// Integrating Muscle Activation Techniques with Resistance Training

Vibram Five Finger update

Not surprisingly, my stride length has decreased, now no longer heel striking (I don’t have 3” of padding at my heel now!). My stride is shorter, although it did take a couple of runs to get used to landing on my forefoot, rather than my heel. My pace is also slightly slower - but then again, I was never that fast past 200m and 400m :)

There is an interesting article in this weekend’s NY Times that a client sent me.

But for all the technological advances promoted by the industry — the roll bars, the computer chips and the memory foam — experts say the injury rate among runners is virtually unchanged since the 1970s, when the modern running shoe was introduced. Some ailments, like those involving the knee and Achilles’ tendon, have increased.

“There’s not a lot of evidence that running shoes have made people better off,” said Daniel E. Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, who has researched the role of running in human evolution.