"muscle memory" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "I said that one can move a muscle only if one has an inherent muscle memory which has been stored in the brain at some previous time.",
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          "text": "My shadow / Change is coming / Now is my time / Listen to my muscle memory / Contemplate what I've been clinging to / Forty six and two ahead of me",
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          "text": "Your body schema is also informed by a library of what many people call \"muscle memories,\" although the term is rather inaccurate. These memories actually reside in the brain's motor maps, not down in the muscles proper, as the term would seem to suggest. These muscle memories give you an intuitive understanding about how your body is able to move and what it is capable of. This implicit knowledge includes things like how far you can bend over, what parts of your back you can reach with your hands, and what objects on the dinner table are within arm's reach without leaning.",
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          "text": "The key is muscle memory and automating one's responses. By constant repetition, soldiers learn exactly how their kit is organized and laid out, how to quickly tie their boots in the morning, where and how magazines are stored in the tactical (tac) vest, how to access each pouch on their kit without looking at it. All of these movements become mostly unconscious.",
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          "text": "Most people easily understand an example of what is called muscle memory as it applies to sports. If we didn't have muscle memory, athletes would have to relearn how to shoot a basket, hit a baseball, or throw a football each time they played a game. Muscles have memories and, with practice, the actions they perform can be done without thought.",
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          "text": "Your body schema is also informed by a library of what many people call \"muscle memories,\" although the term is rather inaccurate. These memories actually reside in the brain's motor maps, not down in the muscles proper, as the term would seem to suggest. These muscle memories give you an intuitive understanding about how your body is able to move and what it is capable of. This implicit knowledge includes things like how far you can bend over, what parts of your back you can reach with your hands, and what objects on the dinner table are within arm's reach without leaning.",
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          "ref": "2011, Ryan Flavelle, The Patrol: Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan, Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 20:",
          "text": "The key is muscle memory and automating one's responses. By constant repetition, soldiers learn exactly how their kit is organized and laid out, how to quickly tie their boots in the morning, where and how magazines are stored in the tactical (tac) vest, how to access each pouch on their kit without looking at it. All of these movements become mostly unconscious.",
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          "ref": "2014 January 22, Cathy Covell, “Tissue Memory and Its Effect on Healing”, in Feeling Your Way Through, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 96:",
          "text": "Most people easily understand an example of what is called muscle memory as it applies to sports. If we didn't have muscle memory, athletes would have to relearn how to shoot a basket, hit a baseball, or throw a football each time they played a game. Muscles have memories and, with practice, the actions they perform can be done without thought.",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "word": "ذاكرة عضلية"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jīròu jìyì",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "word": "肌肉記憶 /肌肉记忆"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "spiergeheugen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "word": "lihasmuisti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mémoire musculaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Muskelgedächtnis"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "mānspeśīya smŕti",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "मांसपेशीय स्मृति"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "geunyuk gieok",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "word": "근육 기억"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "word": "حافظه عضله"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "word": "حافظه عضلانی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pamięć ciała"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pamięć mięśniowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pamięć ruchowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memória muscular"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "myšečnaja pamjatʹ",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "мышечная память"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memoria muscular"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "muskelminne"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of a specific physical activity, resulting in increased subconscious neuromuscular control when performing that activity again",
      "word": "kas hafızası"
    }
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