Weight training and drumming muscles

Well, I just got home from my meeting with a salesgirl at L.A.Fitness, and she's taken lots of my money. I'm quite excited about all this, and my induction is on wednesday where a trainer will show me what to do and how to use the weights. Really luxury place, tv's everywhere,( mostly in the running machine room), and I can use the swimming pool everyday. You're right Dazzler, it's gonna take time. My initial goal is to gain a stone in about a month if I can. I'm eating a fair bit now of tuna, steak, things like that, and I bought a blender and have been making protein shakes every day with a banana and ice cream thrown in [img]cool.gif[/img]

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I'm eating a fair bit now of tuna, steak, things like that, and I bought a blender and have been making protein shakes every day with a banana and ice cream thrown in

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">....bloody hell, I wish I had your poblem!!

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I stopped lifting for a year after hearing Dave and Simon warning that it may have an adverse affect on your drumming.

The only problem was that it got more difficult to lift the drums into my van!

My experience is that the only weight lifting exercies that have really negatively affected my drumming are forearm curls or any other exercise designed to build the forearms and exercises for the calves. As long as I stay away from these, everything is cool.

Oh yeah, and I started lifting again.

Hey much is a stone in kg or lbs?

Look at Danny Carey aswell...he is quite big and well built, and he says he lifts weights all of the time...it doesn't seem to have a negative impact on his playing...in fact, I think Danny Carey is an awesome drummer...also look at a guy like Steve Hass....he looks to be in really great shape and he's a monster player player aswell...

1 stone = 6.35 kg or 14 pounds

I wish I could give you a few of my pounds, Rudy. [img]wink.gif[/img] Good luck with your weight training.

I work out and have noticed an added strength/power just in my legs from doing calf raises. I had to adjust my kic drum input levels in the studio for I noticed peaking and clipping, took a few to figure it out, it finally made sense that after doing the workout routine for almost 6 months my legs were much more stronger and was taking less effort playing, but there was more velocity.

Just remember that if you are lifting, you should always lift with high intensity, do supersets and pre-exhaust techniques and LET YOUR MUSCLES REST.

That is a secret I'm sharing with you. I doesn't take being a gym rat to get a LOT stronger.

There are two differing schools of thought, the Arnold school, which preaches set after set after set with high reps and the Mike Mentzer/Nautilus school which preaches low reps, low *sets*, heavy weight, high intensity, pre-exhaust, and long recuperation times.

I tried both and I think the minimal workouts with long recuperation times is the best and have done the most for me.

It's in the resting, not in the lifting, where the muscle is created. It's a paradox. You want to work harder and harder and longer, but it just doesn't work that way.

There's a type of training called Plyometrics which can be beneficial for drumming. It's used by athletes and incorporates speed and bounce. Watch out for things like stiff barbell curls, it can affect timing and thus reduce power.