Your Muscles Do Remember... But Not The Way You Think

Did you know that if you start working out, your body will kind of "remember" what it s like to be strong, even after you take some time off? How are your muscles able to do that? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2010-11-source-long-term-motor-memory.html https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/musclesgrowLK.html https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.00019.2003 https://opentextbc.ca/anatomyandphysiology/chapter/10-9-development-and-regeneration-of-muscle-tissue/ https://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/219/2/235.full.pdf https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003188.htm https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.01887/full https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190125084106.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0047637482901051?via%3Dihub https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29282553