27/12/2025
If you have to think about your posture, alignment, breathing, or a specific muscle while you’re performing - you’re focusing on the wrong output.
The goal of recovery, movement, and fitness work depends on context, but to me, aside from improving overall health and wellbeing, should be to improve and positively impact our playing.
With that said, it can be SO easy to go down this rabbit hole of health and hyper fixate on specific outcomes as we play
This can be helpful, but long term - you’re going to hold yourself back.
Eventually, your mechanics will fall apart the moment you shift attention to the music.
Ideally, we should focus on the music and connecting to our audience.
This involves trust in your training, process, and yourself. When these elements are aligned, your training and practice:
✔️ hold up under stress
✔️ stay reliable when focus shifts
✔️ disappear into the background when it matters most
You shouldn’t be “doing anatomy” on stage, You should be doing the thing - performing and connecting to your audience!
Recovery, movement, and strength work matter — deeply.
But only when they create habits that are dependable, unconscious, and resilient.
Train the pattern.
Integrate it.
Challenge under pressure
Then let it go
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If this resonates, you’re ready for work that actually transfers.
