Too bad that reviews of the scientific literature on stretching have deemed stretching all but useless for recovery. A 2011 Cochrane review analyzed twelve studies of stretching—one of them a field study that involved more than 2,000 participants—and concluded that “the evidence from randomised studies suggests that muscle stretching, whether conducted before, after, or before and after exercise, does not produce clinically important reductions in delayed-onset muscle soreness in healthy adults.” A more recent review concluded that static stretching might reduce running economy (a measure of
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