It looks very plausible that stretching before you exercise doesn’t do much for you. Multiple older surveys suggested this.
Annoyingly, the studies linked in the previous paragraph are 2 decades old, and somehow I can’t find a large, well controlled, trial.
Ehhhh, I read a bit of the article. My takeaway is that (1) static stretching, (2) as part of a warmup, (3) for sports that don’t require a ton of range of motion may not be super helpful.
Quoting the paper, “Injury prevention and other effects of stretching remain poorly investigated”
Yeah lol if i dont stretch before climbing im literally gonna be injured 5 minutes later.
“Injury prevention and other effects of stretching remain poorly investigated”
if the above really does appear in the article, this whole post should be removed imo.
We have 5 review studies. The material to review is mid, but all find essentially no benefit from stretching.
I hedge in the title, because I’d love someone to pull up with a controlled modern trial. Alas, no such luck.
Still weird to me that we don’t have evidence in the other direction! It’s been 20 years