Originally Posted by jock
Here's something I only found out a coupla weeks back. During the foetal? stages of development we don't have any defined muscles, and what ends up being calves, hammies, back muscles, neck muscles, etc starts out as a single band that runs from the front of your head, down your back, and under your feet. So you can get sore hammies from bad shoes, or tension in your forehead! How weird is nature?
Try doing pilates and you find out all sorts of weird connections....
I never bought into the whole warmup stretching thing when weightlifting...Check out the stretching & warm ups paper on
http://www.mikementzer.com/
For cycling, it appears a different proposition.