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Heel walking more effiicent that forefoot walking

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by NewsBot, Feb 13, 2010.

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    The influence of foot posture on the cost of transport in humans
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    Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 790-797 (2010)
     
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    Heels-First is Less Work than Walking on Toes, Balls of Feet
     
  3. Griff

    Griff Moderator

    The countdown begins for how long it takes the barefoot community to pick up on this, and spin it in their favour...
     
  4. Cameron

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    netizens

    As far as I recall there are two distinct "gait patterns models " of walking and running. What separates the two and distinquished fast walking from running is initial heel contact i.e once the leading extremity uses the forefoot to the exclusion of heel contact, then you are running. Again from memory middle distance runners will use forefoot contact only by which reckoning anything up to that point gives a modified heel contact paradigm.

    Subsequently one might deduce for three score years and ten, running at speed is less efficient than walking.


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