• cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Anecdotally I’ve always heard this and experienced it myself, interesting to see it’s backed by evidence!

    • Fei@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Definitely! I feel like this was fairly common knowledge even a decade ago and why people would quickly rebound back to previous size and strength when returning to fitness- muscle memory due to myonuclei persisting even when the actual tissue atrophies. I guess this is an additional state of memory for the body. Super neat!

    • wia@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      Same! I used to just explain this to others I was trying to get into working out or into an activity or something. I just assumed it had to be real from experience. Nice to see it scienced!