What's your opion

[greatgunz]

Do you think muscle memory is fact or fiction

 

[captainahole]

I don't think it is. I do think education is what makes it seem like muscle memory does exist.
think of it. Take ten years or more out of the gym go back in and start all over. What's the one advantage you have over the newbie in the gym. YOu don't have a learning curve you have the education from your previous training.
So instead of spending one or more years learning proper training diet, techniques etc you know it.
I can attest to that cause Ive done it.

 

[ExtraMile]

I hope it is because next year I wil miss out of alot of gym time because of exams...

 

[oso0960]

Where's the option saying It's not real? lol. Anyway, I really have no idea. Although I'm betting the person coming back from a layoff will see better increases than a newbie if both at same level. I think of it like this...I'm sure the CNS adaptions that took place in the person coming back from a layoff can rebound very quickly. Since his body once knew how to efficiently recruit motor units, why would it suddenly forget how to...being that it was the most efficient? Kind of like a bicycle. If you haven't rode one in a while, you don't lose the ability to balance yourself on one.

So, I believe the person coming back from a layoff will maintain some strength and see amazing strength increases for a while. Then say he is near where he used to be and starts training for hypertrophy. He'll blow back up.

 

[artificialaspirations]

Its real. I took a few years off and got most of my strength back within 3 months. I agree with the captain that education might have the most to do with it. You know what to do and don't have to waste your time.

I restarted 2.5 years ago and wonder if peeps at the gym noticed the new fat guy that started working out and gained muscle, lost fat and almost doubled his strength in 12 weeks. It was fun then you plateau and change things and keep on going. Its like being a newb again, you see changes in the mirror every day.

One piece of advice is that the tendoins will not adapt as fast as your muscles and you have the potential to overload them in no time. Tendonitis is a sign...do not work through it. It will not get better unless you stop and take a break.

 

[greatgunz]

Bmp

 

[Melaina]

Muscle has memory %100 fact..

 

[timtim]

Where's the option saying It's not real? lol. Anyway, I really have no idea. Although I'm betting the person coming back from a layoff will see better increases than a newbie if both at same level. I think of it like this...I'm sure the CNS adaptions that took place in the person coming back from a layoff can rebound very quickly. Since his body once knew how to efficiently recruit motor units, why would it suddenly forget how to...being that it was the most efficient? Kind of like a bicycle. If you haven't rode one in a while, you don't lose the ability to balance yourself on one.

So, I believe the person coming back from a layoff will maintain some strength and see amazing strength increases for a while. Then say he is near where he used to be and starts training for hypertrophy. He'll blow back up.

exactly. the motor pathways which were once there will activate again. its like riding a bike.