January 4, 2013
Toning shoes are considered to be shoes that are deliberately made unstable with design features like a rocker bottom shoe. The purpose of this instability is to create a balance problem so that the muscles have to work harder to compensate. As a result it is claimed that this gives an extra workout or ‘tone [...]
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March 5, 2010
There has been a lot of recent attention given by the media to barefoot running. Recent publications by Kerrigan et al and Liebermann et al have been widely promoted in the news media and on running barefoot websites. Both studies have been badly interpreted and misrepresented by the media and barefoot running websites as showing [...]
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