How much warm-up time do you need?

How long do you need to warm-up?

  • I'm always good to go

    Votes: 19 17.1%

  • <15 minutes

    Votes: 38 34.2%

  • 15-30 minutes

    Votes: 32 28.8%

  • 30-60 minutes

    Votes: 17 15.3%

  • >60 minutes

    Votes: 5 4.5%
  • Total voters
    111
OnTheMF

OnTheMF

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I'm curious how much warm-up time everyone else needs to get "up to speed"?

I see lots of people just show up and they seem to be running at full speed right out of the gate. Myself, I find that at a bare minimum I need 20 minutes of dedicated time just to myself on the table, and that 30-45 minutes is even better. Although I am fairly new to pool, so I would assume everything is not as "grooved in" as the old timers.
 
my standard warm up is the tried and true stop shot line.. I try to do it every day

5 dead straight stop shots each at 1,2,3,4,and 5 diamonds away.

takes ~15 minutes or so and by the time I'm done my alignment and speed control are good to go
 
It depends on where you are at. A good warmup can set the tempo of a good workout, then you cool down. Oh wait, thats gym talk. Pool though I'd like to hear from the experts about this.
 
OnTheMF said:
I'm curious how much warm-up time everyone else needs to get "up to speed"?

I see lots of people just show up and they seem to be running at full speed right out of the gate. Myself, I find that at a bare minimum I need 20 minutes of dedicated time just to myself on the table, and that 30-45 minutes is even better. Although I am fairly new to pool, so I would assume everything is not as "grooved in" as the old timers.
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Thanks much for this, i highly appreciate it.:smile::smile:
 
softshot said:
my standard warm up is the tried and true stop shot line.. I try to do it every day

5 dead straight stop shots each at 1,2,3,4,and 5 diamonds away.

takes ~15 minutes or so and by the time I'm done my alignment and speed control are good to go
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Excellent point. You know pool my man. I hope i do not draw you in a tourney. But seriously great, i'd add few slow speed cuts, couple of easy (common banks), and few hard hits at pockets to see how they react.
Thanks much.:smile::smile::smile::smile:
 
I selected 15-30 mins on average but sometimes I only need to sink one ball and right there I feel it for the rest of the day.

Its true, we can be in a slump for months but it only takes one good stroke and perfect position to know that we're back!
 
If you're a league player, you may not get much time to warm up, so you better use it wisely. Playing a game or two with your teammates is not a warm-up. You may not get a shot, or you may get only difficult shots. Warm-up should include simply rolling the cue ball a few times to get a feel for how the table is playing, and a variety of EASY SHOTS. Do basketballers start their shoot-around with 30-footers? Do pitchers throw their first pitch of the day at full speed? Do golfers start their putting drills with 40-footers? No. Missing shots in warm-up only adds negative memories to your memory bank, so don't shoot any tough shots until you've made at least a few easy ones!
 
Jimbojim said:
I selected 15-30 mins on average but sometimes I only need to sink one ball and right there I feel it for the rest of the day.

Its true, we can be in a slump for months but it only takes one good stroke and perfect position to know that we're back!
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I know that "feeling" you're talking about. I think it is just the endorphins kicking in when you make one particularly good stroke on a shot and think that you have arrived. Unfortunately for me, it is kind of like a quasi-mirage; sometimes it acts a little for real and other times, I ask myself, "Where the hell did my stroke go?". These days I go to a pool tournament thinking I can win every one of them, only to soil myself in the process. This pool competition thing is tough......:p
 
I need about 15 to 30 minutes because I only play about twice a week. Problem is I'm exhausted after 32 minutes and can't play well anymore. :scratchhead:
 
There is no selection for years?? I usually need a good year to warm up and most of the time thats not even good enough!
 
If I'm dead dog tired I'm good to go after 6 long table speed slow rolls and 3 or 4 hard stop and draw shots. Slow rolls tell me how the table leans. Being tired makes me focus faster for some reason.

I get up at 0100 to go fishing, Great Lakes and show up to play at either 1100 or 1400 without sleep. By 6 or 7 pm I'm hungry, tired and grumpy.

Normally when I'm fully rested I'm good to go right out of the gate. I play my best games cold?
 
I play in a senior league in Florida where warm up is impossible. 2 or more people start hitting balls around on the same table at the same time as if they really have a warm up process.
I like playing solo...I never get warmed up playing partners.
Takes me about 15 minutes to loosen up and adjust to the lighting.
 
I need to hit 4 or 5 balls, usually just throw a handful on the table and play the layout. Then order a beer and I'm ready to go.
 
It totally depends on how much I am playing. Right now? I would need about a month of "warm-up time" to shoot decent. When I was shooting alot of competitive pool for months and in the midst of a tournament where I was playing 8+ hours of pool for days? I need about 5 minutes at the most to loosen up the stroke.

It is impossible to give a specific number, the less shooting I am doing the more I need to warm up. After a week of no shooting at all, even if I was in dead stroke the week before, it might take 20 minutes to shake off the rust and get the stroke back to feeling natural and get the aim and spins feeling like second nature.
 
Some of my best runouts have been ice cold, strolling in off the street. If you've been stroking the same way for ten years, you're not gonna lose it in 24 hours or forget your accumulated knowledge or strategy.

The only time I hear anyone talk about warming up is after they just lost their first league match. Then it's an excuse - 'yeah I didn't have any time to warm up'. I've never heard anyone say "I credit my win to the hours of warming up I did before the match.".

Obviously it will make sense to need a little practice time on a totally unfamiliar table, or if your muscles are stiff or sore and you can't swing your arm freely because you were, I dunno... shoveling snow or something.
 
CreeDo said:
Some of my best runouts have been ice cold, strolling in off the street. If you've been stroking the same way for ten years, you're not gonna lose it in 24 hours or forget your accumulated knowledge or strategy.
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This LOL it brings back a very particular memory of getting breakfast on a sunday morning at a local tavern.

I played a friend of my dads who use to be very strong himself in his younger days.

No warmup at all just coins in the table, break > run, coins back in break > run

he gg's and that was that lol.

Now, I get maximum one game warming up before tournaments. Sometimes I don't even hit a single ball. All depends on how you're feeling I guess. Warming up never seems to do anything for me really.
 
paksat said:
This LOL it brings back a very particular memory of getting breakfast on a sunday morning at a local tavern.

I played a friend of my dads who use to be very strong himself in his younger days.

No warmup at all just coins in the table, break > run, coins back in break > run

he gg's and that was that lol.

Now, I get maximum one game warming up before tournaments. Sometimes I don't even hit a single ball. All depends on how you're feeling I guess. Warming up never seems to do anything for me really.
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That is also true because every shot is different in tournaments...they are the same but the pressure and atmosphere is different. Sometimes we think too much of the consequences of a missed shot (opponent is gonna run out if I miss) than the shot itself...
 
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