Run Harder to These Military Call and Response Cadence Tracks
Early morning runs can be tough, but getting through it takes a little teamwork, camaraderie, and joyful singing of death. Luckily, military run cadences are available on all of your favorite streaming services.
Cadenzas are invocation and response chants that, when running, correspond to approximately 180 strides per minute. (There is also a marching cadence at a rate of about 110 beats per minute, but it’s not what we need here.) Complete the search Spotify, iTunes or your preferred music source for a series of albums «Run to Cadence» or «Workout to». Running cadences . “ Cadenzas sound like this:
The cadenzas are pumping songs for day-to-day workouts – “teamwork for mutual suffering” as one runner describes them , not meant to be raced or timed. It’s a good rhythm, and singing out loud helps make sure you’re not out of breath. I did a morning run with the Army Airborne , Marines and SEALs the other day, and my only complaint is that the tracks were too short – a minute or two each. But there are a lot of them on every album, so you can’t go anywhere.
There is also an aspect of love or hate in contemplating war and death first thing in the morning. There are endless variations on the theme “If I die in a war zone, pack me and send me home”, and this theme fits perfectly with the suffering of daily exercise and military life. The SEALs sing: “Devil, devil, you are not afraid because we live in hell here.” The Marines chant “Pain! / Where are you? “And then find the pain (” In the hip! “” In the chest! “) And tell her to leave.
Tracks are usually named after the first or two lines you hear, but the content of each track usually comes as a surprise. This is because cadenzas are usually not individual songs, but rather are collected on the fly by whoever calls them that day. There are many phrases left, right, left and one, two, three, four, hey. Mixed stories about how the Chief can beat Superman, or covers of real songs (like Gordon Lightfoot ‘s Early Morning Rain , and I swear I heard a bit of Joan Jett on one of the army tracks).
Some tracks are entertaining and some are motivating. Try adding this to your workout playlist and see if your run ends with a smile:
Finish line (finish line) / Soon (soon)
Finish line / Hey you (hey you)
We did it! (We did it!) / Standing up (Standing up)
Superhigh (superhigh) / Initiate (devotee)
Motivated (motivated) / In the air! (In the air!)
Let’s go (let’s go) / Take it home (take it home)
All (all) / Take it home (Take it home)