A new 1-year study at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that the ChiRunning technique was found to produce less impact and higher efficiency, when compared with other common styles of running – the rearfoot strike and the anterior (forefoot) strike.
Out of the four compared running styles, participants practicing ChiRunning showed lower impact forces, greater attenuation of impact, less knee extension eccentric work as well as less braking force. The Chi Running technique was shown to be the most effective at reducing the overall impact and the rate of impact, which are the greatest contributors to overuse injuries in runners.
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