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Lifting Weights before a Tournament?

iusedtoberich
I was a gym rat for 20 years. Lower body affected my pool game the first couple years. It made me shake at the table because my legs were so sore. The rest of the body really had no effect from what I recall.

As I kept going through the years, I prioritized my lifting schedule, and it didn’t have any effect on pool.


Actually, recently I’ve been a bum and haven’t gone to the gym in a year. Just this week I went 4 days in a row. Only light work, just the bare 20kg barbell, and doing Olympic lifting warmup training. My entire body is sore right now because it’s been a year. But it hasn’t bothered my pool game.
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Lifting Weights before a Tournament?

cueball2010
westcoast said:
Depends on how heavy you lift- I've been lifting heavy (for me- there are guys at the gym much stronger than me) for decades on a consistent basis and I still get sore- it alleviates after a few days of training a body part, but you still get sore.
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Exactly.

How I understand lifting weight in terms of building muscle. You must get sore to increase gains. If you are not getting sore then you are only maintaining your current muscle mass.

If you are lifting regularly then you probably have your "max out" day once in a while, and should definitely be getting sore on that day at the very least.
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New WPA Official Rules of Pool … Learn About All the Changes

dr_dave
7stud said:
From "Billiards: The Official Rules and Records Book, 2021/2022 Edition" published by the Billiards Congress of America:



I interpret that to mean: there is an infinitely thin line drawn from the ceiling down through the center of the ball and through the table to the floor, and wherever that line passes through the cloth is the position of the ball.

I do not see "base of the ball" mentioned anywhere in the rule book, rather I see things like, "taking the cue ball in hand behind the head string". From that I infer "the position of the cue ball must be behind the head string", and the position of a ball is determined as above. It would be nice if there was a direct connection to the "position" defined in 8.13 by rewording the rule to "taking the cue ball in hand so its position is behind the head string."
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The position of the ball is the position of the center of the ball, which is the same as the resting point (vertically beneath the center). The definitions apply to the entire Rules document.
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New WPA Official Rules of Pool … Learn About All the Changes

dr_dave
JAM said:
Will the lady pros be allowed to show ankle skin if they wear shoes with no socks or short socks? I am reminded of when Chezka Centero from Philippines was penalized by WPA because her ankle skin was showing. To me, that is a really unusual rule and should be abolished.
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There is a dress code in the WPA Regulations, but individual events might have additional requirements. The dress code was not changed.
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New WPA Official Rules of Pool … Learn About All the Changes

dr_dave
King T said:
Hey Doc thanks for all the great work you do in helping the Pool world, your content is always excellent! Under the rules is it a foul if a player bridging over a strip makes contact with the strip and the cue ball at the same time, does that constitute moving two balls?
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If you make contact with any ball (except the tip with the CB) at any time, it is a foul.
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