Cycling-Related Strength & Conditioning

Yeah maybe that's partly what I was getting at in my last post i.e. there's a high cost (pain) to (perceived) benefit ratio with stretching often.

It also helps if you have a goal/function in mind. I want to avoid discomfort in my lower back and glutes during/after intense efforts in the drops or on tribars. Having worked more consistently on stretching my hips, glutes, hamstrings, I'm already seeing very encouraging results.

And perhaps the knowledge that cycling as an activity promotes the shortening of all these muscle groups - which play a large part in your life off the bike too - should be motivation enough to get into the stretching habit...?

Hope that doesn't sound patronising. Lord knows I've been an ambivalent stretcher for much of my life.