Barefoot or Shod? A Question of Faith & Science: Science Says It's Safe and Economic, Practitioners Say "It's Making Me Faster & Helped Me Get Rid of Nagging Injuries!"
Minimal or no shoes, trendy, healthy and performance enhancing? Honestly, I am not even sure if it's a question of faith and science. I think for many people out there it is more a question of faith or science. Now some of you may think: "Well, of course, science says: It's bullocks. Faith says it's 'right' to run barefoot." Right? Wrong! No, I don't want to tell you what to do. I want to tell you about the scientific evidence in favor of barefoot running. Evidence as it is presented in "Barefoot running survey: Evidence from the field" a recent paper by David Hryvnial, Jay Dicharry and Robert Wilder that's about to be published in one of the upcoming issues of the Journal of Sport and Health Science that's based on data from more than 500 runners (Hryvniak. 2014). Not everyone will do his HIIT sprints barefoot, I think, but maybe minimally shod? Never Train To Burn Calories! Tabata = 14.2kcal /min ≠ Fat Loss 30s I...