Muscle memory and competitive training

photo credit: chrisamichaels

I was having a conversation with my friend Terra over GTalk on how I need to slowly add on to the training regime I have so that my body continues with its pattern of reshaping. I went directly, as you may have read in previous posts, to swimming 3 times a week, running 3 times a week and doing weight training 6 times a week. All of the above, shifting to eating smaller meals (3->6 times a week)

When I was playing competitive volleyball, I was training 6 hours per day on top of all my other activities (dancing, school, volunteering, etc). But admittedly, I don’t have right now the body constitution to go back to that highly-intense regime. I mentioned to Terra that one of the things I really enjoy is how fast my body responds to exercise and training, and she mentioned that one of the reasons why my body responds that fast is precisely because of the muscle memory.

I recall a blog entry on my friend Julie Szabo‘s blog on how she could, at some points, still do a double salchow (figure skating), and I remembered that it’s true, muscle memory DOES have a definite positive effect. I was and have always been an athlete, even when I have stopped exercising due to so much work. So, I’m really glad that my muscles’ memory works so well!

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