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When a professional athlete gets ready to practice or perform his or her Sport.The first
thing that they do is warm up there and stretch their muscles. Why because if you tare one there can be long lasting maybe prematurelydamage. I've noticed that when a guitar player warms
up they usually pick up the guitar and start with a scale or arpeggio. WHY? Does that make sense? If you where a running back would you warm up by running through a goal line safety blitz without stretching or making
sure that your muscles are ready? Here are a few simple exercises that you should do before you pick up the guitar. Remember that guitar players and musicians can a DO get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. If you get
Carpal Tunnel it is hard maybe impossible to play. |
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Hand Exercises Pre-Guitar |
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Wrist Rotation: |
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Make a fist and rotate your entire hand (from the wrist) in one direction. Repeat 15 times.
Switch directions and repeat 15 times. Then, release your hands, and with fingers extended, do the same rotations. |
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Hand Stretch: |
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Make a fist, then extend your fingers as far apart as possible. Hold for 10 seconds. Relax. Repeat the
entire sequence 5-10 times until hands and fingers feel relaxed. |
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Exercise 1: |
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Sit at a table, resting your entire forearm flat on the table. Place you other hand about 1 inch above the wrist of your arm on the table table to keep the wrist
still during the exercise. Slowly move your hand left and right from the wrist in a wiping motion while keeping your forearm still. Repeat 10 times. |
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Exercise 3: |
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Make a circle with your fingers by moving the tip of your index finger to touch the tip of your thumb. This should form an "O" shape. Next, move the
tip of your middle finger to the tip of your thumb, then the tip of your ring finger to the tip of your thumb; finally, the tip of your little finger to the tip of your thumb. Fully open and
stretch the fingers before forming the "O" with the next finger. Try to hold your thumb as still as possible while doing this exercise. Repeat 10 times. |
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Exercise 2: |
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Sit at a table, resting your entire forearm flat on the table. Place you other hand about 1 inch above the wrist of your arm on
the table table to keep the wrist still during the exercise.Slowly hang your hand over the edge of the table so that your fingers point straight downward. Next, slowly bring your hand up until
your fingers point upward. Repeat 10 times. |
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Exercise 4: |
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Begin to bend your fingers at the joint closest to your fingertips. Next, bend the middle joint of your fingers, until your fingertips are touching your palm
(or as close to your palm as possible). When your fingers are bent, move your thumb so that it touches your middle finger. To straighten your fingers, do the movement in reverse, stretch the
fingers apart for a count of 5 between each flexion. This exercise should be done slowly and gently. Repeat 10 times. |
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I was looking in a guitar Catalog and I noticed that they where selling, Hand exercisers I thought, "well some one is looking to get rich" because that all it is. If you want a
state of the art hand exerciser I know of one that has been around for years. It's called a (drum roll) a RUBBER BAND! Try this, take a rubber band and wrap it around the tips of your fingers now turn you hand so you
can see you palm now stretch your fingers outward. I suggest using a smaller rubber band that will give you good tension. Well it's not $20 - $40 bucks but for the price can you complain? Besides it's easier |
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This is a simple Arpeggio "Like" warm-up. Try and roll your finders.Make sure you use the "Fingering outline."
(Hand chart) |
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