muscle memory
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- noun
- /ˈmʌsəl ˈmɛməri/
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memoria muscular
- You need to do it then to develop dexterity with those muscles and to get the muscle memory down.
- build muscle memory
- body retains muscle memory
- muscle memory kicks in
They'd be there and I'd feel, wow, I've developed a muscle memory and it just gets stronger and stronger.
- They'd be there and I'd feel, wow, I've developed a muscle memory and it just gets stronger and stronger.
- And then you're going to, it's going to start becoming more ingrained in you, like brain muscle memory as you start doing these things more purposefully.
- Can you tell people a little bit about muscle memory and how the muscle adapts to repeated bouts of resistance training?
- And I think getting that sort of muscle memory into people so that they know how to do it enables them to make those choices, etcetera.
- I was, I, I, I built the muscle memory before the tension arrived.
- I think the game now is out of muscle memory.
Examples
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My mentor and I trained so that my walk would become muscle memory and thus the slow MO turn and lava walk took on a life of their own.
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I have typed it so often that muscle memory tells my fingers where to go.
Blog text (16) -
Basically, "point and shoot" without thinking much, just muscle memory in the wrist.
Blog text (29) -
There are a ton of movements here that take time and muscle memory to develop if you want to get good at them.
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Felix said he started working out immediately after last season to keep his muscle memory intact.
Blog text (26) -
Can you tell people a little bit about muscle memory and how the muscle adapts to repeated bouts of resistance training?
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Poirier would often turn to the gym for his metaphors, talking about muscle memory achieved through exercise and repetition.
Academic text (2017) -
After practicing the piano for years, she found that her muscle memory allowed her to play the piece effortlessly.
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Through repeated workouts, he developed the muscle memory needed to perform the gymnastic routine automatically.
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The dancer's muscle memory kicked in during the performance, enabling her to execute the choreography without thinking.
Synonyms
A skill that lets you do movements learned by practice without thinking
Doing a task without thinking after much practice
Antonyms
How Automatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'muscle memory' is built from 'muscle' + 'memory' so a learner can infer it refers to a kind of memory related to muscles — i.e., learned motor patterns. However the idea that memory is not literally stored in muscle but is an abstract, automatic motor skill is a metaphorical extension, so the exact nuance (automatic reproduction through practice) may not be fully predictable without exposure; cross-linguistic equivalents (e.g., memoria muscular, mémoire musculaire) make the general sense more accessible.
Etymology
The phrase muscle memory comes from the picture of your muscle and memory working together: after you practice a movement many times your body seems to 'remember' it, like a piano player's fingers moving without thinking. So, it means the ability to do a movement 'automatically' because your body has learned it.