Jaakkima
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Judging by the replies, I'm guessing that a lot of people didn't even read the OP. To me, this thread is very different from the "Weightlifting and Drumming" thread that focused on how these two activities go together. Totally different questions being asked.
I agree with everyone who has stated that drumming won't make your muscles big and that working out or growing big muscles will not make you a faster or better drummer. However, the TS asked if he has possibly practiced too much and is considering giving his body more rest (as it's something that weightlifters do). It is most certainly possible to practice drumming too much and sometimes taking a break can help - it's just that the amount and duration of breaks are different between drumming and weighlifting. With drumming, a couple hours might help whereas in weightlifting you might want a break between, for example, two deadlifting sessions to be several days, a week or even longer. Your CNS needs rest to adapt and build itself just like your muscles do. Also, when you're working out you're definitely training your CNS and many seem to think that it's actually a more important factor to lifting heavier weights than sheer muscle size.
As a practical example pertaining to drumming, I would not push myself to my absolute limit every day if my goal was to play double bass single strokes at 200bpm for 1 minute (or some equally musical goal . Instead, I would focus on practicing endurance at lower speeds on some days, doing fast but short bursts on some days and push myself hard closer to my goal on some days. It's very difficult to determine an optimal mix and the practice and rest durations, but I've experienced quicker progress with the kind of mixed approach described above as opposed to just pushing myself too long and hard every day.
EDIT: noticed that there's also another thread on fatigue so some of the people in this thread might've been referring to that one and not the weightlifting thread.
2ND EDIT: TS, your idea of practicing hands and feet on different days may be a bit extreme, but you could definitely try incorporate days when you focus more on hands and go lighter on the feet and vice versa to see if that helps. It certainly works for me and generally I usually start seeing results when I'm taking it a bit easier after periods of intensive practice.
I agree with everyone who has stated that drumming won't make your muscles big and that working out or growing big muscles will not make you a faster or better drummer. However, the TS asked if he has possibly practiced too much and is considering giving his body more rest (as it's something that weightlifters do). It is most certainly possible to practice drumming too much and sometimes taking a break can help - it's just that the amount and duration of breaks are different between drumming and weighlifting. With drumming, a couple hours might help whereas in weightlifting you might want a break between, for example, two deadlifting sessions to be several days, a week or even longer. Your CNS needs rest to adapt and build itself just like your muscles do. Also, when you're working out you're definitely training your CNS and many seem to think that it's actually a more important factor to lifting heavier weights than sheer muscle size.
As a practical example pertaining to drumming, I would not push myself to my absolute limit every day if my goal was to play double bass single strokes at 200bpm for 1 minute (or some equally musical goal . Instead, I would focus on practicing endurance at lower speeds on some days, doing fast but short bursts on some days and push myself hard closer to my goal on some days. It's very difficult to determine an optimal mix and the practice and rest durations, but I've experienced quicker progress with the kind of mixed approach described above as opposed to just pushing myself too long and hard every day.
EDIT: noticed that there's also another thread on fatigue so some of the people in this thread might've been referring to that one and not the weightlifting thread.
2ND EDIT: TS, your idea of practicing hands and feet on different days may be a bit extreme, but you could definitely try incorporate days when you focus more on hands and go lighter on the feet and vice versa to see if that helps. It certainly works for me and generally I usually start seeing results when I'm taking it a bit easier after periods of intensive practice.
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