The Coach Amy and Coach Liz Show
Promoting a healthy and positive experience for endurance athletes.
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The Coach Amy and Coach Liz Show

Created with endurance athletes in mind

Created with endurance athletes in mind. Coaches Amy and Liz have a combined thirty years of coaching and seven decades of competing in endurance sports. They cover topics relevant to athletes at various levels of participation: those training for a personal challenge to those competing for an age group placement or race qualification.

 

Do Supershoes Help or Hurt Endurance Athletes?

Coach Amy and Coach Liz discuss supershoes and their impact on running speed, mechanics, and the body in general. Are they as super as they suggest, or are they potential villains in disguise?

What role do Running shoes play in endurance sports? [0-2:50]

What is the impact of running shoes in general?

What are SuperShoes? What is unique about them? [2:50-5:37]

Super shoe or super-shoe or supershoe? We don’t know how to spell it!

Correction Alert- I refer to super shoes being around for a long time in the physical therapy setting- but I am referring to orthopedic shoes with similar features. Coach Amy

Supershoes is a term used by the fitness and shoe industries. They are resilient, highly cushioned shoes with a carbon-fiber plate and a forefoot rocker.

What is the effect of a Metatarsal bar or Forefoot Rocker? [5:37-8:46]

Coach Amy refers to a metatarsal bar, but another term for this is a forefoot rocker. What is it, and what is the impact of it? What is it doing to our foot biomechanics? Could it cause injury?

Do supershoes help Endurance Athletes run faster? [8:46-10:20]

Not all supershoes are created equally, and neither are runners!

Possible sacrifices that endurance athletes are making by running in supershoes. [10:20-24:00]

  • Stability?

  • Muscle atrophy?

  • Injury?

Navicular bone in dark green.

The future of supershoes in endurance running and Controversy over disparity and a Recap [24:00-27:15]

 

research ARticles

Check out these research articles if you are interested in more details.

Joubert DP, Dominy TA, Burns GT. Effects of Highly Cushioned and Resilient Racing Shoes on Running Economy at Slower Running Speeds. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2023 Jan 10;18(2):164-170. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.2022-0227. PMID: 36626911.

Tenforde, A., Hoenig, T., Saxena, A. et al. Bone Stress Injuries in Runners Using Carbon Fiber Plate Footwear. Sports Med 53, 1499–1505 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-023-01818-z

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