Your Muscles Do Remember… But Not The Way You Think

Did you know that if you start working out, your body will kind of “remember” what it’s like to be strong, even after you take some time off? How are your muscles able to do that?

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Sources:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2010-11-source-long-term-motor-memory.html
https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/musclesgrowLK.html
https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.00019.2003

10.9 Development and Regeneration of Muscle Tissue

https://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/219/2/235.full.pdf
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003188.htm
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.01887/full
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190125084106.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0047637482901051?via%3Dihub
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29282553