{"id":3588,"date":"2023-01-05T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T15:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:35:37","slug":"royalty-free-music-for-exercise-workout-and-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/royalty-free-music-for-exercise-workout-and-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Working out with Royalty-Free Music for exercise and fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stock music and royalty free music is a great way for filmmakers and social media creators to cost-effectively and easily find music that they can use in their videos, games and more. And one of the media types that can benefit the most from using stock music is the ever-growing and ever more area of popular workout-, exercise, training, fitness and health.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s quite obvious that pretty much any type of media that has to do with physical training and fitness will not just benefit from, but absolutely need<\/em>,\u00a0a musical soundtrack. Can you imagine an aerobics class or a high-intensity workout video without any music? That would be pretty bland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So whether you’re working with static and fixed content such as YouTube exercise videos and classes, or something more interactive and flexible like a workout app with customized exercise programs, then finding and licensing royalty-free music to download is definitely going to be part of your content development.<\/p>\n

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But where to start?<\/h2>\n

I think you need to start by determining whether you want the music to\u00a0pump up the energy level<\/strong><\/a>, or to provide some more pleasant background music<\/strong><\/a>, perhaps behind spoken instructions from a trainer or guide. Or, if your content aims to bliss out and relax the participants (such as for yin yoga, restorative yoga or maybe Pilates), then you want to use\u00a0relaxing and soothing<\/strong><\/a> music to still the mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These days, with royalty-free music libraries often containing tens or hundreds of thousands of music tracks to choose from, it’s going to come down to how and where you can actually find what you need<\/em> without having to wade through tons of mediocre stuff and unsuitable music. Here at Shockwave-Sound.com<\/a>, every track we take in is actually\u00a0curated<\/em> and picked out by staff. We do not allow “self uploading” by musicians who just signed up to become a content provider — nor do we take in huge libraries of aging, pre-existing libraries. Every track at Shockwave-Sound has been listened to, considered, maybe discussed back and forth a couple of times with the artist, to polish it and change it a bit – and then finally the track is approved and then installed in our library. Due to this more traditional way of working with artists and new music, we feel pretty confident that our stock music library is of consistently high quality compared with other providers.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at some of our specific offerings related to music for fitness and workout content.<\/p>\n

Music for high-intensity workouts:<\/h2>\n