Is Pre-Exercise Stretching as Harmful to Performance as Claimed? Long Static Holds Cost a Few Per Cent; Short Stretches Within a Dynamic Warm-Up Have Little Measurable Effect
Oct 25
4 min read
Lifters have long been told that static stretching before training saps strength and power. Some coaches banned it from warm-ups altogether. The research behind that advice is real, but much of it tested performance within minutes of stretching, with no other warm-up activity. Three syntheses show how much of the warning survives in a normal warm-up.
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