Revealed! Why artists exercise

When most people see artists displaying their six-packs and toned bodies acquired after several workout sessions in the gymnasium or through home exercises, what mostly comes to their minds is that those artists are showing off their attractive physiques.

Artists who have been found guilty of this showoff include Iyanya, Banky W, Flavour, Sean Tizzle, Mo’ Cheddah, Omotola, D’Prince, Peter P-Square, 50 Cent and LL Cool J.

They show off their amazing physiques because they disciplined themselves to undertake strenuous workouts to acquire and maintain them and then feel that the world should see their achievements.

So blame them for being vain as they don’t really have to show them off.

But why do these artists work out? Is it to attract ladies (in the case of men), to while away time, to be in good health or to just show off vainly?

Well, Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog can authoritatively reveal that the reason most of your favourite artists are spending countless hours and money exercising their bodies is so they can sing or rap better, perform better on stage and thereby make more money.

According to a voice training expert, Joel Adeyemi, “The importance of exercise to artists cannot just be valued. Daily exercising helps artists use their voices better in performance and also helps them have an overall better performance as performance requires expending energy and exercising helps them prepare to properly expend energy on stage.”

Speaking further, he said, “People don’t really know that singing requires energy. But the fact is that it does. For a singer to perform long hours or hit high notes and shuttles between high and low notes easily and constantly during a performance requires energy and that energy is best gotten through exercise.”

Explaining how exercise actually helps artists sing better, he said, “When you exercise, your diaphragm grows bigger and is able to contain more air. It is this air that singers use to sing. The bigger their diaphragm, the more air they have to sing. Likewise, if their diaphragm is small, it’ll contain just a small amount of air that won’t permit them do wonders with their voice. Imagine a singer trying to sustain a note to mesmerise his audience and he runs out of air in the process, his voice will become a croak and that would be very embarrassing for him.”

A voice trainer for several years now, Adeyemi said that there are many exercises available to artists but that the best of them is swimming.

“Swimming is the total exercise for an artist. Swimming employs the use of the whole body, the internal and external organs and all the senses and that’s why it’s the best exercise for a serious singer.  Others are good as well, pushups, situps, squats, even lifting weights at the gym, but none of them compares to swimming.”

And in corroboration of Adeyemi’s revelation, a singer, Cjay, recounted his experience when he went to record a song in the studio recently.

“When the producer told me to sing so he could record, he wasn’t satisfied with my delivery. The next thing he told me was to start doing pressups right there in the studio. I thought he was joking but he appeared very serious so I started doing them. I didn’t even get up to fifteen before I couldn’t continue but he told me to keep doing it and after I had managed to do over a hundred with several pauses in-between, he told me to go and sing and I murdered the beat the way he wanted and that I liked too and since then I’ve been exercising religiously as the producer told me that constant exercise would help me sing better.”