The Barefoot Professor: by Nature Video

Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman has ditched his trainers and started running barefoot.  His research shows that barefoot runners, who tend to land on their fore-foot, generate less impact shock than runners in sports shoes who land heel first.  This makes barefoot running comfortable and could minimize running-related injuries.   Read more here http://www.nature.com/news/2010/10012... and find the original research here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08723

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