If it feels right, just run with it

11 August 2015 - 02:01
By Tanya Farber

We might not trust a salesman who simply says: "Buy whichever running shoes are most comfortable". But, according to new research, perhaps we should. Benno Nigg and his research team in the faculty of kinesiology at the University of Calgary, in Canada, followed 1000 novice runners for a year and found that most of the beliefs about what shoes are best to prevent injury are false.

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