There is a serious debate brewing at this time in the running community connected with a probable not fair gain from performance enhancing running shoes. These are running shoes that include returning of your energy right after the foot has contacted the road. These kinds of athletic shoes are probably unlawful and performance maximizing, nevertheless they haven't been forbidden yet. Almost all high level athletes are actually running in them in marathons and quite a few nonelite athletes are likewise using them to get an alleged performance boost. They have become so widespread, it may not be simple for the regulators to control there use, even if the wished to. A current show of the podiatry livestream was dedicated to this issue, mainly the disputes round the Nike Vaporfly and Next% athletic shoes.

In this edition of PodChatLive, Craig and Ian talked with Alex Hutchinson discussing these athletic shoes that may have shifted the needle more than any other shoe in history of running, the Nike Vaporfly along with Next%. They talked about should they come good on their advertising guarantee of improving upon runners by 4% and just what really does that basically indicate? They spoke of where does the line between creativity and ‘shoe doping’ get drawn and when these footwear could they be only for high level athletes. Alex Hutchinson is a writer and a journalist based in Toronto, Canada. His major focus these days is the science of running and conditioning, that he reports for Outside magazine, The Globe and Mail, and the Canadian Running magazine. Alex additionally handles technology for Popular Mechanics (where he won a National Magazine Award for his energy reporting) and adventure tourism for the New York Times, and had been a Runner’s World reporter from 2012 to 2017. Alex's most recent book is an exploration of the science of endurance. It’s called ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.