[ericmay]

That was my response as well, though I'd say that if you find that to be troublesome you can just ignore that from the book and just look at the rest of the, in my opinion from reading so far, good material. I was honestly very surprised to see that. I guess, I don't discount everything that someone says if I think they're wrong about a specific thing, and in sports science there seems to be a lot that is continuing to be discovered and argued about. It's a fluid field.

I will say throughout my life I have heard a lot of conflicting advice on stretching. "Don't stretch before working out", "Don't stretch after working out", etc. and I personally just do dedicated yoga sessions with deep/long poses for my stretching and that's it. I'm not sure "the science is settled" there so to speak, but my own personal results suggest that stretching is beneficial and helps prevent injury.