Intersting facts

As I got back to training I really benefitted from Muscle Memory a very outragous function our body has. Muscle memory has been used to describe the observation that various muscle-related tasks seem to be easier to perform after previous practice, even if the task has not been performed for a while. It is as if the muscles “remember”. The term could relate to tasks as disparate as playing the clarinet and weight-lifting, the observation that strength trained athletes experience a rapid return of muscle mass and strength even after long periods of inactivity.

Until recently such effects were attributed only to motor learning occurring in the central nervous system. Long-term effects of previous training on the muscle fibers themselves, however, have recently also been observed related to strength training.

Until recently it was generally assumed that the effects of exercise on muscle was reversible, and that after a long period of de-training the muscle fibers returned to their previous state. For strength training this view was recently challenged by using in vivo imaging techniques revealing specific long lasting structural changes in muscle fibers after a strength-training episode. Thats also probably the reason I leveled so viciously fast in the last four weeks since I began once again. It definitely gave me a tremendous advantage. Hell yeah :D