Originally Posted by livedarklions

This subject always gets so heated among some of the people of my advanced age in part because us not-stretchy people had to suffer through seeming endless routines of painful cold muscle stretching at the hands of teachers and coaches who warned of dire events if we did not, and came to find out later we weren't actually doing ourselves any good with this mild form of torture.

It's such a subjective topic--some people feel miserable if they don't do it, some of us feel miserable when we do. Ultimately, we might as well be arguing about what is the best shoe size.