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This study\u2019s purpose was to compare the acute effect of leg cycling DWU on sit-and-reach score to the effect of a preparatory regimen of foam rolling (FR) or percussive massage (PM).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec002\"><jats:title>Design<\/jats:title><jats:p>Single-blind, randomized, repeated-measures crossover study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec003\"><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Thirty-two asymptomatic, physically-active participants (male;<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>= 17) aged 20.9 \u00b1 1.5 years performed sit-and-reach tests before, immediately following and 10-, 20- and 30-minutes following eight minutes of each of the \u201cwarm-ups.\u201d Analyses of variance at each time point across conditions and for the percent change elicited by each intervention were conducted to determine significant differences (p &lt; 0.05).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec004\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Repeated-measures ANOVA revealed a significant difference between mean percent difference of sit-and-reach score for FR (8.8 \u00b1 0.5%) compared to DWU and PM (p = 0.046 and 0.048, respectively) while DWU (6.3 \u00b1 0.8%) and PM (6.8 \u00b1 0.5%) did not differ (p = 0.717). There were no differences between scores across interventions at any of the four time points.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"sec005\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>A bout of FR or PM resulted in an acute increase in a sit-and-reach score during a test performed immediately post and at 10-, 20- and 30-minutes post that was similar in magnitude to that which was present following leg cycling. 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