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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2006-02-07 19:59
Anybody here lost a lot of weight and found that breath control got a lot easier?
I haven't lost a lot of weight (yet.....), but wondering.
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2006-02-07 20:12
I've discovered the reverse.
/miss running 5 days a week
//regular cardio exercise does wonders for breathing
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2006-02-07 20:21
For a while there I was running for up to 30 minutes a day.
To my surprise, my lungs were working quite well because of clarinet playing, and my body (feet, legs etc.) would get tired before I got to the stage where I felt like my respiratory system was actually working hard.
I now ride a bike and this has proven to be MUCH harder...!
Generally, exercise hasn't helped in a massive way with breathing; but it has helped with longer practice sessions and better sleep at night. As long as there are benefits from excercise, do it! (And there are plenty)
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-02-07 21:05
I've lost 25 lbs so far (I've kind of plateauted lately, need to start it up again. Especially if I ever want to audition for Navy Band!). I don't think I've noticed an increase in breath control though. None that I notice or recognize. How exactly would losing weight increase breath control?
I'm currently in Aerobics and Weight Training at school and I've noticed that I have more endurance now. I have choir right after PE and I've noticed that after running, my lungs really open up and allow for even more air.
I've always had an abundance of air to begin with, but I would also recommend voice lessons/breathing exercises for any instrumentalist, especially to help the breath control.
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Author: charlie_star_uk
Date: 2006-02-07 21:07
there seem to be a lot of large brass players around who have a huge sound and can play fantastically....
i am thinking of fattening up to improve!!! just joking but it doesn't seem that the top players are all slim!
then again, being slim will prob give you more energy and feel generally healthier.......
charlie
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-02-07 21:36
> Does a person's weight affect tone? Just curious...
Just think of it as an extra barrel at the other side of the mouthpiece... ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
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Ben
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2006-02-07 22:31
In my younger days the weight control/excercise thing was key to having a lower resting heart rate and greater capacity for ALL forms of physical stress (playing Weber included!), however, in my particular case it seems that lately I've developed more of a vascular issue from too many cheese steak sandwiches. A nascent vegetarian diet is beginning to show signs of accomplishing the overall improvement in health that was once only an "activity level" related state.
so..........EAT MORE SPINACH !!!!! and.........GO NAVY !!!!
............Paul Aviles
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2006-02-07 22:41
Thanks to Dr. Atkins I lost about 150 lbs....It had no effect on my playing other than I felt more at ease on stage
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Author: Bellflare
Date: 2006-02-07 22:52
I had 200 unsightly extra pounds and bellowed at the top of my lungs.
......then I got divorced Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-02-08 05:48
I can think of two people that have the best breath control from everyone I know and one is pretty fat, the other very fat.
I weight less than 60kg and my breath is ok. I can't run a lot because I have a medical problem called syncope  I try to walk a lot and it definitely helps. Not directly with breath control but it makes you healthier and play better imho.
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Author: crnichols
Date: 2006-02-08 06:16
Lots of health question posts. It's unhealthy to be fat. Period. Your body works more efficiently if you are within a certain height/weight ratio (albeit it's a little different for everyone based on your build). If you are at an efficient weight, you will breath better, it's not going to make a remarkable improvement on your playing unless your in the category of needing to lose like 200 pounds or something though (ie so fat that's it's difficult to breath)
Christopher Nichols
1st Infantry Division Band
Christopher Nichols, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
University of Delaware
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Author: BobD
Date: 2006-02-08 11:10
"It's unhealthy to be fat."
Well, the medical community currently believes it's unhealthy to be obese.....but "fat" hasn't been addressed. I'm not convinced that fat people are "unhealthy"...whatever that means. I've known several "fit" low level fat people who've died from strokes and heart attacks. There was a time when "skinny" was thought to be unhealthy.
Bob Draznik
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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2006-02-08 17:00
There was a time, during my lifetime anyway, when opera singers were encouraged to eat and become larger, which was thought to improve the voice in some way.
We need to remember that our current standards of "fat" and "overweight" vary a great deal from what was to be expected 50 or 100 years ago.
Sue Tansey
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-02-08 17:19
these standards even differ from country to country...
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Ben
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2006-02-08 17:34
Fat is evil, the only thing more wicked then fat is smoking. I stopped smoking and got fat, then had to diet. After loosing 75 pounds 5 years ago my blood pressure went from 140/90 to 125/75, my blood sugar from 7.9 to 5.4, cholesterol medication is no longer required and I can go 15 miles on the bike and not break at sweat at 95F. Too bad it didn't improve my hearing or eye sight. Like my doctor said, nobody died on a 1000 calories a day, I added 3 lite beer and still got rid of the fat in 6 months. Now I'm addicted to lite beer but get to eat 1500 calories a day. Wheeeeeeee
A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask.
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Author: donald
Date: 2006-02-08 17:58
shorthand- boy, i wish my tux (tailcoat) fitted like it used to, but it's the white bow tie that drives me mad.....
Mr Blumberg probably knows some very fine clarinet players (i am not naming anyone) who lost/gained considerable amounts of weight during their playing careers.... why doesn't he do a survey and see if they noticed any change?
Odly enough, i am the fittest i've ever been (well, just about) and yet about 15 kilos overweight- i don't think this extra layer affects my playing particuarly, but it sure doesn't look good. Hopefully by the time i play at clarinetfest in August i will have lost some of it (i'm a running/surfing vegetarian.... it MUST BE THE BEER)
keep playing the good tunes
donald
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2006-02-08 18:21
Beer, well a Coors lite is 100 calories and a Coors regular 160. That dark stuff you former members of the British Empire seem to love so much must be at least 300. So if your weight is stable and you guzzle three dark beer a day what will swtiching to crummy American lite beer get you? -600 calories a day. That means you will lose a pound every 6 days. By Clarinet Feast you will have lost about 30 pounds. So Donald, dump that British beer and you'll make it.
A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-02-08 18:30
> crummy American lite beer
In that case I'd save the whole 300 calories and drink water instead.
American beer is like making love in a boat...
While we're joking: Seen in a doctor's waiting room: "You could live on 10% of what you eat each day. On the remaining 90% your doctor lives."
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Ben
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Author: donald
Date: 2006-02-08 18:32
i wasn't going to make any smart comments about American beer... so i'm glad someone else did.... Schlitz anyone? i thought not....
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2006-02-08 18:38
Ben, By switching to water and giving up the lite beer you will not only lose 30 pounds in the next year but save at least $540.
A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2006-02-08 20:01
I had lost weight back a while ago, and what I noticed from it was that I couldn't sit as long in my practice chair without discomfort.
Lost some of that extra padding behind - and noticed it!
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Author: BobD
Date: 2006-02-08 21:00
Check out the just released multi-million government study of 49,000women.
Bob Draznik
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-02-08 21:06
BobD wrote:
> Check out the just released multi-million government study of
> 49,000women.
And what has that study to do with breath control?????
Specious comment.
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Author: RodRubber
Date: 2006-02-09 05:34
"There was a time when "skinny" was thought to be unhealthy."
There was also the bunkus
Best -
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