Yea but the loss of 10% strength could possibly lead to lifting heavy, stretching warms you up and makes the lift more comfortable and that could raise your confidence allowing you to lift more, a lot of strength lifting is a mental game as well.I find that a lot of the things that could potentially come up in this thread have become "common knowledge" due to a single (or a few) study that gets a bunch of headlines and subsequently parroted about. Another statement which may or may not prove out to be true but raises questions -
"Don't stretch before you lift because it will make you weaker. "
Iirc this pertains to static stretching but possibly dynamic too? I'm fairly certain I've seen a decent study that showed some particular type of strength loss around 10%.
So if true what a bout consideration of injury rate? My perception, however accurate, is that stretching, particularly dynamic stretching, lowers injury chances. So looking long term where's the balance? I'd trade a 10% loss of strength in any particular session away if it guaranteed a fair better amount of healthy time, I'd think that would gain me back that 10% over time.
PS - I hate stretching and don't do enough
I only stretch my legs, I always forget my upper body lol