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Honestly, I have never given much thought to whether stretching before bed helps or hurts me.... Now I kinda wonder.
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I think if you are going to static stretch then before bed is a good time. Of course there is the whole thing of never stretch a cold muscle. But although I HAVE injured myself doing a passive stretch (that's right folks it CAN happen) it was being downright stupid on my part that did it.
But I'm kind of in the same place. Certain parts I used to static stretch religously (like hams) I've found I'm better off not bothering with and other parts (like hip flexors) I need to keep up with some static stretching. I need to stretch my hip abductors religously. I need to stretch my upper traps and sternomastowhatever. I don't need to stretch my lower back (hard lesson learnt from many years of trying). Need to stretch itb, piriformis.
I've made a lot of recent changes and I've discoverd the main three keys for me to be hip, ankls, and thoracic spine mobility (religously).
Yet none of that other stuff do I need to do religously except maybe traps. Mostly my pre-workout mobiltiy stuff takes care of it and that has some static stretching built into it for certain parts, albeit for short times. And I have gotten into doing some supplemental mobility postworkout like squat drills and such.
That was not everything of course and I didn't mention foam rolling for pretty much everything, haha.
Shoulders of course is a whole nother thing and it has a life unto itself but I would mention that the pecs and lats and teres major (internal shoulder rotators) need to be stretched for most of us and I like to do that post-workout after any pressing or pulling.