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Hi Drum_101 and g'day to you too.
To answer point 1: Drum sticks and the resistence in your kick pedal aren't workin you that hard. The kinds of muscle you build up from drumming are endurance type muscle fibres which use the oxygen aspect of our respiration rather than ATP. They don't get that big in other words think of the skinny long distance runners and their build. And yet all drummers don't end up looking like that. hmm maybe its because drumming doesn't make you that much fitter. Yatzi!
To answer point 2: Exercise involves your body responding to the stimulation of the stress placed on it by activity so that you can adapt to it. Once the physical activity has been adapted to then all that needs to happen is for your body to maintain that level of fitness above your basal metabolic rate. But drumming simply isn't as demanding on the respiratory system as doing a power walk or playing AFL or soccer etc. And it doesn't produce the muscle mass of weight training or anything requiring ATP.
It requires more of you than watching TV or ordering a pizza but probably not as much energy as digesting the pizza! LOL
Peace,
cortisol
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