Stretching before weight lifting reduces your strength.

Stretching in the warm-up was been shown to decrease muscular performance. But it is not know how much stretching effects your performance and strength.

A new study provides a little insight. There was a significant difference in the change in strength between the control and stretching groups that was not significantly different across gender.

Strengths in the control group were consistent with a linear trend. Meaning each next try the strength was a little lower.

Strengths in the stretching group declined in a logarithmic fashion to 88.8% with 100 seconds of stretching.

Statistically significant differences in strength between the two groups appeared after 40 s of stretching.

“Meaningful decreases in isometric grip strength following static stretching are likely to appear in young adults following 20-40 s of static stretching.

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