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.
“Injury prevention and other effects of stretching remain poorly investigated”
if the above really does appear in the article, this whole post should be removed imo.
We have 5 review studies. The material to review is mid, but all find essentially no benefit from stretching.
I hedge in the title, because I’d love someone to pull up with a controlled modern trial. Alas, no such luck.