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Originally Posted by Leon Grizzard
Answering seriously, I would think strength conditioning would in fact improve your guitar playing; it is true of every every sport that I know of, and maybe because these are smaller muscles it is different, but I can't think of why that would be. Runners get faster when they weight train. Why wouldn't your hands and fingers get faster? Certainly endurance would improve, and I find my hands crapping out at the end of three hours of playing. I agree that repitition of the tasks at hand is much more important, but I wouldn't just write off a little more strength as being useless.
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Well it won't hurt- but it is a different group of muscles or some muscles used differently.
As Klasaine says- it is a light touch that you need more than brute strength.
Think of playing a musical instrument akin to playing table tennis rather than power lifting, running, long jump, kick boxing etc.
I am sure that a table tennis champion would go to the gym and do some resistance training, but it wouldn't be the most important thing in their training program.
I am not against weight training in any way, shape or (correct) form- it is one of the best things a person can do for themselves when done properly, but the effect on my guitar playing has been pretty minimal.
Now, diet- that is a different thing all together.
Should we get into that?