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Post edited 6:26 am – October 12, 2009 by admin

From the blog of USA Volleyball's John Kessel:

The vast majority of the teams I watch over the years, enter the gym, talk to the players, then get them running in various ways, then stretching.  Don't these players already know how to run, but not play volleyball as well? Has nobody seen the extensive Center for Disease Control study showing that in over 300 stretching programs viewed, none reduced injuries?  Was it that long ago that these players would sit at a desk for hours, practically immobile, and then hear the recess bell ring, and fly out to 15 minutes of all out activity, and come back in with maybe a scraped knee? None of them ran and stretched in advance of their chosen recess activity, they just went straight to playing.