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I’d say that’s true. It’s easier to get strength back than it was to get it in the first place. Anecdotally I went to the gym regularly for a long time. It took weeks to add weight increases. I quit because covid, work, etc. Started going again years later and it was far more rapid weight advancement, however it was harder to hit the higher weights I’d done previously. Just getting older, I guess.
TIL my muscles have a laudable imagination.
Awww my muscles must be depressed as fuck
Fun story:
I restarted playing volleyball after more than 10 years of not playing.
The reflexes were kinda still there (i’m getting old so I am slower), but the muscles weren’t.
First block I do, I hurt my shoulders stabilisators. They still hurt to this day, but I never really stopped to recover until now.
So they might remember, but they need time to reactivate and become strong again haha
Four touchdowns in a single game, Peg
If coach would’ve put me in 4th quarter, we’d have been state champions, no doubt. No doubt in my mind. You better believe things would’ve been different.
Peg
Muscles on my right hand after I’ve found GF
Human hands don’t have muscles 🤓
There actually are muscles, just not many with most of the movements being derived from forearm muscles pulling on tendons
prove it
My muscles are fine, it’s the fat cells that need to forget.
Reset cache, delete cookies
delete cake
Jokes on them they can’t remember what they didn’t have
My muscles:
My app shows the image as “failed to load” and I’m now a little curious if that is funnier than whatever you actually put there.
It’s not supposed to be an image, it’s supposed to be a link? Weird. But I also like that it shows failed to load, that works too! I am so used to putting image links I accidentally made it an image link first before I made it a normal link, maybe the edit hasn’t propagated to your instance yet.
Anecdotally I’ve always heard this and experienced it myself, interesting to see it’s backed by evidence!
Definitely! I feel like this was fairly common knowledge even a decade ago and why people would quickly rebound back to previous size and strength when returning to fitness- muscle memory due to myonuclei persisting even when the actual tissue atrophies. I guess this is an additional state of memory for the body. Super neat!
A few years back I regularly ran half marathons. If I missed a few weeks of training due to illness, work or whatever’s, the trainer would often say „the body never forgets“. Thought it was just old guy pseudowisdom, turns out there’s science behind it!
Yeah, it’s been my anecdotal experience, too :-)
Same! I used to just explain this to others I was trying to get into working out or into an activity or something. I just assumed it had to be real from experience. Nice to see it scienced!
When I was about 17 I started training for my first backpacking trip. First shakedown hike I loaded my pack up with about 40 or 50lbs, and I think I lasted about 5 minutes before I went back to my car to lighten my load because I was dying carrying it.
Worked my way up to doing it no problem over the next few months, and for the next few years I hiked and backpacked pretty regularly. I never exactly got in good shape, I had a gut the whole time but I could carry a heavy backpack 10 or occasionally 20 miles a day up and down mountains no problem.
I’ve been a lot more sedentary the last few years just due to being a busy adult with a wonky schedule. I still squeeze in some hikes here or there, but nothing with a heavy pack, and rarely doing more than 10 miles, and usually not going up and down any significant mountains, and I’m definitely not hitting the gym or anything, and I’ve probably packed on about 50lbs of mostly fat since I was 17.
But still, a couple months ago I went backpacking with a friend. Didn’t really do anything in particular to prepare for it, and I still carried about 40-50lbs in my pack
And I did just fine. Definitely huffed and puffed a bit more than when I was in my prime backpacking shape, and I was definitely a bit sore and had some blisters after it, but I was able to hit the trail with a heavy pack and almost no prep and I definitely couldn’t have done that when I was just starting out at 17 years old despite being generally younger, healthier, and more active back then.
So to a pretty great extent, my body definitely “remembers” how to backpack.
I was a good middle-distance runner, did some competitive road cycling with moderate success, and did martial arts for a long time. I’ve also done some long-distance walking, but never with heavy packs. I hate those.
I took an extended break from the martial arts, but recently returned to a related activity. My mind knows what I should be doing, but my body isn’t always able to deliver. But that tells me where I need to train in order to get back to it, and the training has been yielding results.
I had always assumed the memory was in the cerebellum rather than in the muscles themselves, though. That’s where fine muscle coordination happens. So this is an interesting finding.
I struggle to run now. My natural stride, what I’m comfortable at, was my old normal pace of 7:30 minute miles (8 mph or 12.9 kph or 4:40 minute kilometers). And that’s where the muscle memory wants to put my feet. Except I don’t have the lungs or the muscles to do that for more than a minute or two without getting spent.
I know if I want to get faster again I should just train, but my heart just isn’t in it at the speeds that I have to go.
Do they remember all the video games? Will they retain those mad Elden Ring skillz?
Look I picked up TF2 after a decade and I was hitting air rockets in no time
Based on getting progressively better each time I played through one of the horizon games even with months or years between them, I’d say yes.
When I first started, I was awful with aiming and stuff (shooters have never really been my thing, I’m trash at aiming, horizon is JUST far enough from a full-on shooter that it piqued my interest and held it solidly), now I’m playing actual FPS/TPS because my skill and muscle memory in that regard has improved substantially. Enough that I got platinum on both horizon games. :)
They record your saved games.
Is this sort of like the nursing home ladies saying that some frail looking men would still have grips of steel? Is that why they are still so “strong” in that sense?
Do they remember me and my college gf?
Honestly I find this to be true. It’s not like starting over, my body wants to return to fit & skinny, it’s easier for me. Just like they say bodies remember fat they remember fit.
Shit, they must be very disappointed with me…
The couch potato genes don’t forget.
