Walking with a healthy gate involves a gentle heel first landing/roll onto a fully loaded foot which includes a dynamically moving arch helping support our weight as we pass over it to the next step. This does not apply to cycling. Running with a healthy gate involves a soft forefoot landing that activates and loads the foots windlass mechanism (the arch is part of this), as well as loading the springs of our legs, returning that energy through each step. This also does not apply to cycling.
Cycling is far more akin to doing squats in terms of how the foot functions: a static position pushing down to accomplish work. For the foot to function as fully as possible it should have a solid platform to push down on, and one both long and wide enough to fully support the foot’s natural splay and arch functions. This is why cycling shoes are a rigid platform (which makes sense) but they fail to generally be wide enough. With soft soled shoes, pedal size and shape come into play, and a longer pedal allows for the full arch of the foot to engage properly with each “squat.” With abandon, Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
