It won’t be the last name in the coffin of stretching for performance, but it might be one of the first. In 2010, researchers at Florida State shows the static stretching before time trial running decreased efficiency by 5 percent and distance by 3 percent. A new study of dynamic stretching by the same group of scientists is just out and it reveals that stretching had no significant impact in distance or efficiency. Stretches does increase flexibility, which is a good thing, but as performance edge? Nyet. Via Sweat Science.

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