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The Painful Truth About Your Trainers : Are Running Shoes A Waste of Money?

The Painful Truth About Your Trainers : Are Running Shoes A Waste of Money?

Posted by in Fitness & Exercise on 21. Dec, 2009 | No Comments

Thrust enhancers, roll bars, microchips…the $20 billion running – shoe industry wants us to believe that the latest technologies will cushion every stride. Yet in this extract from his controversial new book, Christopher McDougall claims that injury rates for runners are actually on the rise, that everything we’ve been told about running shoes is wrong [...]


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