Playing drums + HRM - Log or not?

hrm only work for actual cardio.

did you setup vo2max in your hrm? you will need to with stats like yours or any value given will be very inflated..

Drummer:



Fittest member of U2?

Probably.

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You raised your heart rate, so technically it counts. I know playing drums, especially heavy metal drumming with machine gun double bass can be one hell of a workout \m/

On that note, I probably wouldn't log them, just so I didn't eat too much. But this is really up to you.

I log when I have to wrestle my toddler into her clothes three frickin times a day. I work up a sweat and my heart rate increases dramatically. If you burned it, you earned it. If there is <any> doubt about the quality of the calorie tabulation, I wouldn't "eat it back".. just like I don't eat back the calories I log from more low impact activities. (Bowling, light cleaning, food prep, toddler wrestling, etc.) I only "eat back" my calories after intense cardio workouts, walks/runs 2 miles or more and when I clean vigorously (I clean houses for a $$ PT). Hope that helps!!

I would log it, but as strength training (not to track calories burned, just to track muscle and strength training)

I suppose if you're really desperate to eat more you could log anything and everything that raises your heart rate - like driving in rush hour traffic!

But if you're that hungry, you should probably just raise your activity level settings/lower your lbs/week goal so you can save yourself the trouble.

If you think it counts count it. Plenty of people log more active video games as a work out.

My fiancé is in a band. Yes it counts =p (real drums)
Not too sure about Rock Bank though...

Hey! I don't think there is right or wrong answer. I'd say you'll have to use your best judgement. I do think, overall, logging exercise can potentially slow or halt weight loss, if that is your goal because it's all such an estimation game...unless you are weighing each morsel of food and counting calories to the finite digit (which some may say and think they are to them I bow to thee, but even still it's never 100% accurate) and then when measuring your calorie burn with or without setting a heart rate monitor up to meet your personal stats...it's all going to be fuzzy numbers. Ballpark. So, to play it safe, personally I just log the workouts that truly fall into the "workout" category. ANY EXTRA MOVING you do is going to be icing on the cake. So, keep doing the rock band thing, it's burning way more calories than watching someone else do it. The people on here who mock such activities and related question displease me.

I'd log it...keep those beats coming.

Oh yeah and here something fun to do when you first get the HRM: wear it to do mundane life things, grocery shopping/going to your normal work for 8 hours (like if you are a nurse or someone who moves a lot and can actually get away with having it on)/helping someone move/painting a wall...whatever...and THEN wear it just sitting and staring at a TV or computer for a same time duration and SEE the difference in burn between sitting at resting heart rate (total resting heart rate...like the sloth hear rate) and the rate at which your heart beats moving while doing ANYTHING that isn't considered "CARDIO" (by those that have stringent criteria that needs met before classifying an activity as such). You'll noticed you burn WAY way waaaay more doing SOMETHING, anything...than just sitting. It kinda makes you wanna find things to get into! And keeps you from sitting for too long when you know you'll fit in an extra 100 cal. if you just GET UP.

correct.. hrms are only accurate while doing cardio as i said. note. heartrate going up does NOT mean cardio is being done. being scared, being hot, having medical conditions, can all raise heartrate, but have no bearing on calorieburn.

cardio in this case is defined as the bodies cardio energy system is providing power to move the muscles. when dking low impact things like drumming it's more so the fatty acid system powering the body. it's far more efficient, so hrm calculations will be inflated. in your case even less accurate since your resting rate is so high so the vo2max variable in your hrm is way off giving you a naturally to high calculation.

tldr: only use a hrm while doing honest to goodness cardio. anything else and your hrm is spitting out a random number.

I use TDEE so can't remember how it's set up if you're doing it the MFP way. What I would do is this:
- figure out how much activity you're really doing. Here is a chart to compare METS. I bet drumming's in the 1-3 MET range. Count that plus all the exercise you do on a calculator like this or this to get your weekly activity level
- Then go team TDEE

fwiw all the drummers I've ever known have been really cut. Seems like a lot of work