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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    Many sports coaches have said to me that stretching cold muscles worsens your performance and that you should stretch AFTER the exercise to aid recovery