| From: "Lloyd W. Hanson" Subject: Re: Weight Lifting and the Voice To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Hello Michael.Chesebro and List:
Thank you for your response to my request for information about weight lifting and the change in vocal quality that can result from this activity. Your explanation makes good sense to me, especially your mention of the hyper activity of the thryroarytenoids and the tendency that continued and repetitious use of these muscles can, as you put it, "soon generalize into the speaking posture."
I am not suggesting to any of the members of this list that weight training is to be avoided, only that it be done with some knowledge of possible difficulties that it may cause for the singer. I have always been told that one should blow on the lift using the facial lips as a valve to build some abdominal pressure as a support for the back but not to "hold the breath" which involves the vocal folds. Is this the procedure that you use?
I appreciate your comments.
Regards -- Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA Professor of Voice, Vocal Pedagogy School of Performing Arts Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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