Is Pool Exercise?
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I'm 5'11". Was 212lbs a year ago when I bought my table. Now 179lbs. I have not changed diet, or anything else in the least. When people ask about my weight loss I joke it's from playing pool. But honestly, I now walk in circles 3 hours a day, bending at the waist every 20 to 30 seconds.
Playing pool is the joke, but pretty sure that's it.
Playing pool is the joke, but pretty sure that's it.
it just kept you away from the fridge for a few hours lol
Actually fridge is down and up a flight of stairs. 12-15 beer runs a night might be helping as well.
Depends on your age and what condition your in and if your overweight or not. For the seniors that are non-active 2 or more hours a day playing pool can do wonders for you. I know this because my last nursing job was running a ACLF. After I put an 8' table in the 20 or so seniors that played it most every day gained strength, more pep in their step, ate better, and helped their mental outlook on life. Johnnyt
Actually in the respect of burning calories, pool is excercise. 160 min of practice by yourself you burn 595 calories. I used to use myfitnesspal app to lose weight and pool was on there as cardiovascular.
I've heard that standing is far better for one's health than sitting, so I'd say yes it is, at least at a modest level.
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Not too much, you are not raising your heart rate much nor stressing the muscles. It is better than sitting in a chair watching TV though.
I recommend a mini fridge for your pool room, very worthwhile investment
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I would say yes. You do a lot of stretching and bending, some walking. You also do a lot of thinking so it is good for mental acuity. Best of all you can do it any time. You don't need tee times, you can play by yourself, weather is not a factor and you can even play at home with the same championship conditions pro's would have in a tournament. You can 't say that about golf, bowling, tennis and so on. Few other sports offer such a lifetime of recreation as pool.
When I had the pool rooms I was always happy to see the older players who may be at the door waiting for the place to open. They have a place to come where all that is required is an interest in pool. Everyone is equal. You may see a guy in his 70's playing with a kid in his teen's. In the real world these unlikely friends would never even talk to each other as they moved past.
When you RUN the table it is called a "RUN OUT", not a walk out, so I will ask you is Running Exercise? Is walking Exercise? Of course it is. Laying in bed or sitting still on the couch isn't exercise, neither is sitting in a chair in a cubicle for 8 hrs. If your heart beats more than normal, it's exercise.
Try playing in Vegas from 9am to 4am the next morning and tell me how your legs feel, like you ran a marathon in two hours. If that doesn't tire you out, then spend a whole week at BCA Nationals and walk around Vegas and tell me your legs aren't tired after 7 days, and you don't feel like getting rest afterwards. We have all experienced it, and it sure feels like exercise to me.
LOL, Enjoy your day.
Try playing in Vegas from 9am to 4am the next morning and tell me how your legs feel, like you ran a marathon in two hours. If that doesn't tire you out, then spend a whole week at BCA Nationals and walk around Vegas and tell me your legs aren't tired after 7 days, and you don't feel like getting rest afterwards. We have all experienced it, and it sure feels like exercise to me.
LOL, Enjoy your day.
I'm with you on this. My wife carries a pedometer, works from home, and raves about how many steps she took in a day as a form of exercise.
So if this counts, then the time I spent in a pool hall shooting pool has to be consider a heavy work-out.
It's exercise for me...rest for the other guy :grin-square:
Raising the H/R depends how much your playing for. :smile:. Johnnyt
Definitely. I played pool average 3 hours a day in the last year. I didn't change
anything else in life, and I've lost a couple of pound in weight. My annual
blood-tests results are perfect (in only 2 years in the last 10). Just walking around
the pool table would do it, instead of sitting in front of a computer.
anything else in life, and I've lost a couple of pound in weight. My annual
blood-tests results are perfect (in only 2 years in the last 10). Just walking around
the pool table would do it, instead of sitting in front of a computer.
Try practicing your break using a breakRak for an hour, then play a Fargo set. That also takes about an hour...10 games wih high intensity cuz 1 miss and u lose.
I would wake up the next day HURTING all over. Feet, muscles, exhausted. Great workout for mind, body and pool. I promise you, it's excersize...don't believe it, try the workout I just laid out. You'll hurt.
I would wake up the next day HURTING all over. Feet, muscles, exhausted. Great workout for mind, body and pool. I promise you, it's excersize...don't believe it, try the workout I just laid out. You'll hurt.
I forget who it was, and since its Saturday I'm not looking it up, (although it will probably bug me later so I will end up looking it up anyway) but one of the old school players actually wrote something up about the exercise involved in his pool routine...
Ended up he was walking a few miles and bending over several hundred times per day. But of course this was back when billiard tables were twelve dam feet long and a bit taller than they are today. Nonetheless , if you are standing, bending and walking around for several hours, that's a lot of calories burnt...
Ended up he was walking a few miles and bending over several hundred times per day. But of course this was back when billiard tables were twelve dam feet long and a bit taller than they are today. Nonetheless , if you are standing, bending and walking around for several hours, that's a lot of calories burnt...
If you are playing Snooker on a 6x12, you are "exercising"
your Mind and your Limbs.
your Mind and your Limbs.