Eye exercises

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I was in a scotch doubles tourney about a month ago and our final match proved to be most difficult. One of the guys on the other team was in his mid 70's and shot great, if it weren't for him dogging the eight ball they would have one.

After the match I complimented him on his ability at his age and asked him about his eyes because he did not wear glasses. He told me he wore glasses for years but started exercising his eyes and no longer needed them. After watching him shoot I was curious.

I did a little research and there seems to be plenty of sites(excuse the pun) that refer to this subject. My question is has anyone on here tried this and what do you think?
 
I've read about it sometime ago but have good vision at 70 yo, so didn't pay good attention to it at the time. I'm sure someone on here knows something about eyes.:D. Johnnyt
 
I have just recently read about certain exercises of the eyes. I will try to find them and post a.s.a.p
 
Yoga and Eye exercises

I try to do yoga 3-4 times per week. The benefits I get from it have been staggering, to say the least. The poses in yoga are designed to contract and expand your muscles for a full-body workout. Upper arms, lower arms, legs, back, neck, hips, feet, hands, everything. And these are all the same muscles that are actively used in playing pool.

Many of the poses in yoga also require your gaze to be focused in a particular direction (sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes sharply to the right or left, depending on what twist you're doing), and sometimes closed. Needless to say, over the past 11 months I've been doing yoga, I'm able to play pool much longer than I used to (very helpful in 2- to 3-day tournaments that start early and end late). My muscles don't tire as quickly, and my eyes stay sharp. (Of course, the beers don't help my eyes or muscles when I'm playing, but that's another story). So in addition to eye exercises, which I am a proponent of, I'd encourage everyone to start doing yoga. To boot, there are lots of hot chics in yoga classes (and I mean lots)!

But if you want to work out only your eyes, here is a good list of exercises to do:

http://www.holisticonline.com/yoga/hol_yoga_pos_eyeex.htm

Enjoy.
 
Eye exercises may help, but won't work for everyone.

There are several reasons why people wear corrective lenses, and eye exercises could prove ineffectual for some people. You wouldn't want to judge whether exercises "work" based on one (or one hundred) data points any more than you would assume glasses work by giving everyone a pair of reading glasses with the same prescription. Talk to an ophthalmologist first and find out more about your condition.

My condition is a combination of (1) lazy eye, (2) near-sightedness, (3) middle-age-itude, (4) snarkiness, and (5) training as a scientist and engineer, so I'm cautious about trying anything that could affect my eyesight. There's all sorts of questionable crap online written by people without appropriate expertise. I'm one such person who sometimes writes questionable crap outside my area of expertise, so I may have some . . . uh, expertise in that subject.

Taking a relaxant (hello, beer!) while playing can result not only in reduced inhibitions, reduced soundness of judgment (goodbye, cash!), and reduced driving privileges, but can also relax the muscles of the eye to cause a slight loss of sharpness. For some a latent "lazy eye" will make its move when the person is tired or chemically relaxed. In these cases, laying off the barley pop might help.

Ophthalmologists will confirm that for some people with a lazy eye, exercises performed 15 minutes a day over a period of many weeks may help straighten the eye slightly. However, those (like me) who don't have "fused" vision--that is, one picture from two eyes--could suffer more from double vision if the fields of view of the two eyes overlap too much. For someone with a lazy eye, having the eyes converge to be more or less straight is similar to someone with straight eyes staring at his own nose. Try this. Do you get double vision? Imagine putting up with that for long stretches of time.

If you're a betting guy or gal, trying exercises might be a fun proposition. As with any bet, you'd want to know the odds of winning, which in this case are the odds of improvement for your particular condition and age. Maybe the one-ball and the nine-ball are frozen and a "gimme" in the corner; maybe you're trying to go three rails off the one into the nine-ball hanging in the corner pocket. Maybe beer will make it easier to decide whether to go for the cheese.

Good luck!
 
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samy1969 said:
I try to do yoga 3-4 times per week. The benefits I get from it have been staggering, to say the least. The poses in yoga are designed to contract and expand your muscles for a full-body workout. Upper arms, lower arms, legs, back, neck, hips, feet, hands, everything. And these are all the same muscles that are actively used in playing pool.

Many of the poses in yoga also require your gaze to be focused in a particular direction (sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes sharply to the right or left, depending on what twist you're doing), and sometimes closed. Needless to say, over the past 11 months I've been doing yoga, I'm able to play pool much longer than I used to (very helpful in 2- to 3-day tournaments that start early and end late). My muscles don't tire as quickly, and my eyes stay sharp. (Of course, the beers don't help my eyes or muscles when I'm playing, but that's another story). So in addition to eye exercises, which I am a proponent of, I'd encourage everyone to start doing yoga. To boot, there are lots of hot chics in yoga classes (and I mean lots)!

But if you want to work out only your eyes, here is a good list of exercises to do:

http://www.holisticonline.com/yoga/hol_yoga_pos_eyeex.htm

Enjoy.
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Thanks I know a few people near this area that teach yoga and I will ask them also.
Rethunk said:
Eye exercises may help, but won't work for everyone.

There are several reasons why people wear corrective lenses, and eye exercises could prove ineffectual for some people. You wouldn't want to judge whether exercises "work" based on one (or one hundred) data points any more than you would assume glasses work by giving everyone a pair of reading glasses with the same prescription. Talk to an ophthalmologist first and find out more about your condition.

My condition is a combination of (1) lazy eye, (2) near-sightedness, (3) middle-age-itude, (4) snarkiness, and (5) training as a scientist and engineer, so I'm cautious about trying anything that could affect my eyesight. There's all sorts of questionable crap online written by people without appropriate expertise. I'm one such person who sometimes writes questionable crap outside my area of expertise, so I may have some . . . uh, expertise in that subject.

Taking a relaxant (hello, beer!) while playing can result not only in reduced inhibitions, reduced soundness of judgment (goodbye, cash!), and reduced driving privileges, but can also relax the muscles of the eye to cause a slight loss of sharpness. For some a latent "lazy eye" will make its move when the person is tired or chemically relaxed. In these cases, laying off the barley pop might help.

Ophthalmologists will confirm that for some people with a lazy eye, exercises performed 15 minutes a day over a period of many weeks may help straighten the eye slightly. However, those (like me) who don't have "fused" vision--that is, one picture from two eyes--could suffer more from double vision if the fields of view of the two eyes overlap too much. For someone with a lazy eye, having the eyes converge to be more or less straight is similar to someone with straight eyes staring at his own nose. Try this. Do you get double vision? Imagine putting up with that for long stretches of time.

If you're a betting guy or gal, trying exercises might be a fun proposition. As with any bet, you'd want to know the odds of winning, which in this case are the odds of improvement for your particular condition and age. Maybe the one-ball and the nine-ball are frozen and a "gimme" in the corner; maybe you're trying to go three rails off the one into the nine-ball hanging in the corner pocket. Maybe beer will make it easier to decide whether to go for the cheese.Good luck!
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Thanks theres a lot of info and fair amount of humor in your post. I should probaly ask a doc before I start changing the shape of my eyes to much:).
One thing is for certain... Cuebuddy loves beer and cheese.;)
 

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