In running, foot strike pattern matters immensely because it has a big effect on other areas of your stride in ways that can either make or literally break you. For instance, forefoot running improves the mechanical chain of events that accounts for sustainably easing strain off the IT Band. Case in point, forefoot running effectively prevents over-striding by improving knee angle at landing, which shortens stride length, while widening stance width. These are important assets in protecting the IT Band, and re-affirms that bad mechanics get phased out with forefoot running. Read more here about all the other injuries caused by heel strike running that forefoot running prevents.
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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