Stretching

Static stretching beforehand is a meme, you wanna do dynamic stretching as part of warm up to help warm up the joints and activate muscle fibres. It's good practice to minimise injuries.

You can do static stretches after workout or before bed that night which can help with recovery but it's not a necessity.

>>42252634

A meme means it's bad?

I do 5min of stretching before every workout. All kinds of stretches included, but nothing I hold longer than three breaths

Stretching is not a meme, I repeat, stretching is not a meme

I got sent to physical therapy because the appearance of knee pain was making it difficult to climb the 100 ft of stairs I need to go up and down on a daily basis to do my job. The doctors pretty much flat out told me that my muscles were about as flexible as bricks, and asked if I was stretching. Then yelled at me for not stretching.

Joint mobility exercises in the morning, dynamic stretches before workout, warmup into each actual exercise, cool down stretches after. Been doing this for a while now and no more knee pain.

I never stretch.

>>42252664
Doesn't mean bad - just means false.

Static stretches do not help you prepare to lift safely or effectively. You warm up with dynamic movements like dynamic stretching and warm up sets. There's this misinformation spread from school physical education level and normie dyel fitness classes that you should warm up with static stretches - that is a meme.

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Stretching is not a meme. I do 3 -5 min of static stretching and 2 or 3 min of dynamic/active stretching before each workout.

Gotta get that mobility somehow, OP. Do stretches after you've done with your workout.

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