Great dogs springers. They're very popular round here. Great to see them working. Many years ago a cousin up north had a couple of springers for shooting. Him and his ex were having a massive barney in the kitchen and she said, you love those dogs more than you love me. He said, I love those pheasants more than I love you and I shoot those bastards! 10 people laughing their heads off in the next room told her her marriage was shot to hell as well!
Beautiful dogs There is a school of thought, and I have tbh I do subscribe to it, that the treat thing does result in what you describe. It's all about muscle memory or something and why dogs won't do things if there is no reward on occassion Check out Cesar Milan videos on YouTube. He is a little old school.
I was told by a sports physiotherapist that there's no such thing as muscle memory. Most people think it does though.
There was/is a dog trainer on ITV It's Me or The Dog and she's ****ing terrible at times I watched it once where she tried an air horn behind her back as a shock treatment for a ****ing big Huskey, I thought it was going to rip her throat out for a moment. Don't bother with these noise treatments, throwing things on the floor or mini air horns and if you go to someone for lessons who uses this then leave.
Muscle memory is (shockingly) that your muscles have memory. So for example if someone lifted weights for a few years and their muscles grew. Then packed it in and lost a lot of the muscle, if they returned to weight lifting they would be able to get back to their previous size/strength far quicker than they originally did or someone who was just starting out as the muscles "remembered" how big/strong they were before. There is probably other uses for it for other sports like your muscles automatically doing something when you are sprinting or similar but the only time I've heard it used is when it comes to lifting weights.
Maybe learned behaviour would be a better? I don't know about muscles in the way you describe but I know that with boxing, martial arts etc you do things "instinctively" after a while and it's described as muscle memory too Or was by the people I trained with Same with most sports I would say. In cricket, when I haven't played for a year or two, I know I do things and think wtf as it just comes back
I dont think so fan. It gets bandied around a lot. I think he means physiologically. The rest of us use it psychologically.
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