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Have a cite? This article indeed concentrates on pre-exercise stretching, but I've heard similar things about post-exercise.
Definitely need studies now to prove post stretching provides benefit, otherwise it seems like just another Holiday Inn statement You could have talked to Olympians XX years ago about their pre-whatever-sport and heard them say stretching beforehand is a must-have
What's the Holiday Inn statement?
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What about stretching in between? Like you, I abandoned pre-workout and post workout stretching without any ill effect. I often stretch in between though, and have found it can be effective in relieving chronically tight muscles. For example, I had a 'permanently' tight hamstring that I fixed with 30 seconds of targeted stretching per day for about a month. I use it for either imbalances, or for soreness from weight-…
I can't comment on stretching but I've found foam rolling (or other such myofascial release) to be the greatest thing ever for relieving tight muscles. Have you tried that?
I've also used a theracane to great effect on my shoulders.
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It wouldn't be due to simple muscular tiredness. Studies on weight training show that local muscular fatigue can largely dissipate within minutes. I'd place my money on a CNS phenomenon.
Central nervous system? As a guess would you say such an effect might not be that bad beyond the immediate lowering of strength? Not a long term effect?
If you try PNF stretching -- where you push back against the stretch -- you'll be surprised how much further a stretch can go. And that's purely a nervous system phenomenon, some of it not reaching the CNS at all.