People often describe muscle memory as the body being able to remember particular movements, or to regain the muscle mass that you lose when you don’t exercise for a period of time. What it truly means is that if you stop exerising for a time, it doesn’t take as ong to regain the muscle mass as it took the first time you did it. And it doesn’t have as much to do with your body actually remembering, as it has to do with mynuclei.
Key Takeaways:
- While muscle memory is real, it doesn’t work in the way that a lot of people think that it does.
- With muscle memory, if you take a break from strength training, you can rebuild the muscle that was lost faster than it originally took to do it.
- Muscle memory is not so much about remembering certain exercises, it’s more about the buildup of myonuclei.
“Muscle memory describes the ability to regain muscle mass in previously trained muscles.”
Read more: https://blog.nasm.org/muscle-memory
