I’ve not been on a bike in years and I know for a fact I could get on one right now and be fine. I’ve gone a while without playing guitar but I’m still able to pick it up and play a lot of the things I could do when I was constantly playing.
Why and how do our bodies do this? Is it mainly mental?
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1. You generally learn them early on in life.
2. You generally practice them *a lot*.
This means your brain builds a lot of connections so that it can repeat these things very quickly (meaning you have to explicitly think about them less). And while those connections can and do degrade over time without reinforcement, they never go away completely and are very easily reactivated by getting back into that activity.
Those are all pretty repetitive actions so when you do them it’s easy for your brain to do and remember them. on a bike you just kick your legs, you move your arms and legs for swimming and an instrument is similar to something like writing
Ummm, Ive forgotten a few of the things on this list. Am I the only one? Haven’t done some stuff in a a few decades. General mechanics but…
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