About PodrunnerPodrunner is a free, bi-weekly series of workout-music mixes created and produced by DJ and writer Steve Boyett. Mixes can be streamed or downloaded from the Podrunner website, as well as on iTunes, Apple Music, iHeartRadio, and most podcast apps.
Most Podrunner mixes are hour-long, fixed-tempo workouts from 100 to 185 Beats Per Minute (BPM), encompassing walkers, joggers, runners, spinning, elliptical, aerobics, or anyone who can benefit from a tempo-based workout. There are no instructions, ads, or interruptions. Because of Podrunner's open-ended nature, listeners have used it for everything from mail-carrying to making clay pots.
Podrunner also offers multi-week training programs for 5K, 8K, 10K, and more, and showcases innovative varied-tempo workout mixes based on modern training methods, such as Tabata, High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), Fartleks (sprints), Ramp, Staircase, and more.
Studies have shown that training to music improves endurance and makes workouts more efficient. Podrunner builds on this research to make music a partner to your workout, rather than a distraction from it. Electronic dance music is ideal for workouts because of its solid, steady beat, and because it's groove-oriented rather than melody-oriented. For more about this idea, see Steve's post Why We Move to Grooves.
Podrunner is always commercial-free, and relies entirely on listener contributions and merchandise sales to remain available.
History
Podrunner debuted on iTunes in February 2006, and was an immediate hit, rocketing to #1 and remaining in the Top 100 in its category for over a decade. The series earned iTunes’ People’s Choice Award for Best New Podcast, won Best Podcast awards in 2007 through 2010, and earned rave reviews from Running Times, Runner's World, Self, Men’s Fitness, Women's Health, Now, Prevention, and many more magazines, newspapers, and websites. The first series of its kind, Podrunner has been a workout partner for millions of listeners, and remains one of the world's most popular podcasts.
About Steve BoyettWriter and DJ Steven R Boyett's first novel, Ariel, was written when he was 19, and is widely regarded as a cult classic. Other novels include Elegy Beach, Mortality Bridge, and Fata Morgana. Boyett has also published short stories, comic books, and essays. In 1995 he wrote the second draft of Toy Story 2 for Pixar.
He has DJ'd at clubs and conventions in major cities and at Burning Man. In 2006 he created the popular podcasts Podrunner and Groovelectric (dance music mixes).
Steve also has been a professional martial-arts instructor, writing teacher, advertising copywriter, proofreader, website editor, chapbook publisher, paper marbler, and electronic dance music composer. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.