I'm amazed that the most popular article on the New York Times website is not about Obama. It's about stretching. I learned back when I was playing squash in college that "static stretching" was considered no good anymore by those in the sports medicine world. Things like touching your toes and pulling your leg behind your butt.
But most people do not know that. You should really only stretch after sports. Beforehand you need to warm up your muscles and tendons. This is a great article and has some examples of "dynamic stretching", the kind you should be doing. Silly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/playmagazine/112pewarm.html?em
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