Peluva athlete Brad Kearns explains in detail how your favorite elevated, cushioned shoes are "fine" to get you out the door and into some exercise...which is better than sitting on the couch! However, elevated cushioned shoes prompt technique errors and high risk of injury. Cushioned shoes promote an inefficient heel-striking, over-striding pattern. You experience a braking effect with each stride and incur seven times more impact trauma on each stride that a correct midfoot landing. This is why we have the incredibly embarrassing and disastrous rate of injury among regular runners. Yale University Medicine newsletter reports that 50 percent of runners are injured every year, and 25 percent of runners are injured at any given time. These are higher rates than the NFL!! (and not many joggers are getting tackled!)
“But my cushioned shoes feel comfortable, I don’t feel any impact trauma” This is because shoes destroy your proprioception-your awarness of the body moving through space. You can’t discern the impact trauma that is inappropriately dispersed throughout your lower extremities. What happens is you have a comfortable run on your cushioned shoes, and then you get plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, shit splints, or runner’s knee from the repeated micro-trauma of running inefficiently.
5 сен 2024
