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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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I noticed the same a while back and looked it up, and some website says 1 hour of drumming is about equal to 10k steps in burned calories. I don't know how accurate that is, but going by my sweat levels after 1 hour of drumming, I'm counting it.
Haha, I can imagine it would be true, but would certainly depend on the fitness, style/genre, and technique.
Here's the heartrate graph to match post. I consider my technique very good at being conservative, but there's clearly times there I was playing something fast and furious that jacked heartrate (mainly punk-style rockabilly).
Edit: Can legit see where I played fast, thought, "Okay, need something easier." and did lower BPM before being drawn back into fast shit again.
A big caveat maybe that I've been making music for decades but only started playing drums a couple of months ago, so it's not going to be very efficient drumming + I'm a programmer, so my fitness is already very low :D