LinkNotes: Running Barefoot is Better

2010-01-28

Running Barefoot is Better

Clipped from: YouTube - Running shoe stress

Running shoe stress

Clipped from: The best running shoe may be nature's own: study | Reuters

The best running shoe may be nature's own: study

Runners who eschew shoes may be less likely to do serious injury to their feet, because they hold their feet differently, Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and colleagues found.

Writing in the journal Nature, they said runners who wear shoes tend to hit the ground with their heels first, whereas barefoot runners put the balls of the feet down first.

"People who don't wear shoes when they run have an astonishingly different strike," Lieberman said in a statement.

"By landing on the middle or front of the foot, barefoot runners have almost no impact collision, much less than most shod runners generate when they heel-strike," Lieberman added

Clipped from: Running Barefoot: Home

This website has been developed to provide an evidence-based resource for those interested in barefoot or minimal footwear running.

Clipped from: YouTube - The Barefoot Professor: by Nature Video

The Barefoot Professor: by Nature Video

Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman has ditched his trainers and started running barefoot. His research shows that barefoot runners, who tend to land on their fore-foot, generate less impact shock than runners in sports shoes who land heel first.

Clipped from: Running Barefoot: Biomechanics of Foot Strike

Biomechanical Differences Between Different Foot Strikes

The explanations below illustrate how and why a large collision is generated when heel striking and why such a small collision is generated when forefoot striking.