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One of the things that also came through loud and clear is that barefoot running is our default. It is how we evolved, and modern shoes are a change from that default. Thus, the burden of proof should be to prove that we are better off running in big, bulky shoes. People often seem to think that the notion that we should run in a way that emulates the barefoot gait is radical (whether actually barefoot or in minimal shoes), but in reality it’s what our species has done for nearly 2 million years prior to about 1970. Modern shoes have changed that, and the Nike Air Max 90 Dam consequences of this change are what we are all trying to figure out. Is barefoot-style better? Maybe, we really don’t know yet, but science regarding impact, joint torques, etc. seem to suggest that a barefoot-style gait moves things in a Nike Air Max 90 Mujer positive direction. Should you throw away your shoes? If you are running well and have no injury history, there may be no reason to. However, if you have been saddled with injuries, a change to a minimalist shoe and some form work might be of benefit. Blaise and Sean both prescribe racing flats and advocate gait retraining in their clinical practice – I will talk about their form approach in a subsequent post. Due to anecdotal reports from readers, as well as experience with my own wife (a story for another day), I am a believer in their approach. One key point to make here though, is that any www.domoreso.fr change that is made must be:Your body is most likely adapted to wearing big, bulky shoes. Rushing into form change or a minimalist shoe too quickly can be a recipe for disaster. Change needs to be approached as a long term process, and the Nike Air Max 90 Femme body will need time to adapt. Again, more on their approach in a future post.I spent this past weekend at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WV, a small town tucked along the Potomac River near the border with Maryland. Though I have spent time in West Virginia in the past, I’d never been to Shepherdstown, and thus knew very little about it. My reason for traveling to this little, out-of-the-way village was that my friend Mark Cucuzzella had invited me to attend a three day course on the prevention and treatment of running injuries. West Virginia, one of the most obese Nike Air Max 90 Hombre states in the USA, seems like an unlikely location for such a course, but I write this with the belief that Shepherdstown might just be an epicenter of the natural running movement. I’m not joking.Why do I say this? Well, last Friday evening Nike Air Max 270 Mens Mark organized a public panel discussion on natural running at a local hotel called the Bavarian Inn. The panelists were many and varied, and I was thankful for the opportunity to participate, but I was a bit curious about how many people might show up to such an event in rural West Virginia. Were the panelists going to outnumber the audience??? Hardly.I actually www.matthieugranier.fr arrived at the Inn a bit late and entered the conference room just as the event was getting under way (we had gone for a group run, so a valid excuse!). To my surprise, the event was packed (see photo below of a portion of the Nike Air Max Classic BW Dam crowd). Standing room only. A crowd of 150+ people had come, and another 50 or so had to be turned away due to the lack of space in the facility. I couldn’t believe it – here we were in a state renowned for it’s inactivity, and I had to weave my way through a crowd of people who were squeezing into a room like sardines in order to take my place on the panel.As I stood in the front of the room waiting for my turn to speak, I did what any shoe geek does – I looked at what people had on their feet. Never have I been in a place where so many people were wearing minimalist and barefoot style shoes. When I Nike Air VaporMax Dam had my chance to talk I spoke about kid’s shoes for a bit – encouraging the production of better shoe options for kids is one of my personal missions. And the amazing thing was that the crowd responded in knowing agreement – heads were Nike Air Max 95 Femme nodding, the audience understood.