It seems like the idea of “muscle memory” spans many aspects and activities of life, from small fine motor movements such as playing an instrument, to large movements such as gym exercise or running. The list goes on. What is this phenomenon?
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Actually muscle memory has to do with having motor neurons in your muscles.
For example. Say you are learning to dance. At first you are AWFUL at it, not because you can’t do it but because you’ve never actually moved your body in that way and your muscles need to actually form the motor neurons in your muscles to help you to be able to move that way.
The more you repeat the attempted moved, the better you become, the stronger the connections of motor neurons have in that muscle.
If you don’t do it for a while, the connections with die down but in general you will pick it back up quickly because the connections have been made before.
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