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Muscle Memory Isn’t What You Think It Is
In her new book, “On Muscle,” Bonnie Tsui investigates the other stuff our thews remember—like how to grow when you exercise.
But in the years that Adam Sharples played as a front-row forward in the UK’s Rugby Football League, he found himself wondering about cell mechanisms that helped muscles to grow after different types of exercise. When we talk about muscle memory, most of the time we refer to the way our bodies seem to remember how to do things that we haven’t done in some time—riding a bike, say, or doing a complicated dance we learned in childhood. When you lift weights, for instance, small molecules called methyl groups detach from the outside of certain genes, making them more likely to turn on and produce proteins that affect muscle growth.
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