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What does"Muscles have memory" mean?

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I have a history of working out but never have understood the meaning of that phrase Can you help?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago
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    Like riding a bicycle. Your muscle response becomes automatic -- that is you do not have to think about it very much...

  • Prasad
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    The physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased neuromuscular control when performing that activity again.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muscle_memory

    https://legionathletics.com/muscle-memory/

  • 4 years ago

    Muscle memory has been used to describe the observation that various muscle-related tasks seem to be easier to perform after previous practice, even if the task has not been performed for a while. It is as if the muscles “remember”. The term could relate to tasks as disparate as playing the clarinet[1] and weight-lifting, i.e., the observation that strength trained athletes experience a rapid return of muscle mass and strength even after long periods of inactivity

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory_(stren...

    http://www.menshealth.co.uk/building-muscle/what-i...

  • 4 years ago

    It means if you do some particular physical activity many times, you tend to become able to do it automatically, without having to think about it, after a while.

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