As you may know, I am a proud member of the 129th Army National Guard Band. What this means is that I am in the Army, but it’s a part time job for me. I “drill” with my unit one weekend every month and for two weeks in the summer. Right now is that two-week time period, called Annual Training, …
Trip to Nicholls
See? Foam rolling can be fun These students were such great sports. We had a lot of fun learning and trying together. As I stated in an earlier blog post, I got invited to Nicholls University to do a presentation on Workouts for Musicians. We went through some basic anatomy and physiology and then we all did some dynamic integration …
Audition Travel Lessons Learned
As you know, when it comes to taking auditions, only take the ones you really want or that are close by because they can be expensive. How expensive? Well, let me tell you… This past Wednesday I flew up to Boston for a second round audition with the Air Force Band of Liberty. It was a challenge from the start. …
Practice Room Warmups?
As musicians (whether you be a flutist or not), we tend to be rather meticulous about our instruments and how we approach our practice time: warming up the smaller muscles of our embochures, warming up our fingers with scales, even warming up our ears with long tones or our minds with imagery and planning the session out. But how much …
Going to the Florida Flute Fair
This coming weekend I’m super excited to be giving my first convention presentation at the Florida Flute Fair. Saturday morning, 9 AM at the Altamonte Springs Hilton, I will be giving the presentation “From the Weight Room to the Practice Room: Workouts to Prevent Pain”. I’m going to be addressing the various muscular imbalances that flutists tend to acquire, and …
Need something to kick your own butt in 10 minutes?
Cardio can be really boring. I mean, really, who wants to spend the better part of an hour on a machine staring at a screen? Even if you’re on a bike outside, or walking or running, if the scenery isn’t great, it’s easy to get bored. And if you’re like me and you like to try new things, well, meet …
From Nancy Georges – The Attitude of Excellence
I got this in my email box from IFBB Pro Nancy Georges and thought it was wonderful enough to share. Whether your goal is fitness or musical excellence or anything else, this applies. THE ATTITUDE OF EXCELLENCE What does it mean to be excellent? How do you define it? For me, how I define excellence, is when I am personally …
Foam Rolling
Foam what? I’m sure most of you have no idea what I’m talking about, but everyone should. Ever had a massage? I mean a good, deep tissue massage? It hurts like mad while it’s being done, you’ll find tight and knotted muscles you didn’t know you had, but when you are done, don’t you feel so much better? Possibly a …
Welcome to my blog – music, flute, fitness, and anything else that crosses my mind!
I finally have a blog and I’m excited for you to share in it with me! Welcome to my reality. Between working as a personal trainer, a health enthusiast at Vitamin Shoppe, cooking, practicing and working on my website, articles, recitals and presentations, I workout and spend time with my husband, that’s about all the time that’s left! I have …