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Fitness and Guitar

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Apart from being a musician, I'm also a fitness enthusiast. I have been for the last 10 years. Only a few would've thought of whether the gym is going to affect your abilities on the guitar. Truth be told, yes it does affect your guitar abilities.  How? Well, we all know that the guitar is an instrument that you can use to shred on, play really cool riffs, solos, legatos, and the list just goes on. A lot of the things that one plays on the guitar involves fast finger and hand movements.  For me, I'm more of a calisthenics guy, I train in calisthenics six times a week, but I also go to the gym three to four times a week, so I don't have THAT much of a problem. Today we're talking about people who go to the gym six times a week and that's all that their fitness training involves...weights and cardio. For you guys, your gym training might just be hampering your abilities to play the guitar. The reason for this is, the workouts that you do in the