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Larry Mullen is fitter than Cristiano Ronaldo, according to scientists.
Every time the U2 drummer rocks his way through a 90-minute performance on stage, he burns more calories than a Premier League footballer, research has shown.
Boffins connected musicians, including Blondie's drummer Clem Burke, to equipment measuring their heart rate, oxygen up-take, and the levels of lactic acid in their blood as they played a set.
The stress caused to their body as they played was then compared to top athletes such as Premiership footballers.
It was found that the drummers' heart rates were raised to as high as 190 beats per minute and they could burn off 600 calories in a performance.
The eight-year study on Burke revealed that drumming for an hour-and-a-half raised his heart rate to the same level as footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in a typical league game.
But while footballers only play about 50 games a year, the 46-year-old U2 drummer probably gets sweaty in front of a drum kit more often, particularly when the band do 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.
Dr Marcus Smith from Chichester University in Britain, who helped to carry out the research, said: "They [footballers] find playing a Champions League game once every two weeks a drain, but musicians are doing it every day when they are on tour. Their fitness levels need to be outstanding."
Despite the image of rock stars as unhealthy and unfit, Dr Smith said they needed"extraordinary stamina".
Every time the U2 drummer rocks his way through a 90-minute performance on stage, he burns more calories than a Premier League footballer, research has shown.
Boffins connected musicians, including Blondie's drummer Clem Burke, to equipment measuring their heart rate, oxygen up-take, and the levels of lactic acid in their blood as they played a set.
The stress caused to their body as they played was then compared to top athletes such as Premiership footballers.
It was found that the drummers' heart rates were raised to as high as 190 beats per minute and they could burn off 600 calories in a performance.
The eight-year study on Burke revealed that drumming for an hour-and-a-half raised his heart rate to the same level as footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in a typical league game.
But while footballers only play about 50 games a year, the 46-year-old U2 drummer probably gets sweaty in front of a drum kit more often, particularly when the band do 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.
Dr Marcus Smith from Chichester University in Britain, who helped to carry out the research, said: "They [footballers] find playing a Champions League game once every two weeks a drain, but musicians are doing it every day when they are on tour. Their fitness levels need to be outstanding."
Despite the image of rock stars as unhealthy and unfit, Dr Smith said they needed"extraordinary stamina".
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