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The real impact of running in trainers - a new study

  29th January 2010
Cushioned running shoes change the way we run. A study, recently published in [the] Nature [journal], has shown that conditioned shod runners land very differently to experienced barefoot runners.

Most barefoot runners land on the fore-foot and use millions of years of evolutionary biological technology to absorb the impact. Shod runners, however, tend to heel-strike when they land generating a sharp, sudden spike of force.
 
"It's like someone hitting you on the heel with a hammer, about 1.5 to 3 times your body weight" Daniel Lieberman, Ph.D. Harvard University.

They found that minimal shoes actually protect the feet and lower limbs from some of the impact-related injuries now experienced by a high percentage of runners.
The report has contributed to the growing pile of evidence on the benefit of barefoot running and it has also gained some media attention.
 

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