can muscle stay permanently if worked out in the same fashion the brain is when memorizing things permanently?
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In attempts to memorize things, you will never achieve permanent memory if you don't stay on top of it.
In the same way, if you attempt to create "permanent" muscles, you will deffinately be disappointed. If not used, muscles will atrophy. In other words, you need to work out your muscles constantly, and work it up with more and more weight. (Besides using steroids) Body builders work out their muscles every day for hours. Unless you have a ridiculous amount of time every day, set aside some time, and head off to the gym if you want to keep your muscle mass.
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no. your muscles dont have what is called memory.
No it cannot. Muscle grows in order to be able to do things that you are trying to do. When you excersise, your body realises it needs more muscle, figuring that you are doing the excersise as a necessity to survive. Once you stop. your body starts to lose the muscle, because it figures that you no longer need soo much. Your body is efficient, and muscle needs food to survive. Once it realises that the muscle is not needed, it will get rid of it. Just like any company, if it has workers that they no longer have any use for, like 2 extra people working in the photocopy room, they will fire them. No, because even things you have learned can be forgotten over time (think of who sat next to you in Kindergarten, or what color your grandparents car was when you were a little kid). It is easier to relearn stuff (thank Ebbinhaus for experimenting on this) once we have learned it before, but nothing is completely permanent. Also, the brain is not a muscle--it is made of neurons (nerve cells). And neural paths (where the message travels) must be activated as to not atrophy. They may be activated by thinking about other things, not just the "learned" stuff.
Muscles are not nerves, they are muscles. And they need to be used to be kept up.
The short anwer is no.
But there is something called "muscle memory". This is when you have gained some size in the past, then quit weightlifting (for months or years) and you can regain the muscle you had in only a fraction of the time it took you to get it in the first place.
You see alot of this with guys spending years in prison pumping iron, and they get huge..but get released and do drugs, or get lazy - Usually they end up back in prison weighing 120lbs. The funny thing is, 2 months later thier back up to 220lbs, and buff as ever.
Muscle growth is caused by a function of the body called super-compensation or simply over compensation. An example of this would be a person with an amputated left arm becoming very strong in the right arm. The body reacts to stress and over-compensates to prevent damage in the future from similar stress. Memorization of a particular movement has nothing to do with the amount of stress a muscle perceives. I have a T shirt that says: Grow or Die, which refers to individual muscle cells which are either growing or dieing. When it comes right down to it – everything in nature is either growing or dieing. Nothing is permanent as you put it. Everything is alive, in one form or another.They don’t actually die, but they atrophy ( might as well be dead) Remember this the next time you have an craving for Haagen-Dazs “Fat cells can only be created not destroyed” without surgery of course.
Ciao Mike
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