These new findings are why there has been significant growth in the popularity of barefoot running. However, what has really made this barefoot boon accessible to the masses is the march of the minimalists, a crusade led by the Vibram Fivefingers phenomenon.


A new way of thinking


It is our belief that we are moving beyond a Newtonian understanding of biomechanics and are beginning to understand the body as a bio- computer, which requires the input of good information in order to output good information. If you dampen that information source - the body’s only direct information source connecting it to planet Earth - then you compromise your data input. Compromised data input makes for compromised data output.


This is fine in conditioned people, but retailers might point out that at least 80% customers over-pronate … what about them? Well, never mind the 80%, as it is fair to say that 100% of people who support a fractured arm with plaster will experience significant atrophy and wasting of the supporting muscles – and that’s just in the space of six weeks of support … never mind a lifetime of support! We cannot expect anti-pronation muscles to be strong when they are


not required to work. AUGUST 2010 SGB SPORT 13


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