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Post by admin on Mar 25, 2008 19:22:44 GMT -5
Had to make a thread for this one, could become a important issue later on for some people. Strength shoes are useless. Artificially keeping you on your calves, might as well wear sprint spikes and just walk or run naturally. As one of my previous posts mentioned, the entire area below the knees generates 4 times less power than hips. Hips are where power comes from, not calves. You could just do 20 sets of calf raises, 15-20 reps and just take some short breaks inbetween. Biomechanically I also see it as useless. You arent allowing yourself to naturally stay on the balls of your feet while doing a plyometric drill or a sprint/run, so strength shoes is the answer? No man, it's just another way to make money. www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0036.htm^^ Study done shows 1%! increase in ankle strength, no difference in 40 time improvements, 1% increase in ankle flexibility, less improvement in plantar flexion. And... Here's a good one: Non strength shoe wearers improved MORE in their vertical then the guys wearing the strength shoes. Lots of shin splints too and other shin problems. Seems like you're paying $125 just to hurt yourself!
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