Thursday, August 21, 2014

Rotate Your Training Shoes, Decrease Injuries

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If you would like to help spare yourself an injury while doing any kind of sport, buy yourself and few different types of comfortable sneakers that coincide with the type of sport or training you are doing.  Rotate your sneakers daily.  Researchers of a 22-week study found that recreational runners who regularly rotated between pairs (most used completely different brands or models) were 39% less likely to suffer a running-related injury than those who run in the same shoes every time.  Most of the participants who experienced leg or low-back pain that sidelined them from running for a at least a day ran in just one kind of shoe.

Training in the same shoe everyday will enhance any deficiets by working all the same muscles the same way, while rotating shoes allows for use of all the differently activated muscles. 

I also like people to rotate on low-impact days to do some "barefoot" training to help improve balance and toe strength.

Happy Training!

Dr. Kimberly Maziarz Carlucci, DC

86 Valley Rd, Montclair, NJ 07042

973-744-9880

www.CarlucciChiropractic.com

www.ForwardMotion.net