Is muscle memory legit.

[kelkel]

Like AG said, ease into it. Training should be geared to simply acclimating your tendons, ligaments, joints etc initially. Give them time to adapt then slowly ramp up the weight. Listen to your body not your ego.

[Testie]

Like AG said, ease into it. Training should be geared to simply acclimating your tendons, ligaments, joints etc initially. Give them time to adapt then slowly ramp up the weight. Listen to your body not your ego.

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This would be my advice as well, I jumped back in a few years back and my muscles came back a lot quicker than my tendon strength, to answer your question muscle memory is a real thing in my opinion especially if you have particular strength plateaus like you once benched xyz mentally as well you can visualize what you have done or looked like before. Good luck

[BIGMAC250]

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This would be my advice as well, I jumped back in a few years back and my muscles came back a lot quicker than my tendon strength, to answer your question muscle memory is a real thing in my opinion especially if you have particular strength plateaus like you once benched xyz mentally as well you can visualize what you have done or looked like before. Good luck

Appreciate the input man. Visualizing what I used to be capable of was the reason for getting so discouraged and not sticking with it the few times I actually forced myself to go to the gym over the years. So your personal experience definitely reinforces the 180 in my approach to getting back into things.