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.
Unfortunately this kind of science really sucks because there are just so many variables to account for, and it’s impossible to do a blind study.
This is a topic where there’s basically guaranteed to be conflicting results in different trials.
yeah unless they examine the muscles and ligaments pre and post its going to be kinda pants.