Left Hand Ache |
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Left Hand Ache |
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Jul 13 2007, 11:50 AM |
You should probably take a small break when you notice pain like that.
Important is to get warm-up before playing or practicing. Otherwise you may hurt yourself pretty bad and be out of shape for some time. -------------------- Youtube
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Jul 13 2007, 03:31 PM |
Ok well i'm at work this weekend anyway so i guess i can go today with out guitar.... only just though
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Jul 13 2007, 04:03 PM |
I noticed, playing the scales, that my picking wrist is starting to hurt. Is this normal? Maybe its due to spending over an hour on practicing?
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Jul 13 2007, 04:24 PM |
I noticed, playing the scales, that my picking wrist is starting to hurt. Is this normal? Maybe its due to spending over an hour on practicing? Ok, I'm going to jump right in here ... I'm expecting the younger guys will start in with popsts saying they practice 93 hours a day and get no pain I suspect that its a lot easier when you are younger to practice and play for longer periods of time. I'm 40, and radically increasing the amount of playing I did about a year ago has given me some problems in this area. It pays to be careful here - an hour isn;t a lot of practice by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a lot if this is somehting you ahven;t done a lot of recently, and as we get older it gets harder to pick up new stuff, the body is less flexible etc. So, be careful, if you get pain taht isn;t just straight forward tiredness then rest or you could harm yourself! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Jul 13 2007, 07:07 PM |
My post is going to be slightly off track here but I just noticed how weak my hands were. I've been doing some blue collar labor here at home lately, carpenting, and my wrists and fingers have been aching ...not from striking my fingers with the hammer... well that too but anyway.
My work is like 8 hours by a laptop, or I rather extended it to 9 hours caus of this forum steals some time and this work doesn't really strengthen the muscles. But after my carpenting, digging holes, moving rocks around, pulling up stubs (no it's not a summer job, I'm too old for that, it's gardening and "vacation") for a period of time now, like a little every night for a months time, I can feel my hands getting bulked. Like I had to take off the wedding ring since it went from lose to being too tight. And after all this I have been thinking I couldn't be able to play with my hands and fingers becoming rough... On the contuary, I havn't practiced any of the lessons lately (no time) but I picked up the guitar to play some old stuff and boy... speed, accuracy and stamina has increased while doing no practice at all, just hard labor. So I'm definitly (after rebuilding is finished) set up my old gym and start lifting weights again. I found that hand and finger strength is one key. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Jul 25 2007, 04:07 AM |
If the problem persists I would sugest buying something like this: http://www.zillion.co.nz/listing/3676672/
When I was working on an orchard last year doing purning I had some major problems with my hands. My whole hand and wrist would ach and my fingers would feel tight and sore even all the way up my forearm got quite sore and tense. Eventually I decided I needed to do something about it because it was getting pretty bad and then I read about these gyroscopic balls and decided to buy one. They are pretty easy to use and the resistence is set entirely by you so you can have a really mellow workout with one or you can push it really fast (which is bloody hard, you will feel like arms gonna fall off after a couple of minutes). Im kinda rambling now and lost my train of thought but basically my point was that it is extremely helpful for recovering from hand injury and I also felt it gave me a great advantage having fairly strong hands before I started playing guitar. p.s. if you do buy one dont get put off if you struggle to use it properly at 1st because the technique can be difficult to get down and the coordination needed to use it with your left hand is pretty difficult also. -------------------- |
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Jul 25 2007, 04:23 AM |
That happend to me when i started playing live probably because i was nervious... just relax your hand.
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