Good luck with that...:smile:
i need to get lucky with that, :smile:
anything I do at the gym will be big for me, since i trained for 14 years I have a solid base to work from muscle memory is still there, I will see results to a point very quickly then level off, i will gain 15 pounds the first moth back and then lose as much fat as possible over the next year(if everything goes as planned, diciline is not a issue here). I cant ever body build anymore-which really really hurts, I remember when I was having heart problems before the back issue. I walked out of the gym cryiny-litterly, I hadnt cryed in probably 4 years, I did when my dad died. I knew with my heart issue that bodybuilding was gone forever, It would be like any pool player losing his hand, eyesight. I did get back in the gym sometime later and was in very good shape when the back problems exploded. I trained until the pain was so bad I couldnt stand it. I started using a injectable opiate bodybuilders used long long ago for pain so I could train. Eventually I stopped the gym and Nubain(pain killer).
I'm starting the gym very lightly after the US Open, Mika told how he trains for pool at the gym. If you are too sore especially your upper pec muscle and bi-cept secondly, you cant play pool cause of the stiffness of the healing muscle. Mika told me what to do, he said stick to 20 rep sets using light weight, you'll activate the muscle but not tear it down so it dosent get stiff when it repiars itself. You wont get any size training like this but you get fit and a fit player has the edge over a un-fit player everything else being equal. I firlmy believe this. So this is exciting-I have a plan here and I will post the results as time goes on.
Learning to win, thats a whole different ball game, and I dont have the tools, or experience I have in fitness. I did have a winning % as a player for many years(I'm not counting beating kids for $35) but in action at $100 a set or more. At the time $100 was alot of $$$ for me. So this area is what I must put all my focus on this "pool season", of course everything else i learded this past year will still be going on as well, i'm just focusing on the score now. Befor I waas happy to play good. Now I want to play good and win-which was not happening enough this past year. So I have my work cut out-there is no short cut here. I have alot to learn.
I played the 10 ball Ring Game atthe derby 2 years ago. I knew I had no chance to win it. I had a couple of goals and very good reasons to play in it. First I wanted to support pool-so it was a $3000 donation into Shanes pocket, LOL(your on the make up kid), I had to test myself-I have played with 100 people watching me before-but never under the lights in that big of a setting. I was a very shy person years ago in pool(and life) and was there just un noticed. I wanted to see how my nerves would be in that setting, I was very relaxed and felt like I belonged there(I dont interms of how weak I am with my game), but I was very comfortable. I had another goal, I just didnt want to be the first person knocked out. I was the first out with Atr Keck at the same time. I never really had a shot, which we all know is the case in ring games sometimes. I really wanted just one cosmo to see what it felt like to get in gear and then break and keep going. I never really had that chance. But I know I wasnt shy to be there, I had fun and if my $$$ is right I'll do it again. Perhaps the bank ring game next time.
I havent made $$$ in 17 months and counting. that is to Say that my bills every month have been 3 times my income. Thats just how it is. everything I do has been out of savings, I never planed to fail, but I didnt fail to plan-so I saved alot of $$$ when things were rolling good. Its been rough this past year I have lost pile of $$$, equity, etc. I did give a promis last year to do it this year and i'm sticking to that, I also said that I hoped to make it bigger this year. If I can I will.
