Shin Splints Pain From Forefoot Running? Try Increasing Your Cadence

Shin Splints Pain From Forefoot Running? Try Increasing Your Cadence

Even though forefoot running, especially when barefoot, has the tendency to naturally increase stride-rate (cadence), if you still have shin splints pain when running, you should try enforcing a higher step-rate beyond your preferred step-rate, even if it feels like you are doing more work, you’re actually not! Taking more steps per minute (between 170-200 steps per minute) appears to be the magic range that may perfectly prevent the muscles and tendons of the lower leg from being overloaded no matter how far you run. Read more here about a how increasing your run cadence has BIG protective effects on the shins.

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.
Bretta Riches