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Muscle memory is when you’ve done something so many times, you don’t even have to think about doing it. When someone asks you your name, you don’t think about your response. It just comes out, without conscious thought. That’s the same idea as muscle memory. A professional athlete doesn’t think about how they’re going to throw a ball or score a goal, they just do it instinctively because they’ve done it in practice so many times.
As for “controlling” it, I’m not really sure what you mean. Muscle memory happens through practice and repetition. There’s not really a way to “control” it.
Muscle memory is a misnomer, it just means “learning to do something physical to the point where you dont have to think about it to do it” All it takes is regular practice doing the thing, and you will eventually gain a “muscle memory” for how to do it and can do it without thinking about it.
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Learn how to ride a bicycle. Most of your muscles are involved. If you had to actively think of when to control which muscle you’ll never be able to ride.
You start by daddy holding the frame and pushing you. So you practice to steer and keep your balance – first group of muscles trained.
No you try to ride on your own, next group of muscles involved. But starting and stopping is still not easy because the single groups are not trained to work together yet. With every start and stop they get more used to it.
During all that training your supercomputer ( brain) writes a program about when to use which muscle.
Later when you hop on a bicycle, your brain will automatically start the program and you don’t have to think about it anymore.
I had to learn morse code when I was younger (I know really old). It was so hard at first.
“OK, a dot then a dash, that must be A, OK better write down A.”
A couple of months later after hundreds of hours of practice. “I heard a sound, I wonder what I’m having for my tea, I seem to have written the letter A.”
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