Barefoot running expert Lee Saxby took some time out for VIVOBAREFOOT to answer some questions about the latest research to shed some evidence on the benefits of barefoot running.VB: Briefly, what does Daniel Lieberman’s research show?
LS: The paper entitled ‘Foot Strike and Injury Rates in Endurance Runners’ studied athletes in the Harvard cross country running team between August 2006 – January 2011 and found that the runners in the team who have a habitual heel-strike running technique had twice as many repetitive stress injuries than the runners in the team who have a habitual forefoot-strike running technique. Read more…




