What Exactly is Muscle Memory

[Kamael83]

I just read through SurferJoe`s posts and I can`t stop laughing...
What are you getting so excited about Joe?
I mean seriously....We are all talking about same thing and we all agree on the mechanic of "muscle memory".
Problem with you is that you absolutely can`t see beyond literal meaning of "muscle memory"...My advice: think outside the box for a second ))
Or write to oxford / harvard or whoever is taking care of english language dictionaries to remove that compound as you cannot understand it, since muscles do not have grey mass )
For instance: do you have same problems with understanding sentence: "If I were in your shoes"?? Believe it or not There is another then literal meaning !!!
I will brake it down for you:
To be in someone else`s shoes means to be in his / her`s position (read more like situation then position). Sentence indicates that if I were in your shoes. I would be in your situation. Example: I would say: I would love to be in Marcus Miller shoes...This doesn`t mean I would like to wear his shoes....This means I would love to be as great bass player as he is with all pros and cons (if there are any ))
Now back to muscle memory thingy : Muscles can memorize things like I can be in your shoes Hope this helped
Be a bit more metaphorical...life gets happier

 

[Fergie Fulton]

Please surferjoe, enough is enough.

It is so funny when you get things so out of context and make up expressions and meld words into new phrases....yet you do not accept Muscle Memory as a viable description of what is being experienced.

Please try and understand the difference in the many wild and varied things you say are not only confusing, but really show that you do not have a grasp on what it is you are trying to present. Please do not take it the wrong way but at least get the basics correct and there terminology.

For example... Cardiac muscle has a function to pump the heart. Cardiac muscle exists only in the heart, it is involuntary muscle tissue, but it's fibres are striated and each cell has one nucleus, so in structure it resembles voluntary muscle. Now that statement alone would have 1st year Biology students questioning how can involuntary muscle be striated?

After all you say

Heart tissue is exceptional in that it is not a bicep or triceps nor 100% like any other 'commanded' muscle. That's why I dismissed you errant comments.

Now the difference between Voluntary Muscle or Skeletal as it is sometimes called or as we call it Striated Muscle is different from Involuntary Muscle or Smooth Muscle. So that is three simple basic muscle types each with very different make up and function. So a bicep is striated muscle fibre and striated muscle fibres are found in the cardiac muscle????? So it is not exceptional.
To even raise this point without any reference to what the actual nervous system functions are being used is just a small part of the story.

In fact muscles do communicate back to the brain, you may decide not to accept it, but in doing so you cannot proceed with any further ideas because you seek to complicate the simple idea that in order to know what your fingers are doing, and where they are in relation to each other,signals from the muscles must be sent back as fast as they are sent to them. This concept is a given......without it there is no further use in posting on the subject...the nervous system is part of this, not a separate function....unless you want it to be. Then you have to explain why this is so.

To even go into the forms of contraction that are available to a muscle, never mind the signals or combination of signals a nervous system will carry, requires an acceptance of basic principals.....which you dismiss, or seek to un-necessarily complicate for some reason.

Sorry for being hard on you but really your posts are showing you to be....well childish if somewhat naive on how the body works as well as the use of language.

 

[tjh]

Folks, I think we all got our points across ... its probably time to put this thread to rest before it gets too personal ... we all have our strengths and weaknesses ..

BTW, if I ever need advice on re-finishing a headstock, SurferJoe is for sure my go to guy, if you haven't seen his work, check it out ...

 

[Pacman]

We're done here.

By the way, everyone go look up the word misnomer.