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Is rock/metal/fast tempo music drumming a workout?

I've been to multiple dieticians, doctors, health instuctors, even cardiologists and have asked whether or not quick tempo music is bona fide aerobic exercise; each of which replied with 'No, it cannot be considered an aerobic workout', so my question is mainly aimed at drummers who might have backgrounds in health: Is drumming good cardio exercise?

Playing fast music is definitely a workout. Not playing it on your CD, of course, but if you watch some thrash metal drummers, the music requires that you hit the drums relatively hard, in comparison to playing top 40 music, or jazz, and it's also thrash metal, so it's very fast most of the time. Fast + hard hitting + use of 4 limbs = workout.

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One Response to “Is rock/metal/fast tempo music drumming a workout?”

  1. Steel And Bone Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    Playing fast music is definitely a workout. Not playing it on your CD, of course, but if you watch some thrash metal drummers, the music requires that you hit the drums relatively hard, in comparison to playing top 40 music, or jazz, and it's also thrash metal, so it's very fast most of the time. Fast + hard hitting + use of 4 limbs = workout.
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