I figure I'd start a new thread for this so as not to further hijack Nikuman's running thread.
I new article was just published in Nature by the guy whose research I've been heavily relying on in previous threads on this topic. The abstract is here.
For those without institutional subscriptions to scientific journals or who don't feel like reading science jargon, it is summarized in a very nice 6-minute video that I recommend highly to all runners or anyone else interested in the topic:
[YOUTUBE]7jrnj-7YKZE[/YOUTUBE]
To me, this stuff is really intuitive. Of course it's a bad idea to wear shoes that deaden the nerves in our feet. Our feet our extremely sensitive because it's supposed to hurt when you run with bad form (i.e. when you heel-strike). We evolved our amazing long-distance running ability over a very long period of time (I lean more toward 1.5 than 2 million, but no matter), only so we could put giant shoes on and destroy our built-in form-adjusting mechanism? I blame Nike for the injury epidemic among runners in the last two or three decades.
I new article was just published in Nature by the guy whose research I've been heavily relying on in previous threads on this topic. The abstract is here.
For those without institutional subscriptions to scientific journals or who don't feel like reading science jargon, it is summarized in a very nice 6-minute video that I recommend highly to all runners or anyone else interested in the topic:
[YOUTUBE]7jrnj-7YKZE[/YOUTUBE]
To me, this stuff is really intuitive. Of course it's a bad idea to wear shoes that deaden the nerves in our feet. Our feet our extremely sensitive because it's supposed to hurt when you run with bad form (i.e. when you heel-strike). We evolved our amazing long-distance running ability over a very long period of time (I lean more toward 1.5 than 2 million, but no matter), only so we could put giant shoes on and destroy our built-in form-adjusting mechanism? I blame Nike for the injury epidemic among runners in the last two or three decades.
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