The buzz with most trainers and gym bros these days is that static stretching is dead, and doing so before exercise will destroy gains and turn you into a weak girly man.

This is an about face from the days that many of us donned out short shorts for school PE, while the teacher told us we have to stretch before we do anything.

So has science discovered that the trusty PE teacher was wrong?

This is an area of massive confusion.

The "don’t stretch" message comes out of studies that showed us that static stretching prior to exercise, reduces strength. But Jeebus forbid that anyone would actually read the research that made this claim. But if you did, you would discover that the research uncovered that stretches that were held in excess of 60 seconds, resulted in a reduction in power and explosiveness when the exercise was performed immediately after the bout of stretching.

Hardly a real world application.

So if you are someone...

3 mistakes runners make when warming up that could reduce over 79% of injuries

79% is a weird number right. But research has shown that this is potentially the amount of runners that are injured every year as a result of..running. I always take these figures with a grain of salt, but if you run, and know others that run, you can be sure that one of you has been injured in the last year.

And it sucks.

There a lot of things that runners do wrong, and having trained some of the worlds best, I can tell you, that if I went down the road of listing all of the mistakes, you would still be reading this 2 weeks later.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Here we’ll look some simple ways you can integrate some fixes into your warm up, and get rid of the common mistakes being made prior to a run.

Firstly, why do we warm up at all?

When it comes to running there are 3 factors that we need to address in our warm up;

-Increase aerobic demand
-Prime the nervous system for work...