Eli5 why does doing stretches prior to working out make you perform better and less likely to be injured?

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Eli5 why does doing stretches prior to working out make you perform better and less likely to be injured?

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I read a study awhile back that concluded people that always stretched and people that never stretched suffered about the same amount of injuries but people that sometimes stretched and sometimes didn’t suffered notably more injuries.