Drummers Are Actually Top Athletes
You can’t expand that much energy through all four limbs without becoming rather fit. Julia found this story from several years back through the BBC:
Playing the drums for a rock band requires the stamina of a Premiership footballer, research suggests.
Tests on Clem Burke, the veteran Blondie drummer, revealed that 90 minutes of drumming could raise his heart rate to 190 beats a minute.
Despite rock’s reputation for unhealthy living, Dr Marcus Smith, from Chichester University, said drummers needed “extraordinary stamina”.
A hour in concert could burn between 400 and 600 calories, he said.