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I hope for fzahnd there is a translation in english of his article because the majority of readers will have no clue about german language. I will check it out though.In general the articles mentioned show there is no point of stretching and it is just a mamoth in the cubboard
I am wondering though as ramleo pointed out there is no evidence that stretching works is why he suggested gentle stretching. It is funny though that the view on stretching has changed dramatically. Several researches have shown that stretching has very little or no permanent effect on e.g. muscle length, muscle soreness.Ramleo points out the benefits of a warming up which includes stretching. I assume it could well be partly (mostly?) mental. I personally felt great benefit from stretching and warming up as well as getting myself ready for the miles to come by concentration on the subject like tightening my shoes, have a jog and alike before setting of. In accordance to my observation: some strange form of research showed that one might improve muscle strength by 10% just by watching sports so even a couch potato can train!
But to be honoust my heart rate goes up by watching e.g. a marathon.
What I try to point out that the benefits from stretching might not be purely physical but that a large part of it might well be mental which makes a proper research into the subject problematic: to many variables. So one could assume that just doing something will trigger the brain to a response to repair. And no stretching is in that case required, just focussing.
Cheers!
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