Eli5 – How does muscle memory work ?
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The ELI5 version is that by doing something with some repetition you create something like train tracks that you will be able to go back and use later on even if you haven’t done that activity for some time. Essentially, those tracks are laid through your brain and sometimes the muscles themselves. Very rarely do we lose something if we have done it often, but sometimes it does require a bit of dusting off to “click.”
A little more technically, your brain will create and strengthen neural pathways (think of them like specific blueprints for how to do something), as well as even injecting your muscles with nuclei as is the case for exercising where your body at the local level will create actual and relatively long-lasting changes—or “memories.”
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