• cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

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

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      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!

    • Fei@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours 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!

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        9 hours ago

        My app shows the image as “failed to load” and I’m now a little curious if that is funnier than whatever you actually put there.

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          It’s not supposed to be an image, it’s supposed to be a link? Weird. But I also like that it shows failed to load, that works too! I am so used to putting image links I accidentally made it an image link first before I made it a normal link, maybe the edit hasn’t propagated to your instance yet.

  • Asafum@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That’s kinda cool to hear! Not that it’s been terribly long so it might not even affect me, but I finally got myself into the habit of working out doing simple body weight exercises for over a year and then I either tore something or got tendonitis in my elbow at work and had to stop for like 4 months now… Glad to know I won’t be losing as much as I thought if I have to say off the arm for much longer.