchgym. Be sure to include the hashtag #totalrequestride. A top 10 will be compiled by Crunch each week and then distributed to instructors throughout the Crunch world. It's a great way to be interactive. It's a great way to have fun while commiting to your intense workouts and goals. Do it! Request it! Ride to it!

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Track List - Saturday, April 19, 2014

1. United State Of Pop 2013 (Living The Fantasy) - DJ Earworm + 25 artists
2. Pompeii (remix) - Bastille
3. Ghosts N Stuff - Deadmau5
4. Blow (remix) - Beyoncé
5. Do What U Want - Lady Gaga featuring Christina Aguilera
6. Can't Hold Us (mashup) - DJ MixmstrStel featuring Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Queen, Paramore, Devo, Beyoncé, etc.
7. Rude Boy (remix) - Rihanna featuring Cassidy & Jag
8. Million Dollar Bill (remix) - Whitney Houston
9. Timber - Pitbull featuring Ke$ha
10. All Of Me - John Legend
11. Uprising Of Love - Melissa Etheridge
12. Do You Want To Build A Snowman - Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn & Katie Lopez (Disney's Frozen Soundtrack)

This morning's Ride was awesome and amazing! The energy was infectious and inspiring. You all were focused and fun! Thanks to everyone for being there. And I hope everyone has a great weekend. Happy Easter! Happy Passover! It is a week and weekend to celebrate new life, new beginnings, new commitments to things such as health, fitness and well-being. Celebrate all that you have that is great in your life right now! Commit to things that can improve your current and length of life. Make your workouts new. And fresh. Make a change for the better. Make a positive difference. Ride with Tommy! In good health!

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Track List - Sexy Spin, Thursday, April 17, 2014

1. G.U.Y. - Lady Gaga
2. XO (remix) - Beyoncé
3. Wild Wild Love - Pitbull featuring G.R.L.
4. Invincible (remix) - Pat Benatar
5. Stronger (remix) - Kelly Clarkson
6. Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
7. Hell Yes - Beck
8. Dirty Bass - Far East Movement featuring Tyga
9. Blow (remix) - Beyoncé
10. Selfie - The Chainsmokers
11. The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice
12. Breathe Me - Sia
13. Two Worlds Collide - Inspiral Carpets

Music is such a vital part of an indoor cycling class. I try to play a variety of genres without going to far from the mainstream. My goal is for everyone to know (and hopefully like) at least one song in every class! I carefully choose each song for a particular activity in class. I make my decisions based on the beat while hoping to find songs that have a motivational build or sound. And the music is so very important to the energy and the fun that can make a class rise above so many ordinary classes and make it extraordinary! That is my goal. To provide an extraordinary class every time. So I spend so much time on preparing the music, but while in class, I also spend a lot of time on the other aspects of class that I feel are also so important. Form, commitment, energy, focus: these are four things that can also help each rider take their workouts to the next level. Go above and beyond the ordinary. Be extraordinary! Ride with Tommy! Thanks to each and every one of you for being a part of the Ride with Tommy! You all help make it what it is. So, thank you again. I hope to see you next time. In good health!

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Track List - #totalrequestride, Wednesday, April 16, 2014

1. G.U.Y. - Lady Gaga
2. XO (remix) - Beyoncé
3. Wild Wild Love - Pitbull featuring G.R.L.
4. Invincible (remix) - Pat Benatar
5. Stronger (remix) - Kelly Clarkson
6. Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
7. Hell Yes - Beck
8. Dirty Bass - Far East Movement featuring Tyga
9. Blow (remix) - Beyoncé
10. Selfie - The Chainsmokers
11. The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice
12. Breathe Me - Sia
13. Two Worlds Collide - Inspiral Carpets

Make a change. Make a difference. Make it a point to get as much out of class as you can. Make a commitment to push yourself, challenge yourself, and focus so much that you move yourself closer to realizing your goals. And have some fun while you're at it! Tweet your requests to @crunchgym followed by #totalrequestride. You could be riding to your own favorites music! You could also win an iTunes gift card! Request it. Ride to it. Do it! The new Total Request Ride. Every Wednesday at 9:30am at Crunch Fitness - Sunset. This morning's class rocked it out! Were you there? Will you miss out on the opportunity to do so much while having so much fun? I hope not! I hope to see you there!

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Track List - Saturday, April 12, 2014

1. Say Something (remix) - A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera
2. Partition (remix) - Beyonce'
3. Roar (remix) - Katy Perry
4. Work - Britney Spears
5. Alive (remix) - Empire Of The Sun featuring Zedd
6. Gangster Trippin' - Fatboy Slim
7. Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
8. Black Skinhead - Kanye West
9. Animals - Martin Garrix
10. Sexy And I Know It (remix) - LMFAO
11. We Found Love - Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
12. Invisible - Hunter Hayes
13. We Found Love (Rihanna cover) - Sam Tsui
14. Demons (Imagine Dragons cover) - Max Schneider, Sam Tsui & Kurt Schneider

Group fitness classes produce an energy that helps propel you forward. By committing to the form, pace, resistance and movements in an indoor cycling class, you are helping create that energy. And we all need that energy. The music helps. The instructor helps. But the energy that is created when so many people gather in a room to do the same thing (at whatever level they are...it doesn't matter...but the commitment does matter!), can help move each of us closer to obtaining our goals. Whatever those goals may be. And we all have different goals. They may appear alike in general, but each of us is different. Our bodies are different. What we expect to get out of a Ride is different. So with so many differences, you wouldn't think that so much can be accomplished by working together. Well that is exactly what happens! So I ask each of you to commit at the beginning of class. Commit to making a difference. Commit to making a positive change. How much you commit is up to you. What you accomplish is definitely individual. But together, by creating that positive energy, we can all do so much more! So thanks to everyone for being a part of the Ride with Tommy! this morning! Thanks to each of you for creating such amazing energy! Thanks for making such amazing change! See you next time! In good health!

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Track List - Sexy Spin, Thursday, April 10, 2014

1. Happy (remix) - Pharrell Williams
2. Sing - Ed Sheeran ft. Pharrell Williams
3. G.U.Y. (remix) - Lady Gaga
4. How Will I Know (remix) - Whitney Houston
5. Jealous (I Ain't With It)(remix) - Chromeo
6. Lost In The World - Kanye West featuring Bon Iver
7. Dark Horse - Katy Perry
8. Vivrant Thing - Q-Tip
9. Gonna Fly Now (remix) - Bill Conti remixed by Al-Deen Da Bl@ck Child featuring A.O. Lyrical
10. Roar (remix) - Katy Perry
11. I Drive Your Truck - Lee Brice
12. Piano Man - Billy Joel

This morning, I was able to connect a little more than usual to almost everyone in the room. I figure, I ask for your commitment, your focus and your determination to do the workout I have created for you, then I should at least reach out and make that connection to let you know that I do indeed share your desire for an intense, form-focused, efficient ride that will definitely make a positive change. I WANT that change for you. I WANT you to make a difference. I try the best I can to motivate you to WANT to commit, to WANT to make a change, to WANT to make that positive difference in your life, your physical fitness, and in your mental and physical health and well-being. And I WANT you to do all this while having at LEAST a little bit of fun. You help me do this. We are in this together. Let's all come out of the other side better for it. Every time. We can. Thanks! In good health!

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Track List - #totalrequestride, Wednesday, April 9, 2014

1. Happy (remix) - Pharrell Williams
2. Sing - Ed Sheeran ft. Pharrell Williams
3. G.U.Y. (remix) - Lady Gaga
4. How Will I Know (remix) - Whitney Houston
5. Jealous (I Ain't With It)(remix) - Chromeo
6. Lost In The World - Kanye West featuring Bon Iver
7. Dark Horse - Katy Perry
8. Vivrant Thing - Q-Tip
9. Gonna Fly Now (remix) - Bill Conti remixed by Al-Deen Da Bl@ck Child featuring A.O. Lyrical
10. Roar (remix) - Katy Perry
11. I Drive Your Truck - Lee Brice
12. Piano Man - Billy Joel

The final track list for this morning's #totalrequestride. So much fun! So much energy! So many riders wanting to make a difference in their lives. So many riders actually making a positive change in their lives! It only happens when you commit. So thanks to all of you for commiting to the form, the pace, the resistance, the movement and to the determination it takes to make that change. I am so proud of, impressed by and motivated by you all!

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Track List - Saturday, April 5, 2014

1. Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys
2. Deep Treasure (mashup) - DJ MixmstrStel featuring Bruno Mars, Lit & Sum 41
3. Your Love - Morgan Page featuring The Outfield
4. Clocks - Coldplay
5. Rock And Roll - Led Zeppelin
6. Dirty Deeds Will Rock You (mashup) - DJ Aggro1 featuring AC/DC & Queen
7. Animals - Martin Garrix
8. Never Say Goodbye - Hardwell & Dyro featuring Bright Lights
9. Wake Me Up (remix) - Avicii
10. Goodbye To You - Scandal
11. A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
12. Mozart Meets Kelly Clarkson(Since U Been Gone) - Well-Strung
13. As If We Never Said Goodbye - Chris Colfer

And we rocked it out this morning! Thanks to everyone who filled up the room with energy, focus, excitement, commitment, dedication, and determination! What each of you accomplished individually was amazing. What we all achieved together was inspiring! Thanks for that! Thanks for being there and being so great! Let's do it all again on next time!

Friday, April 04, 2014

Track List - Friday, April 4, 2014

1. Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys
2. Deep Treasure (mashup) - DJ MixmstrStel featuring Bruno Mars, Lit & Sum 41
3. Your Love - Morgan Page featuring The Outfield
4. Clocks - Coldplay
5. Rock And Roll - Led Zeppelin
6. Dirty Deeds Will Rock You (mashup) - DJ Aggro1 featuring AC/DC & Queen
7. Animals - Martin Garrix
8. Never Say Goodbye - Hardwell & Dyro featuring Bright Lights
9. Wake Me Up (remix) - Avicii
10. Goodbye To You - Scandal
11. A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
12. Mozart Meets Kelly Clarkson(Since U Been Gone) - Well-Strung
13. As If We Never Said Goodbye - Chris Colfer

This morning's Red Line Ride was somewhat of a special class. It wasn't a birthday spin, but I did ask for a few requests of favorite songs from Lisi, who will be moving to New York and getting married! This is a bittersweet occasion as this was her last Ride with Tommy! at Crunch Fitness - Sunset, However, Lisi will be beginning a new and exciting chapter in her life, and we wish her the absolute best! Thanks to everyone for being there and again demonstrating what we all can do when we focus, commit, push and challenge ourselves while part of a group! That's what group fitness is all about. That is what the Ride with Tommy! is all about!

Thursday, April 03, 2014

Track List - Sexy Spin, Thursday, April 3, 2014

1. G.U.Y. - Lady Gaga
2. I Luh Ya Papi - Jennifer Lopez featuring Big Sean
3. Vivrant Thing - Q-Tip
4. #Selfie - Chainsmokers
5. Gay Selfie - Chainsmokers (DJs Figares & Blacklow featuring Eric Tesmer)
6. Time After Time (remix) - Cyndi Lauper
7. Shot Me Down - David Guetta featuring Skylar Grey
8. Higher - Just Blaze and Baauer featuring Jay-Z
9. Turn Down For What - DJ Snake & Lil Jon
10. Youth (remix) - Foxes
11. Let It Go (remix) - Idina Menzel (Frozen Soundtrack)
12. Mozart Meets Kelly Clarkson('s Since U Been Gone) - Well-Strung
132. Could It Be Magic/Kiss From A Rose (instrumental) - Richard Knight, Jr.

Intensity, fun, excitement, sweat, burned calories, no shirts...just what Sexy Spin is all about! Thanks to everyone for being a part of it this morning. And thanks to deejays Blacklow and Figares and their very special guest vocalist Eric Tesmer for their very fun version of #Selfie! Life is fun! Sexy Spin is just a part of it. Do your part! Thanks! In good health!

Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Track List - #totalrequestride, Wednesday, April 2, 2014

1. G.U.Y. - Lady Gaga
2. I Luh Ya Papi - Jennifer Lopez featuring Big Sean
3. Vivrant Thing - Q-Tip
4. #Selfie - Chainsmokers
5. Gay Selfie - Chainsmokers (DJs Figares & Blacklow featuring Eric Tesmer)
6. Time After Time (remix) - Cyndi Lauper
7. Shot Me Down - David Guetta featuring Skylar Grey
8. Higher - Just Blaze and Baauer featuring Jay-Z
9. Turn Down For What - DJ Snake & Lil Jon
10. Youth (remix) - Foxes
11. Let It Go (remix) - Idina Menzel (Frozen Soundtrack)
12. Mozart Meets Kelly Clarkson('s Since U Been Gone) - Well-Strung
13. Could It Be Magic/Kiss From A Rose (instrumental) - Richard Knight, Jr.

So much fun! And such a fun and interesting collection of music. Just the way I like it! Challenge me. I'll do my best to challenge you in return. And let's have lots of fun while we do it! And congrats to Kate Romero! Kate is the lucky winner of an iTunes giftcard for tweeting her request to @crunchgym followed by #totalrequestride. Congrats and thanks for being a part of the Total Request Ride and the Ride with Tommy!