No Reason To Peak At Pool

[JMW]

The prestige of being a tournament player does nothing to compensate for the torture I've put my body through. I have thrown away a decades worth of good health to play this game.

Everything has a life. Your body is like that of a remote control. Click it enough times and you will burn out. Training for years and not getting there at the same time destroying your muscle and surrounding tendons is not something I would choose had I known at the beginning. There is not enough love for anything to forsake your health. If I could i would trade my next million dollars for the damage I've done to be reversed.

How did playing pool ruin your health?

 

[Johnnyt]

Perhaps some of you should refresh a previous post on a book called "The Talent Code". Apparently there is a substance called Myelin that coats the neural pathways in the brain. As we program our muscle memory, this substance ensures that the electrical impulses remain insualted within the neural pathways.

As we age, the amount of Myelin drops off and if we do not consistently reinforce the necessary neural pathways, our ability to re-establish that insulating material becomes more difficult.

So, to answer the initial question .....yes, you can peak and reach a point where it becomes increasing difficult to recapture the performance you had in your younger years.

Fortunately, Myelin doesn't significanly begin to decrease until after 50-60 years of age. While we do produce Myelin throughout our life, the reduction has an impact on our ability to establish new pathways and reinforce existing pathways.

It seems that you really can't teach an old dog new tricks.

You're right about the Myelin, but if you play pool most every day there is no reason to lose muscle memory for pool. Johnnyt

 

[C.Milian]

How did playing pool ruin your health?

Every athlete grows the body at a very abnormal pace, especially the body builders. They do the worse damage to their body. The extreme ones. Forcing the body to do intense work outs causes it to mutate. It goes through a process of in-takeing a lot of food, and rebuilding the torn down tissues. Your body goes through this change and adaption quite frequently. They are very unnatural. The heart should not be pumping that much blood.

Pool players go through a similar process. There has been times I have eaten 8 times a days. How good is that for my intestines? stomach, and everything else that is involved.

Having gotten this far and looking at the last few stages of mechanics, I just want to save what I have left of my body.

 

[Tony_in_MD]

So you were overeating when you were playing pool?

Where you smoking too?

Sorry but the activity you describe, does not support your argument, now if you told me that you needed back surgery, from years of stooping over the table, or you got tendonitis in your elbow from millions of stroke repetitions, or even callouses on your fingers from stroking the cue, I could agree with you.

Maybe.

JMHO

Every athlete grows the body at a very abnormal pace, especially the body builders. They do the worse damage to their body. The extreme ones. Forcing the body to do intense work outs causes it to mutate. It goes through a process of in-takeing a lot of food, and rebuilding the torn down tissues. Your body goes through this change and adaption quite frequently. They are very unnatural. The heart should not be pumping that much blood.

Pool players go through a similar process. There has been times I have eaten 8 times a days. How good is that for my intestines? stomach, and everything else that is involved.

Having gotten this far and looking at the last few stages of mechanics, I just want to save what I have left of my body.

 

[C.Milian]

So you were overeating when you were playing pool?

Where you smoking too?

Sorry but the activity you describe, does not support your argument, now if you told me that you needed back surgery, from years of stooping over the table, or you got tendonitis in your elbow from millions of stroke repetitions, or even callouses on your fingers from stroking the cue, I could agree with you.

Maybe.

JMHO

Hey Gordo...what the hell does this question suppose to mean? smoke what crack or cigarettes?

I have callouses. Tendonnitis. A bad back. But I'm ok with that.

It's the other ailments pool related that really bothers me and is oh so going to creep up in my later decades.

Can you just not be a jackass and feel for me?

 

[Tony_in_MD]

Cigs, if you were smoking somthing else, you would not feel the pain in your back.

So what other pool related ailments do you have? Maybe I could feel for you then.

Hey Gordo...what the hell does this question suppose to mean? smoke what crack or cigarettes?

I have callouses. Tendonnitis. A bad back. But I'm ok with that.

It's the other ailments pool related that really bothers me and is oh so going to creep up in my later decades.

Can you just not be a jackass and feel for me?

 

[C.Milian]

Cigs, if you were smoking somthing else, you would not feel the pain in your back.

So what other pool related ailments do you have? Maybe I could feel for you then.

My neck and back, fingers, connecting tissues at the shoulder muscles by the traps. I get nightmares. My obliques don't hurt anymore, but they once did. That was about 3 weeks. Once, I had to stop in the middle of a poker game and massage myself against the edge of the bathroom entrance. Thats just the beginning. Sometimes I don't want to get out of bed after pool. And yes, I ate all the time. I had to heal. I'm a very skinny person, but pool made me big.

 

[JMW]

Sometimes I don't want to get out of bed after pool. And yes, I ate all the time. I had to heal. I'm a very skinny person, but pool made me big.

I feel for you... but how does playing pool make you eat more?

 

[C.Milian]

How does playing pool make you eat more?

When you change your body you have to eat more.

 

[the420trooper]

This thread certainly took a turn for the weird...

I knew an older guy who played pool for twenty years without improving. When he was about 60, he took a couple of lessons and managed to develop a pretty respectable game.

I'm sure the instruction helped, but I think what really spurred his jump in ability was his unwillingness to be content with sucking forever.

 

[C.Milian]

This thread certainly took a turn for the weird...

I knew an older guy who played pool for twenty years without improving. When he was about 60, he took a couple of lessons and managed to develop a pretty respectable game.

I'm sure the instruction helped, but I think what really spurred his jump in ability was his unwillingness to be content with sucking forever.

It's all the knuckle heads and the sh!t the smoke that makes them all over the place. Tony smokes weed to ease his back pain.

 

[Tony_in_MD]

Have you seen Immortals?

My neck and back, fingers, connecting tissues at the shoulder muscles by the traps. I get nightmares. My obliques don't hurt anymore, but they once did. That was about 3 weeks. Once, I had to stop in the middle of a poker game and massage myself against the edge of the bathroom entrance. Thats just the beginning. Sometimes I don't want to get out of bed after pool. And yes, I ate all the time. I had to heal. I'm a very skinny person, but pool made me big.