Cushioning in shoes can lead runners to land harder.

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Consensus

92%

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Evidence quality

86/100

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Risk

Low

well-tolerated

Cost / month

$0

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Effort

Med

time & habit

First mentionedSep 2020

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Peter Attia· MD

so if you're running in a cushioned a highly cushioned shoe most likely you're going to be landing on your heel which by the way i used to run in a hoka so i can relate i know what that feels like i know what it's like to heel strike in a hoka so when you heel strike in a hoka compared to heel striking in a conventional regular shoe normal shoe a nike air pegasus let's say you're likely to have based on research higher slopes it's called the load rate so a quicker application of force during that first impact peak

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Peter Attia· MD

if you gives people cushioning they actually land harder and that's been shown by a number of different research studies

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Peter Attia· MD

and when you put a support the muscles get weaker and there are lots of studies that show that when you take the support away take an arch support away the muscles of the foot get stronger when you add cushioning you land harder there have been a number of studies that have shown that that new hoka shoe causes people to hit harder

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