Originally Posted by Trakhak

I probably tried stretching two or three times at most sometime in my twenties. Then I thought, what's the point, and stopped.

So at 74, it's been about 50 years since I stretched those few times. Other than stretching the way one does sometimes while yawning, of course.

The idea that being able to touch my toes while standing is important in some way is bizarre to me. Unless I'm wrong and our legs lengthened as we evolved expressly to provide precisely the necessary benchmark for stretching.
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Maybe I'm lucky. Would like to hear from others who've avoided stretching because they never saw the point of it and lived to tell the tale.