The Barefoot Runners

Over the years, there has existed a lot of trends from the running community. Most appear and vanish. The present hot theme is barefoot running compared to working out with running sneakers. The barefoot running community are a really small fringe, yet an incredibly noisy community giving the impression that they’re a developing trend. These people think of jogging shoes to be evil and the actual root cause of most athletic injuries, though they’re able to produce no research to support the particular statement. In addition they make various other statements that those which train barefoot are more economical runners. This as well just isn’t sustained by the data which only shows that barefoot running is different to jogging in sneakers.

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30 March 2010 | Health and Fitness

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