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Even if your muscles don't get stronger or fitter after working out again, your body might still remember the old workout at a molecular level—like a biological bookmark keeping track of past exercise.

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Even when people didn’t get any stronger or fitter from doing HIIT a second time, their muscles still kept molecular 'memories' of the first workout—like a biological bookmark—showing that the body remembers the exercise at a DNA level, even if it doesn’t show it in performance.

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