Muscle memory

[tufguy]

Your muscles have memory. They tend to get back to the size that you had most of the time in the past(during bodybuilding phase). It doesn't matter how much muscle loss you go through.

Please check my sentences.

 

[Skrej]

The first sentence is fine, although it's distracting because the term 'muscle memory' is a very different thing than what you're trying to describe.

The second sentence needs some work. To begin, try replacing 'get back' with something else, then rephrase the second half of that sentence.

The third sentence is fine.

Edit: So apparently the term 'muscle memory' is also used for the process you're trying to describe. I stand corrected.

 

[tedmc]

The sentences are grammatically correct but factually doubtful.
I thought muscles would lose their mass through lack of use, particularly among the elderly group. How do they revert to a previous condition if you do not exercise them?

 

[tufguy]

The sentences are grammatically correct but factually doubtful.
I thought muscles would lose their mass through lack of use, particularly among the elderly group. How do they revert to a previous condition if you do not exercise them?

During cutting phase you lose muscle mass but when you try gaining again it is easy to get muscle mass back.

 

[tufguy]

The first sentence is fine, although it's distracting because the term 'muscle memory' is a very different thing than what you're trying to describe.

The second sentence needs some work. To begin, try replacing 'get back' with something else, then rephrase the second half of that sentence.

The third sentence is fine.

Edit: So apparently the term 'muscle memory' is also used for the process you're trying to describe. I stand corrected.

Your muscles have memory. They tend to get as big as they were most of the time in the past(during your bodybuilding phase). It doesn't matter how much muscle loss you go through.

 

[emsr2d2]

What do you mean by 'cutting phase'.

I wondered that too and Googled "cutting phase bodybuilding". And there it was. Who knew?!

https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/cutting-down-and-leaning-up.html

 

[SoothingDave]

"Muscle memory" is already a defined term that means something else.. Choose other words.

 

[Skrej]

Dave, that was my original observation, but in the world of body-building, it's apparently a set term with a different meaning. Tuffguy is using the body-building definition correctly.

As distracting as it may be, it's not wrong to use it.

 

[tufguy]

"Muscle memory" is already a defined term that means something else.. Choose other words.

What does "Muscle memory" normally mean?

 

[tufguy]

Dave, that was my original observation, but in the world of body-building, it's apparently a set term with a different meaning. Tuffguy is using the body-building definition correctly.

As distracting as it may be, it's not wrong to use it.

How about my sentences?

 

[GoesStation]

What does "Muscle memory" normally mean?

It's usually used to refer to physical tasks that have been learned by rote until you don't have to think about what you're doing. When you perform such a task, it feels like your muscles are acting on their own as if they remembered how to do it; as if your brain were not involved at all.

I don't have to think about where to put the thumb of my right hand when I play a G7 chord in the third inversion on the piano. It automatically reaches for and hits the F and the G because I practiced my chord inversions countless times years ago when I was learning the instrument. It feels like my hand knows what I want it to do all on its own.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

During cutting phase you lose muscle mass but when you try gaining again it is easy to get muscle mass back.

I haven't found that. Far from it!

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It's usually used to refer to physical tasks that have been learned by rote until you don't have to think about what you're doing. When you perform such a task, it feels like your muscles are acting on their own as if they remembered how to do it; as if your brain were not involved at all.

I don't have to think about where to put the thumb of my right hand when I play a G7 chord in the third inversion on the piano. It automatically reaches for and hits the F and the G because I practiced my chord inversions countless times years ago when I was learning the instrument. It feels like my hand knows what I want it to do all on its own.

Exactly. In typing, playing a musical instrument, or kicking a ball, you don't have to think about the letters or notes or ball because your muscles remember how to go where you want them to go automatically. You don't have to think about it. You just do it.

My G7s are on guitar and mandolin, but it's the same process: Practice. Learn it. Forget it. Do it.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

How about my sentences?

Oh, those. They're fine.