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.

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    exactly, stretching is to prepare muscles that you are going to be stretching abnormally during whatever exercise you are doing

    if you look at rugby players these days they sit on a exercise bike to keep the muscles warmed up. gymnasts will be doing very different warm up