Excellent remark : like you, I keep some minimal in-between stretching (and I pay much more attention to drinking sweet cold water or soda during effort) I do

Excellent remark : like you, I keep some minimal in-between stretching (and I pay much more attention to drinking sweet cold water or soda during effort) I do that ministretch when I "hear" or "feel" cracks that just should not occur in a given position or movement. It's as if my ankle was trying to sing the me the song if its people :-) Lately I have noticed I could also do without this last remnant of stretching if the movements could be scheduled to alternate opposite muscle groups, ie make each routine put load on muscles which generally oppose (bi/tri ceps) and concentrate your training on a different set each day, Exemples: investe in the biceps in your training today, it passively stretches the triceps, the do the triceps etc. so that at the end on your training everything is stretched even if you did not do stretching. It's not "real" stretching - just the idea that curls should go hand-to-hand with skull-crushers.