Not all cushy running shoes are safe and reliable. Research has found that running shoes with more padding under the heel than the front of the shoe caused runners to land significantly harder on their heels, while causing reckless motions of the foot.
One of the best distance running coaches in history, Alberto Salazar, emphasizes with verifiable facts that forefoot striking is the correct foot strike, and heel striking is not.
In running, the main cause of knee injury is heel striking because it alters your entire stride to the extent where more collisional and compressive impacts pry into the knee, and was also found to increase the degenerative process of the joint, regardless of the amount of under-heel cushioning in a shoe! This is not the case in forefoot running, which has gained universal acclaim as the cure for chronic knee injury.
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