Muscle Memory is it true or myth?

[ahs4n]

Hey, I was wondering if muscle memory is a myth or will muscles really grow back faster if you had once had them and lost them. Here is my story and can you tell me how muscle memory will affect me?

Here is the thing. Around a year and half ago when I was playing high school football, I was around 210lbs and able to bench 295. I eventually got down to 190 lbs during that spring and was still able to keep my maxes around the same like bench around 285, power cleans 225, squats 450. But I broke my arm during spring and didn't work out from all of April to August of last year 2006. When college came around last semester, I really didn't set a good routine for working out and only when when I could plus I ate pretty ****ty. I ended up being about 185 lbs during December of 2006.

Anyway, after the first semester of college, I have turned everything around decided to cut down to 10 percent for spring break and then clean bulk. Well, I achieved very close to my goals. I got down to 173 lbs and and at 11% body fat. I've got a decent amount of loose skin and I feel like I'm extremely weak now. I've been benching around 3 sets of 8 of 175. (I know I've been using bench as a scale for my strength but I'm also focused on bringing the rest of the compounds too) Now I have decided to go ahead and clean bulk till summer since I'm on this meal plan and bulking will be cheaper till I go home in June.

So, yeah the goal of the story is to ask will I be gaining mass and strength faster than the average person because I was once a lot bigger and stronger?

[Brutotal]

Muscle memory is true, also it takes less to maintain muscles than to build more of them.

[ahs4n]

bump any more opinions?

[itslocke]

Muscle memory is true, also it takes less to maintain muscles than to build more of them.

i agree.