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Natural running shoes – the rules – right tool for the right job

Natural running shoes – the rules – right tool for the right job

When rehabilitating yourself from shod-running back to your natural running style, bare foot running is an essential part of your training (as this, of course, was the human body’s default running condition). However, years of atrophy and feet encapsulated in narrow and cushy running shoes means that you will perceive it as quite extreme to…

What Lydiard would say to the barefoot/natural running “fad”

What Lydiard would say to the barefoot/natural running “fad”

What would Arthur Lydiard, the maker of champions, have thought of all these fads coming out? Naturalmovement, barefoot, natural movement drills? Surely, a master coach who turned New Zealand into the “Kenya of its day”, a serious practitioner of his craft, would have no time for such ideas when there was “serious” athletics training to…

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