Ben believes that stretching as a form of pre-exercise activity is useless. This was first offered on the April 2022 Patreon Bonus Episode and is occasionally referenced on the main podcast. Ben clarifies that he is opposed to static stretching, not dynamic.
Examples:
- Episode 1995: Ben, on Moose Skowron: "He's probably stretching too much. That's probably the issue."
- Episode 2003: "Yeah, we can agree to disagree on some aspects of stretching."
- Episode 2014: Meg, on Ben's sitting posture of having his knee up by his chin being a form of stretching: "You famously have the false idea that stretching is bad."
- Episode 2024: "I don't do static stretching, and there's a lot of sites that support me. Meg disregards all the evidence there."
- Episode 2109: Meg: "Mookie should stretch, Ben." Ben: "Maybe if it's not static stretching."
- Episode 2168: On relief pitchers: "Warm up a little with a little jog out there, not stretching. A little dynamic jog out to the mound, not static stretching."
- Episode 2201: On rehabbing from an injury, "you're not doing your usual stretching routine. Your dynamic stretching routine, not your static stretching routine, which no one in the right minds would do. What a waste."
- Episode 2330: Luke Weaver injured himself stretching. It is not clear whether it was static or dynamic stretching.