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.
Plantar fasciitis can be added to the list of injuries caused by heel strike running because the higher-than-normal amounts of impact on the heel at touchdown was found to cause plantar fascia degeneration and fragmentation as well as reduced thickness and atrophy of the fascia. This is why heel strike running causes plantar fasciitis to turn into a chronic condition as compared with forefoot running.
Heel strike running causes chronic injury because of the heel-to-toe rollover action of the foot that occurs after heel strike was found to produce the highest jolt, jarring, jerky, braking and loading forces that cannot be reducible by cushioned running shoes, but with forefoot running only.
Here’s an easy barefoot running training guide that will help correct your heel strike, and instead, improves all aspects of forefoot running stride, while strengthening your feet, making them more capable of more miles.
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