Muscle Memory 101 #muscle #gym #GymTok
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If you take too much time off the gym and end up losing muscle, how long will it take you to build it back? Well, because of muscle memory, it's actually a lot faster than you'd think. When you first build muscle, two main things happen. First is that your brain just gets better at using the muscle that you already have. But second is that your muscle cells start adding something called myonucleitis. Basically, little control centers that help run and manage muscle growth. But each one can only manage so much muscle tissue. So to keep growing, you keep adding more of them. But what happens when you take time off and end up losing that muscle? When you lose muscle, they do get smaller. But those new myonucle that you built might not actually go anywhere. And the brain still remembers the connections you built. So when you start training again, your muscles might be smaller and not as strong. But they're way more efficient at building muscle than when you first start it. Which is why size comes back so much faster. But how much faster? Lucky for us, researchers wanted to find out. So they had people trained for 20 weeks straight to build muscle. Before taking 30 weeks completely off, where they lost basically all of it. And when they started training again, after that long break, it only took them 6 weeks to get it all back. Or about 3 times as fast. So yeah, losing muscle sucks. But your body doesn't forget.
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