Like you, I abandoned pre-workout and post workout stretching without any ill effect.
I often stretch in between though, and have found it can be effective in relieving chronically tight muscles. For example, I had a 'permanently' tight hamstring that I fixed with 30 seconds of targeted stretching per day for about a month.
I use it for either imbalances, or for soreness from weight-lifting. However, I'm less certain of the usefulness of what I'm doing compared to my hamstring fix.
Those stretches were provided by a physiotherapist, and worked very well. My previous hamstring stretches had achieved nothing. The ones he gave me were generally dynamic stretches.
Excellent remark : like you, I keep some minimal in-between stretching (and I pay much more attention to drinking sweet cold water or soda during effort)
I do that ministretch when I "hear" or "feel" cracks that just should not occur in a given position or movement. It's as if my ankle was trying to sing the me the song if its people :-)
Lately I have noticed I could also do without this last remnant of stretching if the movements could be scheduled to alternate opposite muscle groups, ie make each routine put load on muscles which generally oppose (bi/tri ceps) and concentrate your training on a different set each day,
Exemples: investe in the biceps in your training today, it passively stretches the triceps, the do the triceps etc. so that at the end on your training everything is stretched even if you did not do stretching.
It's not "real" stretching - just the idea that curls should go hand-to-hand with skull-crushers.
I can't comment on stretching but I've found foam rolling (or other such myofascial release) to be the greatest thing ever for relieving tight muscles. Have you tried that?
To add to drexel, foam rollers or rumble rollers are great. I've also got an orbital buffer I use on myself that, as funny as it sounds, works amazingly well.
Like you, I abandoned pre-workout and post workout stretching without any ill effect.
I often stretch in between though, and have found it can be effective in relieving chronically tight muscles. For example, I had a 'permanently' tight hamstring that I fixed with 30 seconds of targeted stretching per day for about a month.
I use it for either imbalances, or for soreness from weight-lifting. However, I'm less certain of the usefulness of what I'm doing compared to my hamstring fix.
Those stretches were provided by a physiotherapist, and worked very well. My previous hamstring stretches had achieved nothing. The ones he gave me were generally dynamic stretches.