Health, Fitness & Human Performance · Endurance & Conditioning
A topic within Endurance & Conditioning, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Health, Fitness & Human Performance.
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Philo U. Saunders, David B. Pyne, Rob D. Telford & John A. Hawley
Surveys what actually predicts how much oxygen a trained runner needs at a given pace, finding biomechanics, muscle-tendon stiffness and training history matter more than the aerobic fitness measures runners usually track.
Daniel E. Lieberman et al.
Shows habitually barefoot runners land on the forefoot and generate far smaller impact collision forces than shod heel-strikers, a finding later stretched by the minimalist-shoe industry well past what the study itself claims.
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