Opinion: Nuno Cobra Jr - It's the foot that cushions the impact of running, not the sneakers By Ruetir
If you could study the anatomy of the foot in more depth, you would see that it is a phenomenon of biomechanical engineering, representing a technology that we are still far from mastering.
Your foot is made up of extremely strong and robust muscles and tendons, an amazing set, which was designed to support the weight of your entire body, even running at high speed, making numerous acrobatic challenges possible.
A few decades ago, to make sense of their sales marketing and leverage the profit margin, shoe manufacturers discovered that it would be possible and coherent to promise more cushioning and protection against the impact of running. In fact, to do this successfully, it would be necessary to invent something similar to a bionic foot, attached to the original foot....
The Barefoot Autism Challenge is kind of going to coincide with a challenge Special Olympics is having me do to prepare myself for the USA Games in Orlando. The challenge is one million steps for 20 weeks, January 10 through May 29. And of course since it...