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Unfortunately as I spent so much time preparing for my presentation yesterday (time mostly spent pacing around with nervous tension) I’ve decided to cheat a little and combine the last two days of the conference.
I’m going to focus on the great work being done by some big sports companies who have presented at the conference.
Day two in Vienna and all’s going well, the conference started off with a fantastic keynote lecture by Benno Nigg discussing impact forces and muscle activation in running. It was interesting to note he stressed the importance of muscle activation in the running strike and not just peak force, which has been used recently to promote barefoot running. Muscle activation is a good indicator of fatigue levels and should reveal if wearing trainers can reduce the effort required to run as there’s been no evidence that running barefoot reduces injury.
He also mentioned that the promotion of barefoot running roughly has a 25 year cycle (big news in 1960, 1985 and 2010), if this blog is still going in 2035 and barefoot running becomes big news again I’ll try to remember to mention it. (See here for some videos of Benno and more detail on his work)
It’s a balmy 35 degrees here in Vienna, and as the sun shines mercilessly our elite group of Sports Engineers are currently ingesting the latest research at the 8th ISEA Sports Engineering conference. Thankfully the International centre hosting the conference has characteristically efficient air conditioning, so for now at least the only things overheating are the many minds trying to absorb such a wealth of engineering information.
Over the next four days I’ll be posting an article giving a quick breakdown of pieces of work which impressed us and might be of interest to those of you keeping abreast of technology in sport. So keep coming back for the hot picks! Read the rest of this entry »
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