Here are my stats from the song. 126 bpm from complete rest... I'm pretty happy with that. If you try it, bounce as much as you can. Be firm with your sticks, and sink deep in your squat. Make it count!
Friday, June 10, 2016
Monday, June 6, 2016
Cardio Drumming...my experiment.
I recently attended a cardio drumming class in town. It was interesting and very appealing to different levels of fitness. For me, I had a lot of fun. Since I have an aerobic ball, I set mine up on a crate in the living room and used two small trash cans on the side that I picked up for less than a buck at Walmart. I did buy some actual wooden drum sticks online for about $5.
When I attended the class, it didn't seem to really get my heart rate up. But I did not have my heart rate monitor on that day. So today, I create a playlist on YouTube of some cardio drumming videos that were online and let it run continuously while I had my heart rate monitor on. These were some that I thought were not too complicated to learn and that weren't too easy when it came to cardio. Bear in mind that I really try to get into it and squat deep and make big arm motions when I do these activities.
My results...
You can see that my average heart rate was nothing great. 105 is not at all where I like to be. However you can definitely see where each song changed and how quickly my heart rate would come down in between songs. So my goal over the next week is to find a few popular songs and try to create some more difficult and more heart-pumping routines on my own.
It is a lot of fun though and I do want to mention that time really does pass quickly when you are doing cardio drumming exercises. And a stepwise, if you are counting your steps, it counted me as just over two miles in about 28 minutes so that's not too bad.
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