is muscle memory for real?

[viking88]

im 21 and i stopped training for 2 years, went through a loser stage and was doing drugs and all that

but ive cleaned up my act and am looking in to getting back into the gym (summer is around the corner so i gotta look good for the beach haha)



so my question pertains to whether or not muscle memory is real

[jimmyinkedup]

yes..it will return much more quckly than it would take to build it from scratch. I experienced this firsthand after a long tern debilitating accident...

[Dr Pepper]

Agreed I had a year off and within 2 months I was looking good again...

[rockinred]

Times three... muscle memory and strength memory is real.

[Times Roman]

I agree that it is real, i've experienced it over and over again during my life.

but as i dig deeper, obviously muscle has no "memory". so i wonder if it is simply a mental thing (i've one arm curled 90lbs before, so i know i can do it again - sort of thing), or if there is some type of high water mark for tissue, where up to that point, somehow, it is easier to find your way back? i think it might be a little of both. seriously can't discount the mental thing. some guys have "true grit" and know how to force their muscles to work, and others don't