Factors that affect performance capacity in running such as foot strike.
Barefoot running shoes are more than good for you because they deliver a stronger sense of the ground which was found to prompt mechanical corrections that are more energy efficient. Not only that, the unrestricted fit and heightened ground-feedback is the best way to sustainably strengthen the arch and intrinsic muscles deep within the foot.
One way heel striking when running is less efficient than forefoot running is that it fatigues the legs faster. This is because landing heel-first when running puts more taxing mechnanical and physical stress on the muscles, soft tissues, joints and bones as compared with forefoot running.
Cushioned running shoes are just as bad for kids as they are for adults as these shoes were found to be detrimental to young runners still developing a running style. The study found that cushioned running shoes caused caused young runners to adopt mechanical risk factors, like heel striking, that are responsible for most common running-related injuries as compared with young runners who ran barefoot or in zero drop running shoes.
Barefoot running is safe, and is actually safer than the most cushiest running shoe! There’s converging evidence from multiple lines of research showing that running barefoot produces the most optimal coordination of safer, more efficient mechanical outputs that do more to protect you from injury than in running thick cushioned running shoes.
Uncovering another mechanical property of forefoot running that allows it to save more energy than heel strike running.
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