muscle memories

Noun

muscle memory (countable and uncountable, plural muscle memories)

1. The ability to reproduce a particular movement using subconscious neuromuscular control which is acquired as a result of the physiological adaptation of the body to repetition of the movement.
   • For just as there is a memory of sensory impressions, of the sights we have seen and the sounds we have heard, so is there a memory of motor acts, of the movements we have performed, and of the mode in which we have accomplished them. We have a sense memory and a muscle memory, and ideally revived...1883, J[ames] Crichton[-]Browne, “Education and the Nervous System”, in Malcolm [Alexander] Morris, editor, The Book of Health, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 326
2. The ability to regain lost muscle size and strength much faster than initially building it, due to retained muscle nuclei.