Body memory...

[Assertive Guy]

I know this is an unusual question, posted it on another board, but no responses.

Muscles have like a muscle memory (having experienced it after 8 months off) - but do ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and connective tissues have memory also?

Assertive

P.s. This board is *strangely* active, but then it's ficticious hm.

 

[SgtSlaughter]

No idea.



Have you done any research on it?

 

[immortalis]

I know this is an unusual question, posted it on another board, but no responses.

Muscles have like a muscle memory (having experienced it after 8 months off) - but do ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and connective tissues have memory also?

Assertive

P.s. This board is *strangely* active, but then it's ficticious hm.

I really dont think so.

As i've taken time off, and come back and hit the gym hard... my muscle memory obviously kicks in and I start making rapid gains very quickly until I reach about 80% or so of what I was at prior to the layoff.

However I see an increase in injuries quite a bit in regards to tendons and ligaments.

Ive been prone to cartilage tears quite a bit in my past, so I wont comment too much on that because my perspective is from a guy whos had multiple surgeries to repair cartilage tears.

If tendons and ligaments had similar properties like muscles do as far as muscle memory goes, I wouldnt think that I would see these types of injuries as often as I do. It seems like they arent used to having that much stress on them because my body has rapidly gotten stronger than it has been for the past X time period.

I believe thats why I saw so many of my teammates in college get tendon and ligament related injuries while using gear, because their body isnt ready to handle the kind of stress that adding 30 pounds of muscle puts on it.

Just my thoughts.

 

[steelmass]

yes, i know a person that benched ungodly amounts of weight for his day (at sanctioned meets). He then took off 10 years and then got back into the game with a new arsenal of igf-1, hgh, and new designer drugs and was right back to where he left off. No way he coulda done it if his ligaments couldn't hold it.

 

[fireman664]

yes, i know a person that benched ungodly amounts of weight for his day (at sanctioned meets). He then took off 10 years and then got back into the game with a new arsenal of igf-1, hgh, and new designer drugs and was right back to where he left off. No way he coulda done it if his ligaments couldn't hold it.

Im not sure if they have the "memory" or not, but they dont react to stimulous as quickly as muscle, so I dont try to push my combacks too quickly

 

[toxicsambo]

I know this is an unusual question, posted it on another board, but no responses.

Muscles have like a muscle memory (having experienced it after 8 months off) - but do ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and connective tissues have memory also?

Assertive

P.s. This board is *strangely* active, but then it's ficticious hm.

Having a Bachelors in Science I can say positively that muscles have memory along with the other living and breathing organisms in our body. ANy cell that breaths and has mitochondrial DNA has memory and can regenerate.
Ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and connective tissue is nothing but support and made of non living tissue, so they DONT have memory.

So, if you don't work out for a year, and once was 210 pounds solid, and could bench 450lbs, you can regain the strength and muscularity becasue your MUSCLES remember that it was once that size and could handle that kind of a work load.

But it still takes work. Not as much as you needed to build up to it the first time, but still you cant jump into it. You have to give the muscles time to adapt to regain its previous form. Also, your tendons and ligaments have grown resilient and strong due to the last growth cycle, so you can handle using the same weight again, with steady progress to get back where you left off.

The only thing that stops muscle memory is age. The body begins to decompose and all you can do is work with what you have, or ask your Dr. for gear to reverse the aging process.

2 examples of muscle memory and cell memory.
1) A smoker can regenerate lung tissue by quitting. He may not regain 100% of his previous lung capacity, but he will regain most of it by allowing the carcinogens to be expelled and replaced with oxygen, giving life back to the cells. The remaining cells will rebuild tissue. But of course there are points of no return, like anything else.

2) When you tear a muscle, it is replaced with SCAR TISSUE, which is nothing more than fibrous CARTILAGE. That's why ppl who tear muscles must be very careful with weight because the area of muscle is dead and replaced with non-living tissue that is there to patch up a tear. Remember, there is no mitochindria in cartilage, so it has no life and no memory.

 

[serapio2]

Shit man that's very interesting, you definitively know your stuff

 

[Assertive Guy]

Having a Bachelors in Science I can say positively that muscles have memory along with the other living and breathing organisms in our body. ANy cell that breaths and has mitochondrial DNA has memory and can regenerate.
Ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and connective tissue is nothing but support and made of non living tissue, so they DONT have memory.

So, if you don't work out for a year, and once was 210 pounds solid, and could bench 450lbs, you can regain the strength and muscularity becasue your MUSCLES remember that it was once that size and could handle that kind of a work load.

But it still takes work. Not as much as you needed to build up to it the first time, but still you cant jump into it. You have to give the muscles time to adapt to regain its previous form. Also, your tendons and ligaments have grown resilient and strong due to the last growth cycle, so you can handle using the same weight again, with steady progress to get back where you left off.

The only thing that stops muscle memory is age. The body begins to decompose and all you can do is work with what you have, or ask your Dr. for gear to reverse the aging process.

2 examples of muscle memory and cell memory.
1) A smoker can regenerate lung tissue by quitting. He may not regain 100% of his previous lung capacity, but he will regain most of it by allowing the carcinogens to be expelled and replaced with oxygen, giving life back to the cells. The remaining cells will rebuild tissue. But of course there are points of no return, like anything else.

2) When you tear a muscle, it is replaced with SCAR TISSUE, which is nothing more than fibrous CARTILAGE. That's why ppl who tear muscles must be very careful with weight because the area of muscle is dead and replaced with non-living tissue that is there to patch up a tear. Remember, there is no mitochindria in cartilage, so it has no life and no memory.

It's nice to know elite has people like you part of it. Nice.

 

[todoveritas]

Muscle memory is thought to be due to neural pathways with reverberating circuits creating physiological memory. Since connective tissue lacks neural components, they have no neural pathway and thus have no memory.