Posts Tagged ‘barefoot running’
Running form and the Shoe Industry: where do we go from here?
Running form and shoes are the biggest topics in the running industry right now. I’ve written about each substantially and while I enjoy the topic, I sometimes get tired of focusing so much time on them. I try and balance the topics out with that of my real love, how to train, but can’t quite…
Read MoreWin a Free pair of shoes! Peaking, and running form podcast
Lots of exciting developments going on lately. We’ve got free shoes to give away, a new article on Peaking I wrote for Running Times, and a great podcast on Running Form and shoes I participated in last night. First off, thanks to Brooks shoes, we’re having our first real give away on the site. They’ve…
Read MoreHow to go from heel striking/orthotics wearing to forefoot strike/ barefoot running
Should you train barefoot? This concluding post on the barefoot vs. shoe debate will look at some of the practical applications to all the research that we’ve discussed. In part 1, I questioned whether cushioning or pronation even mattered. In part 2, I looked at the new study by Lieberman on barefoot running and footstrike,…
Read MoreLooking at Running Form frame by frame: Vibrams vs. Shoes
Shoe’s vs. Vibrams: I put it to the test. Below you’ll see variations in running form in the same runner, on the same day, at the same pace. Looking at footstrike in Shoes vs. Vibram’s. On the left is me in shoes, and on the right is me in Vibrams. Notice any differences? Conclusions: It’s…
Read MoreNew studies on footstrike. Do faster runners heel strike?
Perhaps the most interesting finding in Lieberman’s work is that it may not be so much the barefoot vs. shod but the footstrike that is the important part. Brefoot running allows for the footstrike to happen properly, so they are interconnected. Let’s leave behind injury prevention for a bit here and focus on speed. Is…
Read MoreTHE first big study on barefoot running in Nature : Death to Heel striking
The barefoot debate is about to get a little bit hotter. A new study to be released tommorow by Lieberman in Nature takes an evolutionary look at barefoot running. In the study, they compared barefoot and shoe running on a whole variety of factors in both regular shoe wearers, regular barefoot runners, and even Kenyans!…
Read MoreWhy Running shoes do not work: Looking at Pronation, Cushioning, Motion Control and Barefoot running.
The running shoe model needs to be fixed. Pronation, Motion Control, Cushioning, and Stability shoes? Get rid of them all. It’s not just barefoot running and minimalism versus running shoes, the either/or situation many portray it to be. It’s much deeper than that. It’s not even that running shoe companies are evil and out to…
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