Becca wrote:I went swimming today. That's part of my lung capacity increasing plan.
But I used to be a competitive swimmer, and I remember being somewhat aware of the lung capacity thing even then, though it didn't bother me as much because I wasn't really trying to sing. I can still hold my breath a pretty long time I guess, but I can't play a damn flute! I tried again today and I played 2 notes and was completely out of air. I don't understand how people play the flute. I think maybe I am so used to the ridiculous amount of resistance of the oboe that maybe I'm just expelling all my air too quickly? I have no idea. I'll ask my oboe teacher or something.
I talked to my singing coach about it and she theorized similarly, but then I also wondered if I can't take in enough air and she explained how you shouldn't feel like your shoulders are raising up or whatever (this is hard to explain without the visual) but that your rib cage is sort of expanding in the back? And so when I tried to breathe deeply with that in mind I got this redonkulous muscle spasm in my like...lat muscle? My teacher was like "ok, then you need to stretch."
It's like my muscles are so tense they don't want to let my lungs expand! I'm sure anxiety plays a role in that somewhere...
I dunno. Maybe I have just gotten used to breathing really shallowly my whole life and my body has learned to cope with it somehow. I wonder if it has something to do with my pulse seeming too fast. My resting heartrate has always seemed on the fast side to me, even when I did sports and exercised all the time and was in great shape. But that could also be anxiety-related. haha
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