NY Times DESTROYS shoe industry: "The idea that any running shoe can prevent you from getting hurt doesn’t hold water."

Grandchildren too are just a thing made up by middle-aged folks for the same reason.

Xero Shoes are definitely not a scam. I have had close to ten pairs of Xero products, and I have gotten close to 1,000 miles on each of them except one, and that is only because that one pair didn't fit. I'd say the majority of that mileage was run around seven flat mile pace, with three pairs solely dedicated to faster track work (sub-five mile stuff) that I've put 800 miles or so on each. If you don't like minimal footwear, that's fine, but don't say Xero's products are a scam. They're great and they hold up better than most mainstream shoe brands. Not as well as Luna Sandals hold up, but Xeros are most comfortable.

It turns out that walking barefoot results in the lowest joint loads on the knee. Minimalist shoes that attempt to simulate the barefoot experience, have been shown to reduce knee joint loading by 8% relative to their larger more cushiony cousins. – Barefoot walking loads the knee less than walking in shoes.
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I run in merrell trail gloves. I was in brooks launch, for one I have an extremely high arch, that resulted in mild plantar fasciitis, that went away 100% when using the minimalist shoe. I also suffered extremely mild knee injury, maybe runners knee, I was increasing mileage extremely slow like research supports, I say mild, because immediately when I was injured I would take time off for it to heal, switched to biking for cardio. This happened twice, the second time it was under fairly low mileage like 10 mile run, first time was my first marathon. Since switching to barefoot shoes I have not been reinjured, even when increasing mileage by somewhat absurd amounts. For instance most of my running time has been in barefoot shoes without injury.

I like to think Joe was speaking tongue in cheek and not literally. Of course shin splints are "real" (and I had them), but the sudden onset of shin splits is quite common among freshmen track athletes who want to get out of a workout; that part is true.

And when you work with kids, you do have to wonder where the "real injury" and "don't want to train through any little thing" line needs to be drawn. It is the job of a good coach to know the difference.

What about if you step on a bunch of glass? Also, anyone ever do a 20- miler in keds? NY Times doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Hate to sound like a shill, but I'd been trying to find a replacement for many years for my favorite shoe, the NB MR00, and recently bought the NB Propel and Xero HFS, and the Xero shoes have quickly taken over as my favorite even over the MR00. Absolutely shell shocked, especially with the seemingly nonexistent stack height. I've only been running in the shoes for about a month, but this week, I did 2 easy low HR 10 milers at around 7-7:30 pace (note I'm almost 50 with a marathon PR just over 3hrs almost 15 years ago - stopped racing at that time and run around 30mpw), and I had no irritation anywhere on my foot and no soreness either after or the next day. I'm still trying to figure out how or why! The naturally wide forefoot meant the side of my foot wasn't getting rubbed, and it wasn't getting scrunched up leading to burning right in the middle of my forefoot.

I really thought I was throwing money away getting this thing, especially since I hate returning things. I was also perplexed why a seemingly minimalist shoe weighed so much. Now I know it's because the outsole seems to be pretty dense, which I guess I prefer to squishy shoes.

As seen by the countries where people primarily run on dirt, they tend to have much less in injuries. So, my conclusion would be surface that you ruun on is more improtant than the shoes you run in.

I used to switch out of old "worn out" shoes after 500-600 miles like I was told to, and often corresponding to some new injury. When that became only every 5-6 weeks after I started running over 100 miles per week, I knew I had to try something else. I found that a few injury prevention exercises, especially eccentric calf drops, would prevent those injuries even better, and since then I've let myself get 2,000 to 3,000 miles per pair of shoes with no additional injuries. It's not the shoes. It's the bones and muscles in and over them.

Shin splints are real, all right, but they can be avoided and cured easily. They typically arise from new major stressors in training such as big increases in mileage that you have not reached before and lots of new, hard speedwork or fast downhills. They also emerge from lots of eccentric calf drops for achilles issues because an imbalance is created between calf and anterior tibialis. What I found on letsrun when I got shin splints from doing a lot of calf drops for achilles problems was that moving your foot up and down a bunch of times (especially standing on a step but even sitting down) like playing a bass drum pedal will quickly cure the shin splints before they get too bad.

Alternating running shoes is one of those methods that previous studies have shown increase injuries or at least do not decrease them, while buying more expensive shoes, if anything, tended to increase, rather than decrease, injuries.

Cochrane reviews are some of the highest quality summaries of medical evidence available. This one finds no evidence that any particular type of running shoe can reduce the risk of injury.

I think we can all agree that wearing shoes, specifically shoes that aren't those "five-finger" glove shoe atrocities, is better at preventing injuries than not wearing shoes.

This is just your anecdotal experience. Research has not been able to find a shred of evidence that minimalism reduces injuries.

Here’s a link describing trade offs, that also doesn’t seem too bs of intelligence.

fpphysicaltherapy.com

Zero Drop Shoes Lead to Injuries - Functional Performance Physical Therapy

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Zero drop and minimist shoes cause pain. Causes, prevention, and steps to avoid pain from running specialst, physical therapy Wynnewood, Ardmore, PA

Link:fpphysicaltherapy.com/zero-drop-shoes-...

I have always been open to the trade off view, that yes they lessen knee injuries, but may make prone other area to injury. To put simply I hadn’t injured another area of my body, would certainly fear switching back to traditional running shoes.

Michael Dukakis wore Keds when he ran in the 1951 Boston Marathon.

boston.com

That time a 17-year-old Mike Dukakis ran the Boston Marathon in Keds

Eric Levenson

“We ran 26.2 miles in low-top Keds sneakers and didn’t do too badly,’’ former governor Mike Dukakis said. “Three and a half hours.’’

Link:www.boston.com/news/local-news/2015/10...

The cushioning of running shoes (starting in the mid-70's) help prevent injury. Period. All other things being equal (same training volume and conditions) you are better with running shoes than not. Oh sure, there are uncommon examples of a certain model of a running shoe actually causing injuries, but another running shoe is the answer. Never no cushioning. The increased injury rates are the result of (1) mass participation, so more reporting, and (2) runners running more because they have cushy shoes.

Check that - always bad. Fo a great investigative paper, it's sad how they go on one theory and one "expert." Shock attenuation by shoes from 2017 on -has created a remarkable reduction in sustained injuries by RUNNERS training below 8:00 minute pace. And think hoe much they have improved since Benno Nigg's studies of 30-35 years ago.

Incredible. It's almost like our bodies have a limit to how much mechanical stress we can expose them to, regardless of whatever we put, or don't put, on our feet.

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