About Muscle Memory

Suji [] Kioku [記憶] [筋記憶]

Kin'niku [筋肉] Kioku [記憶] [筋肉記憶]


the ability to reproduce a particular movement without conscious thought, acquired as a result of frequent repetition of that movement.


the ability to repeat a specific muscular movement with improved efficiency and accuracy that is acquired through practice and repetition.


A misnomer at best and pure bunk at worst while not really representing how learning methods to a point it’s triggered without using conscious thinking, slow process in comparison, processes such as methods for self defense.


“Those comeback skills actually stem from a motor learning process. In other words, they are “motor memory.” When you learn how to perform these movements well and can do them automatically without conscious thought, that information becomes encoded in the brain.” - David Behm, a research professor in the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada.


In truth, all of it involves repetitive effort tied with brain effort, one being yin while the other being yang - in short, the body and brain connection. The brain encoded and when triggered results in a specific movement of muscle, tendons, and cartilage, etc.


Without an encoded “memory” repeated so “thinking” of the method is suppressed cannot happen with muscle activity alone. Brain/body with the brain function acting as primary is the only method to make them “automatic” in nature.


There is a muscle memory but it deals exclusively with muscle growth and regrowth, not about performing methods, etc.


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