No dude, it's nothing to be confused about. Stretch AFTER you lift. That's all. You can do dynamic stretches and mobility drills BEFORE you lift if you need to just don't do the classic "static" stretches that we all think of as stretching. Do that after.
LOL, you need to read the article and that'll clear it up. If you need to stretch there are before there are ways to do it and way to not. Static stretches slow you down, decrease your strength, mess up you coordination, etc. so on, if you do them before.
Dynamic stetches and to some extent isometric and PNF can be done before but I'd stick to dynamic.
But here's the problem. Stretching is NOT WARMING UP. Warming up is warming up. Two different things. Doing stretches before you lift will not protect you from injury. It's a myth. A proper warmup which can include some light fullbody cardio of some type, some basic loosening up mobility stuff and then your specific weight warmup....THAT will help protect you from injury. Static stretching will do the opposite.
Basically all the crapola we've ALL had drilled into your heads about the 'proper' stretching to do before you workout is bullshit.
If this isn't making sense to you yet let me know.
I know it sounds like heresy. But anybody who has any modern knowledge of this stuff left those notions about stretching before behind a while ago. Only the old stuck in a rut coach still believes it. Static stretching AFTER, however, has many, many, many benefits...but when I was talking about stretching before I thought you knew I meant after or I would have gone into all this, sorry.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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