Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
You get bigger by overworking your muscles, then resting them with adequate protein intake. Some people get bigger easily, some do not. Nothing to do with fascia. Stretching before or during a workout is not recommended. Stretch after if you must. Stretching certainly will not make you bigger. If I'm lifting correctly, I get plenty of stretch during the exercises. When I ride long distances, I might stretch every 3 hours or so while I'm eating, or I might not. Depends on how I'm feeling.
Correct selection of exercise is a good way to maintain flexibility, but longer muscles are stronger muscles. Flexibility is wonderful, longer, more flexible muscles will absolutely not make you "Bigger" in any bodybuilding oriented sense of the word, and may actually reduce the appearance and definition that is what a lot of people are after from their resistance training exercises. I can't imagine that longer leg muscles and greater flexibility would be a fantastic benefit to cyclists, other than perhaps injury avoidance and general well being.