http://www.runningbarefootisbad.com/another-study/73/ Exposing barefoot runners for the nutters that they are Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:28:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.runningbarefootisbad.com/another-study/73/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Where are all these impact injuries that runners are supposed be getting an epidemic of? Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:28:41 +0000 http://www.runningbarefootisbad.com/?p=73#comment-17 [...] Libermann et al in the first sentence to his paper on barefoot running says “Running can be most injurious at the moment the foot collides with the ground”. I notice that they supplied no citation to back this claim up. In that work of semi-fiction, ‘Born to Run’, Chris McDougall makes numerous unsupported claims about impact injuries. Robbins et al in their editorialization of what is otherwise good research, talk about the sensory illusion that soft running shoes can cause alterations in impact behaviours and this makes running shoes increase the risk for impact injuries in runners. I could go on and cite many more examples and claims that get made about impact causing injury in runners. [...] [...] Libermann et al in the first sentence to his paper on barefoot running says “Running can be most injurious at the moment the foot collides with the ground”. I notice that they supplied no citation to back this claim up. In that work of semi-fiction, ‘Born to Run’, Chris McDougall makes numerous unsupported claims about impact injuries. Robbins et al in their editorialization of what is otherwise good research, talk about the sensory illusion that soft running shoes can cause alterations in impact behaviours and this makes running shoes increase the risk for impact injuries in runners. I could go on and cite many more examples and claims that get made about impact causing injury in runners. [...]

]]> http://www.runningbarefootisbad.com/another-study/73/comment-page-1/#comment-9 What does the barefoot running community continually fall for this nonsense? Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:41:21 +0000 http://www.runningbarefootisbad.com/?p=73#comment-9 [...] already gone over how the barefoot running community generally misrepresented and misreported the Liebermann research and how they misrepresented and even lied about the Kerrigan research, so now let’s take a closer [...] [...] already gone over how the barefoot running community generally misrepresented and misreported the Liebermann research and how they misrepresented and even lied about the Kerrigan research, so now let’s take a closer [...]

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