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.
Still weird to me that we don’t have evidence in the other direction! It’s been 20 years
“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.