Muscle memory is one of the best assets very top
athlete possesses. Please don’t mistake this to be some form of memory stored
in your muscles but rather is something which is stored in your brain. The
muscle memory is developed through constant repetitive activity be it like
endless amount of time spent in the gym training each part of your body or
practicing the perfect swing of the club for golf it all contributes to muscle
memory.
Muscle memory
more like a procedural memory developed due to repetitive moment, but the down
side of this if one practices an incorrect move repetitively be it an incorrect
form in exercising a specific muscle group the mind registers it and cannot
differentiate between a correct form and an incorrect one. Muscle memory forms
an integral part in one’s life as we need this right from riding bicycle to
weight training to typing on key board. Have you ever wondered how these elite
level athletes are able to get in shape compared to that of the general public?
That’s because they spent years training and perfecting their body and skill,
when they begin training again from a long break they retain the muscles or are
able to stimulate muscle growth quickly compared to others. It’s all because of
muscle memory, that’s why I say one should not only quantity but also “quality
of the quantity”.