Andy Gapin

Runners! Stretching doesn’t really help!:

I’ve been saying this for a long time now. I’ve read about stretching actually not providing any benefit before and it seems in line with my personal experiences as well. I don’t stretch before running except for very rare occasions and my legs are just fine. I do a few minutes of walking before I start and after I’m finished running, but that’s about it. 

I do stretch before I play soccer though and 90% of the time when my legs are sore after physical activity, it’s from soccer. To be fair, soccer is a lot different. There’s a lot of full speed sprinting and variable speed running with standing and walking mixed in the middle all over the place. But the fact still is, the activity I stretch before tends to be the one producing any soreness I may have. I don’t know why I stretch before it when I don’t for anything else though. Maybe it’s time to stop.

I signed up for Tumblr last week. I never used it before because I didn’t really see the point of having something that feel between this site and Twitter, but we’ll see. I don’t know that I’ll use it too much…or maybe I’ll use it a lot. Maybe I’ll use it instead of Twitter more. I don’t know!

At any rate, I set it up so that my Tumblr posts should cross post here. I haven’t entirely tested it though so I’m hoping it works.