Running - The Healthy Fact
People who run barefoot learn to minimize impact shock, adopt a
different style of running form those people who run in shoes, according to a
research. This could help us to understand the impact related injuries suffered
by a high percentage of runners. Daniel lieberman and colleagues at Harvard the
university used kinematic and kinetic analysis to observe runners who were
either habitually bare fore or who generally wore shoes. Both groups were asked
to run wearing shoes and barefoot. High –speed camera footage was used to
observe exactly how their feet moved. They also volunteers to run over a force
plate, to analyse hip forces were transmitted during different kinds of
running.
There are three ways your feet can land when you are running – landing
on the heel first, when the heel and ball of the foot land simultaneously, when
the ball on the foot lands before the heel comes down. Sprinters and the
habitually bare fore seem to use mainly forefoot or mid-foot strike, while
endurance runners (and the majority of joggers) use rear-foot strike.
Landing on the forefoot first, helps to reduce the amount of the body’s
mass that needs to come to a full stop per step, and considering that most
runners will strike the ground around 60 time per kilometre, this is
significant for the likelihood of developing repetitive stress injuries humans send
their ancestors have probably been running ever since we adapted to using our
lower limbs for movement, and only in running shoes for the last 40 years or
so. Evidence from the structure of the modern human foot suggest that it is
adapted to get the best out of forefoot strike running, reducing the likelihood
of stress injury and offering a selective advantage. As the incidence of
running injuries remains significant despite advances in footwear technology,
it seems that even the best shoes may not be as good for you as no shoes set
all!

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