Tag: health
Motivation Mondays: Group Fitness Starts This Week!
Our FREE artist fitness program will launch this weekend, with the meet up location to be announced in a forthcoming e-mail. If you have not yet sent an e-mail to nycartscene@gmail.com expressing interest in joining our list, please do so this week! We’ll send you the time, location and workout theme of this weekend’s meet [...]
Motivation Mondays: Artists Shape Up!
Being an independent artist is a full-time job, and for some people it’s a SECOND full-time job. Between booking, auditions, social media management, networking, promoting, performing, etc., it’s sometimes impossible to find 5 minutes to just grab a bite to eat and focus on your overall mental and physical well-being. NYC Art Scene wants to [...]
When All You Have Is Your Own Two Feet
Growing up a dancer there has been almost no period in my life where I wasn’t involved in physical activity of some sort (minus junior and senior year of college and believe me… it showed). As I’ve gotten older, moved, traveled, changed jobs, and fluctuated income it’s been a little more difficult to stick with [...]
The Healthy Musician: Tips for a Healthy Tour
Ten simple tips for a happier, healthier, productive tour. By: Elliot Jacobson 1. Use Twitter: to keep in touch with friends, family and fans. Twitter is great, not only for promoting shows and talking to fans, but also for keeping up with fellow musician friends. Coordinate meet ups if you’re passing through the same cities at the [...]
Fall Fitness Part Four: Work Your Core
Our fourth and final installment of this month’s Fall Fitness Fridays concentrates on those deep and rarely worked core abdominal muscles. Strengthening your core not only gives you lean abs and a flat stomach, it also helps to improve lower back pain by activating different muscles groups to handle difficult activities or excessive strain. I’ve [...]
Fall Fitness Part Three: Great Stretches
Last week we worked those core muscles and incorporated some total body toning, and this week we are stretching out! Stretching is not only good for your flexibility, it’s an excellent way to help maintain those long, lean muscles we crave. Here’s a few great stretches to get you started… you can incorporate them into [...]
Fall Fitness Part Two: The Ultimate Planks
Last week we discussed the back problems that artists encounter over the course of their career and how to improve and strengthen the muscles to alleviate that pain. This week we’re going to focus on one of the best total body conditioning exercises there is… the plank. Be careful not to confuse this with “planking,” [...]
Fall Fitness Part One: Lower Back Series
The back is usually the first muscle area to go as an artist. Whether you are carrying around equipment and instruments, sleeping in your car or other uncomfortable accommodations on tour, or working a job where you are on your feet for endless hours at a time, the stress and strain put on your lower [...]
Fall Fitness Fridays!
As a dancer and certified Pilates instructor, posture and core strength has been something ingrained in me from my earliest memory of ballet class. One of the most common complaints I hear from artists, particularly musicians and photographers (who have to lug around heavy instruments and equipment) is that they have lower back and shoulder [...]
Fitness for Artists
Living in New York City is expensive no matter which way you slice it. You can get an apartment in Brooklyn with 3 roommates, resort to a diet of oatmeal, eggs, and Chateau Diana, and somehow the bills still add up. Due to the high cost of living we’re forced to sacrifice certain luxuries, mainly [...]
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