It's the singer's plight. How to hold on to the notes and phrase the lines smoothly with perfect support / breath control while doing a bouncy choreography. But that's why you got SingersFit! 🙂 There are no shortcuts here. The key is a strong core/abdominal wall and lots of practice of breathing / support exercises.… Continue reading How to move & sing on stage without having a shaky voice
Category: General
Welcome to SingersFit! 🙂 Here you will find tips and articles about all things singing/fitness related, because let me tell you – in case you didn’t know – that singing is very much linked to being fit. Singers are Athletes in their whole right! Breathing, posture, and the engagement of the muscles for support are the basic primary fuel that allows that voice to come out. So as a passionate singer/fitness instructor/music teacher myself, and with years of having this idea in mind – including wondering, investigating, guessing, trial-error tests, and a lot of intuition -, I’ve finally put it all together hoping I can be of help to you, who are looking to develop/improve your body awareness from the physical to the ethereal and beyond 😛 (ahhh… us, the dreamers!)
Singing & Chakras
Before I became 'enlightened' about the interconnectedness of all things, I always thought that all that chakra stuff was some sort of 'new age' thing, that yes, it could be possible that it existed, but I thought it had nothing to do with the way we govern our emotions/soul/movement/thoughts. Little did I know that, while… Continue reading Singing & Chakras
Singing & Lower Back Pain
In the last few months I've been experiencing some intense outbreaks of lower back pain. The truth is that I've been overdoing it, overloading with weight training on my barbell squats, not stretching my hamstrings enough (one day we'll talk about how tight hamstrings compromise the posture of your squat), and as a result my… Continue reading Singing & Lower Back Pain
Singing and Hormones
I was just talking to my drummer friend Roberto after finishing one of our weekly gigs at Sarastro in Covent Garden, about the sheer happiness and incomparable high we feel while performing. And it's true, there's absolutely nothing in this world that can compare to the adrenaline rush, the feeling of completion and everlasting power,… Continue reading Singing and Hormones
Singers: The Emotional Factor
There are people who learn how to sing (i.e. they learn the technique) but aren't singers. And then there are people who don't know the technique of singing but are great singers. Am I saying that a singer is born? hmm... YES! 😀 - blunt me! (even if sometimes they don't know it… Continue reading Singers: The Emotional Factor
Singers: The Cardio Factor
The random days that I feel in 'low singing form' because I haven't had the time to warm up my voice, I so often find myself starting the gig with a few glitches and unwanted (involuntary, uncontrollable) sounds that disappear gradually as my core muscles warm up during the gig. This means that 15-20 minutes… Continue reading Singers: The Cardio Factor
The Six-Pack Abs Singer
If you are a singer of worth, you will know about the popular belief that singers - specially classical singers - cannot develop a six-pack figure, because the hardening and tensioning of the abdominal muscles will impede the flexibility to breath deep and therefore sustain the notes steadily for a long time. Also stiffness in… Continue reading The Six-Pack Abs Singer
