Evening all
I'm a fairly average club player, regular-ish 40 and 50 breaks, with occasional 70s and the odd foray into the dizzy heights of the 90s.
Recently I've started properly going to the gym - nothing huge, just trying to get into a bit of shape, 40-minute workout on the machines, a few weights and whatnot, twice or three times a week.
In the last month or so my snooker has really hit rock-bottom. The other night I played with a mate for over 2 hours and had a highest break of 9! (Amazingly, we drew 4-all!). It seems to be just relentless awfulness, I feel like my brain and my arm have no communication with each other at all, I can concentrate all I want but I just get the feeling my elbow will do whatever it wants and no brainpower will influence it. I am, quite literally, playing as badly as I was in 1990 when I was a newby teenager!
I don't think I've knocked a long pot in since January, and fairly often I hit the red on completely the wrong side.
So, having thought about everything tonight to draw my thoughts away from smashing the cue into shards*, I wonder whether it is all because my arm is possibly a completely different machine from six months ago so some major tweak needs to take place?
Any thoughts as to whether working out could have such an effect?
(* My cue was made in about 1922, so I really don't want to snap it for at least another five years so I can legitimately say it has made a century!)
I'm a fairly average club player, regular-ish 40 and 50 breaks, with occasional 70s and the odd foray into the dizzy heights of the 90s.
Recently I've started properly going to the gym - nothing huge, just trying to get into a bit of shape, 40-minute workout on the machines, a few weights and whatnot, twice or three times a week.
In the last month or so my snooker has really hit rock-bottom. The other night I played with a mate for over 2 hours and had a highest break of 9! (Amazingly, we drew 4-all!). It seems to be just relentless awfulness, I feel like my brain and my arm have no communication with each other at all, I can concentrate all I want but I just get the feeling my elbow will do whatever it wants and no brainpower will influence it. I am, quite literally, playing as badly as I was in 1990 when I was a newby teenager!
I don't think I've knocked a long pot in since January, and fairly often I hit the red on completely the wrong side.
So, having thought about everything tonight to draw my thoughts away from smashing the cue into shards*, I wonder whether it is all because my arm is possibly a completely different machine from six months ago so some major tweak needs to take place?
Any thoughts as to whether working out could have such an effect?
(* My cue was made in about 1922, so I really don't want to snap it for at least another five years so I can legitimately say it has made a century!)
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