ABOUT THE JOGTUNES GROUP

Bob Marcus, the founder, designer, and owner of The JogTunes Group, is a retired physician from New York City who now lives in Utah. As a casual runner who enjoys running to music, he realized that it's more fun and motivating to run to songs with tempos that exactly match his running pace. The problem was finding songs that matched his cadence. He learned that the only way to determine the beats-per-minute of songs in his jazz collection is to calculate them himself, "by hand", using a BPM calculator program. Automated BPM calculators are not reliable enough, especially when there is no strong bass beat in a song.

He then realized that other runners may also enjoy what he calls music-paced running. Being somewhat of a computer geek, Bob decided to launch jogtunes.com. It wasn't long before the site's visitor numbers increased rapidly and the access was world wide. It became clear the concept of BPM running was gaining in popularity.

A podcast was a logical next step in bringing runnable music to the masses. For this reason and also to promote independent artists, Dr. Bob started the JogTunesIndie Podcast. And, like jogtunes.com, the show quickly gained in popularity in the US and internationally.

It soon became apparent that the tunes and playlists on jogtunes.com readily lend themselves to other forms of exercise. Bob received emails encouraging him to add other activities so Bob began encouraging people to try walking, aquarunning, indoor cycling, stairmaster, elliptical, and even swimming to the tunes on our list and his podcast. music-paced exercise activities. He also started another new website called BikeToTheBeat.com which is now incorporated into jogtunes.com.

More recently, the JogTunes Group was formed to include jogtunes.com, biketothebeat.com, the JogTunes Indie Podcast, and it's website, jogtunesindie.com. We love indie music so much that we felt it would be more appropriate and effective to put the signed and indie music together on one site. The other domain names remain out there but you can now find it all at jogtunes.com.

Well that's the story. We hope you find music-paced exercise as enjoyable, exhilarating, and motivating as we all do in the JogTunes Group. Please feel free to offer suggestions, comments, and new signed and indie songs for us to add to our master lists and playlists and to the podcast.
You can send them by email to comments at jogtunes.com.