Warm-up: To Stretch or Not to Stretch?

Not that I know of. My main area was geared toward the youth sport coach. What was tough to explain was issues such as heat and hydration, massage etc, but couldn’t be touched upon in my paper(s) because we didn’t test it.

For example, in one paper draft, I wrote how although static stretching may cause an immediate decrease in performance, stretching it self may lead to increases in sprint speed over the long term. However, I couldn’t find any “credible” source to use and had to omit this section of the paper. (only source I could find was something by Charlie in one of the products).

My experience in this process was unless the point’s been shown before, you will be criticized and often not accepted for publication if you break the research status quo.