Mind of my Stroked Brain

It is fascinating to read and understand how muscles work. For all my life, (since I had not given it any thought earlier), I simply had assumed a muscle is 1 muscle. Ex, if we say bicep muscle, it was one muscle in my mind (I don't know why I imagined so, but so it was). The truth is very far from it . Each muscle is made up of hundreds of strands (maybe thousands). And the best part (I have practically understood, not backed by any medical stuff) - is that each strand is connected separately to the brain and not as one.  For mechanical enthusiasts, each strand works like a sort of rack and pinion arrangement, operated by a chemical reaction, triggered by the brain. Each strand has two separate connections to the brain - one to work the rack and pinion arrangement each way (to contract the muscle strand and the other to release it or relax the muscle strand). In short, that's how it achieves any movement. By selecting the set of muscle strands to activate (how many most probab

Everyday I hit the wall... Several times... Suppose I went to the gym. And the instructor asked me to use an equipment that was not in the gym. I would be wondering how to? That was how the first couple of months was. Everyone asking me to do something - and I had no clue what was being asked. My head had no idea what or how to do anything with the body. Every question was "out of syllabus"! It's the first stage for my muscles - the feeling of not having any. Then, after a long time, I went to the same gym. I was asked to do the dumbbells. Something I could see and hold. Except they were 50kgs I couldn't move it. Incredibly "Weak" was the feeling. That was the second stage - where I could feel it, know what to do - but just couldn't do it. After sometime, same gym. I was given 5kg dumbbells - and asked to lift it 100 times. I could lift 5kgs easily. But beyond a dozen times or so, just could not continue. I could hold it, I could lift it, but had no endu