If the foot wrestles too much with the ground, it will slow you down and injure you, This is what happens in heel strike running. After heel strike, the foot rolls heel-to-toe whereby this movement path causes the foot to make a longer line of travel on the ground, while the bodyweight also passes over heel-to-toe. A proven natural accompaniment to this is hyper-pronation where the foot unnecessarily grapples too much with the ground, which can be most stressful on the foot, while stressing multiple sites on the leg. This is not evident in forefoot running. Read more here about other ways heel strike running will slow you down vs forefoot running.
Bretta Riches
"I believe the forefoot strike is the engine of endurance running..."
BSc Neurobiology; MSc Biomechanics candidate, ultra minimalist runner & founder of RunForefoot. I was a heel striker, always injured. I was inspired by the great Tirunesh Dibaba to try forefoot running. Now, I'm injury free. This is why I launched Run Forefoot, to advocate the health & performance benefits of forefoot running and to raise awareness on the dangers of heel striking, because the world needs to know.
BSc Neurobiology; MSc Biomechanics candidate, ultra minimalist runner & founder of RunForefoot. I was a heel striker, always injured. I was inspired by the great Tirunesh Dibaba to try forefoot running. Now, I'm injury free. This is why I launched Run Forefoot, to advocate the health & performance benefits of forefoot running and to raise awareness on the dangers of heel striking, because the world needs to know.
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