Nike Free Running Shoe

Below is a description of the Nike Free Running Shoe. These are the shoes that I do all my training and running in. Before I used the Free's I had endless problems with my calf muscles and knee soreness. The Nike Free Shoe has helped me develop a stronger foot and ankle complex and I am now injury and pain free in my lower legs.

The Nike Free story started like many stories at Nike. It was born out of curiosity, innovation and a relentless drive to seek out new ways to help our athletes. In 2000, after traveling to Stanford University and observing that legendary Track coach Vin Lananna had been allowing his athletes to run barefoot on the soft grass of the Stanford University golf course for years, Nike researchers set out to see if all this barefoot running actually impacted the way athletes performed.

The Research Team at Nike spent years studying the natural motion of the foot during exercise. They used state-of-the-art technologies to observe athletes of all shapes and sizes. The result was undeniable.

It was clear that a runner’s biomechanics change and the foot itself behaves differently when striking the ground barefoot. The bare foot naturally distributes pressure over a greater area, reducing the impact on certain areas of the foot. Nike’s researchers and scientists knew though, that athletes could not just start running everywhere barefoot. They had to find a way to create a shoe that would encourage the foot’s natural motion without sacrificing protection.

The result was the Nike Free; a shoe unlike any other that would let athletes reap the benefits of barefoot training without actually running barefoot. But that was just the beginning. The Nike Free marked the start of a whole new way of looking at footwear, and became the inspiration for many of Nike’s most exciting innovations in recent years.