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NatureVideoChannel | January 27, 2010

Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman has ditched his trainers and started runni...

NatureVideoChannel | January 27, 2010

Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman has ditched his trainers and started running barefoot. His research shows that barefoot runners, who tend to land on their fore-foot, generate less impact shock than runners in sports shoes who land heel first. This makes barefoot running comfortable and could minimize running-related injuries. Read more here http://www.nature.com/news/2010/10012... and find the original research here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08723

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  • have you ever been running barefoot? ...on weeeeeeed? ;P

  • I can't really see how a heel strike in bare feet would be relevant here. It's those really long strides landing on your heels that make those big impacts. BTW nice porn music ;)

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  • @nikolasheartagram89 nothing better than vaporizing then going on a 5 mile barefoot jog

  • @vinsong so true

  • I Will run the same way now

  • Excellent information here! Just got a pair of Vibram Five Fingers so I can be "barefoot" anywhere. I have a question though, should I be utilizing a forefoot strike even when I'm just walking?

  • @regimantasx That is bs. Go to a ordinary workout with middle distance runners and you will see most of them heel strike. For a heelstriker to run forefoot he have to run at a speed that no middle distance runners do unless they have fast repititions on a track or a run that produces lactat. A middle distance runner training like that have a lot to learn.

    Todays shoes are made to fulfill the needs of fat americans.

  • @bonswanger hey could you make a video of you running like that?... i tried but couldnt do it, i need to see someone first

  • You running technique is awful. This theory is true for long distances, for middle distance runners it's not true. If you run fast your heel don't touch ground at all.

  • @JUNKGEE83 lol to the porn music

  • greatest device to know if your running style is wrong, does it hurt.

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