How should a musician maintain their body? It seems like it should be a fairly straight forward question, but it turns out that it's tricky. I've been mulling this over for a while and, …
The Rules of Exercise
Several years ago, I came across a list of 3 simple rules for exercise that I think are incredibly wise in their simplicity, but that I see violated, to the great detriment of the exerciser, on a …
The Musician’s Maintenance Warm Up
The site of your symptoms vs the cause of the problem
It’s easy to think that the place in your body where you feel pain is the cause of the problem, but often times it’s not. Imagine this. There are two guys whose job it is to dig a ditch. One of …
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The 4 most common times that musicians will start to hurt
Musical performance related pain isn't like rolling your ankle. If you roll your ankle, you know what happened and you have a pretty good sense of what the recovery will look like. Pain related to …
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