Saturdays with Hedy Lamarr #8

Muscle Memory: Fact or Fiction?

A popular term that is tossed around among sportscasters and fitness professionals is "muscle memory." The basic premises behind muscle memory is the more you practice a skill, the better you become at it because the muscle "remembers" what to do. There is no doubt that proper practice yields improvement in performance, strength, coordination, etc. However, these changes are not due to muscle memory. There is no memory structure within the muscle itself, therefore, the muscle cannot remember or forget to do things. Every single muscle fiber is connected to the nervous system by the way of a motor unit. In order for a muscle to fire or contract, a signal must be sent to the fibers from the nervous system. The "memory" part is in the nervous system, and more specifically, in the brain. If you remember the first time you attempted to hit a baseball, shoot a basketball, ride a bike, etc., you were probably clumsy, uncoordinated, and had little success. Over time, you probably saw improvement. When we perform a skill we have little to no experience with, the nervous system does not know which muscles to recruit (activate), how many muscles to recruit, how frequently to recruit the muscles, and when to turn the muscles off. As we practice the skill, the nervous system begins to learn and remember, and recruits only the muscles needed to perform the skill, and at the right frequency and intensity. The nervous system also learns to turn off muscles that are not needed to perform the skill and would hinder performance. So, the theory of muscle memory is actually a complex process that involves both the nervous system and the muscular system. But, there is no memory structure within muscle, so the term muscle memory is fiction.

Film Scene I Love - The Comedians of Comedy

Zach Galifianakis talks about physical comedy from the film The Comedians of Comedy

Among the Multitude

Today is Walt Whitman's Birthday.

Among the Multitudes by Walt Whitman

Among the men and women the multitude,
I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
Some are baffled, but that one is not--that one knows me.
Ah lover and perfect equal,
I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.

Modern and Glamorous-Chandelier from Barbara Cosgrove

We are loving this new chandelier from Barbara Cosgrove. It's so chic, don't you think?

The chandelier is priced at $925 including shipping.
The shades can also be replaced with parchment shades. The best thing is, it can be painted with any Benjamin Moore paint color. How clever!
You can find this chandelier in our Barbara Cosgrove Lamps section.

Red and Pink Bedding

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I thought I had just found the perfect set of red and pink bedding for a teenage girl's bedroom that I'm decorating. Take a good look at the pictures...do you see a red and pink comforter set? Well, at first glance I surely did only to take a second look and realize that the actual comforter and shams are white, pink and green. There may be a tiny touch of red in the center of the flowers that you can't see very well, but it may be hot pink.

The point is that the red upholstered headboard of the bed, the red dust ruffle and that funky looking wooly mirror that's hung over the head of the bed fooled me into thinking that I had found THE pink and red bedding set that would solve all my problems.

I wonder if I can convince the young lady to accept this red and pink bedding set and more importantly, convince her mom to pay for a padded red headboard.
The girl's taste in bedroom colors ranges in the warm (ya think?) side of the color wheel thus the request for a hot pink and red room design. In my opinion, the field of white with cool green stems on the flowers are what will make the girls bedding set work.

Saturdays with Hedy Lamarr #7