Muscle Memory
When I was getting ready for my wedding 20 years ago, I did Pilates regularly. Not at a studio with fancy equipment. At my house, with a DVD. I did the same workout every day. 20 minutes with Mari Windsor, who was the Pilates guru at that time.
I am a long person, I have a long torso, long waist and long legs. So for me, Pilates is something my body responds to very well. Pilates doesn’t give me the muscle definition in my arms that I have since gained through working out with weights, but it is excellent for my abs, hips, thighs and bum.
A couple of weeks ago I found my tried and true 20 minute Pilates video online and decided to add it back into my routine. Not in place of my regular workouts but in addition to them. I know there are more modern and updated Pilates workouts to be found. In fact, my daughter even has a reformer that I could use. But I remember how effective my simple workout was before and decided if it wasn’t broken not to fix it!
It’s amazing to me how quickly my muscles remember what to do, and how quickly I am seeing the results from adding this simple 15-20 minute workout into my program just three days a week. I’m seeing positive changes already.
Muscle memory is an interesting thing. When you are building your muscles, your body puts new cells into those muscles. You can lose your muscles if you aren’t maintaining them, but the cells that are produced don’t go with them. They just stay in your body, dormant until you reactivate them.
This made me wonder what else in my life is lying there dormant, but will come back quickly the minute I reactivate it? Are there things I’ve gotten out of the habit of that I just simply need to start doing again? How about you? Do you have some things that you want to see, but you’ve simply allowed to be dormant in your life?
The great news is the muscle memory is there. We just have to choose to reactivate it. We just have to start working toward those goals again.
Just because you’ve laid something down doesn’t mean you can’t pick it back up! Whether it’s something to do with fitness, or a dream you had that you forgot about, reactivate it and watch that muscle memory come back!
I am a long person, I have a long torso, long waist and long legs. So for me, Pilates is something my body responds to very well. Pilates doesn’t give me the muscle definition in my arms that I have since gained through working out with weights, but it is excellent for my abs, hips, thighs and bum.
A couple of weeks ago I found my tried and true 20 minute Pilates video online and decided to add it back into my routine. Not in place of my regular workouts but in addition to them. I know there are more modern and updated Pilates workouts to be found. In fact, my daughter even has a reformer that I could use. But I remember how effective my simple workout was before and decided if it wasn’t broken not to fix it!
It’s amazing to me how quickly my muscles remember what to do, and how quickly I am seeing the results from adding this simple 15-20 minute workout into my program just three days a week. I’m seeing positive changes already.
Muscle memory is an interesting thing. When you are building your muscles, your body puts new cells into those muscles. You can lose your muscles if you aren’t maintaining them, but the cells that are produced don’t go with them. They just stay in your body, dormant until you reactivate them.
This made me wonder what else in my life is lying there dormant, but will come back quickly the minute I reactivate it? Are there things I’ve gotten out of the habit of that I just simply need to start doing again? How about you? Do you have some things that you want to see, but you’ve simply allowed to be dormant in your life?
The great news is the muscle memory is there. We just have to choose to reactivate it. We just have to start working toward those goals again.
Just because you’ve laid something down doesn’t mean you can’t pick it back up! Whether it’s something to do with fitness, or a dream you had that you forgot about, reactivate it and watch that muscle memory come back!
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