I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles!
Muscles. We're talking about muscles? They're like pets, basically, and they're not worth it. They're just not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don't, they just go away. They run away.
Vocally, it's important to sing every day. It's a muscle, and you have to keep it in shape.
Take care of your muscles and they'll hold up.
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it.
The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.
The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.
Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.
I give special treatment to every single muscle in my body.
At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.
I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
