The latest high-tech running shoes will literally make you faster in races, whether you're an Olympian or a weekend warrior. They might help your training sessions, too.
Y’all… Unless you’re an Olympian, it’s not your shoes that are keeping you from hitting your time goals. 99.9% of all of us would be better off focusing on our sleep, diet, and nailing our volume and workouts. But if you think that dropping $250 on “super shoes” is gonna give you an extra second a mile, we’ll, then, the placebo effect is a real effect.
My favorite example of this is in cycling. Buying a 15k carbon fiber bike, to save 5 pounds over a 3k aluminum bike when they’re overweight. They could spend 10k on a personal trainer for a year and be way ahead.
Y’all… Unless you’re an Olympian, it’s not your shoes that are keeping you from hitting your time goals. 99.9% of all of us would be better off focusing on our sleep, diet, and nailing our volume and workouts. But if you think that dropping $250 on “super shoes” is gonna give you an extra second a mile, we’ll, then, the placebo effect is a real effect.
Yeah… This is a very blatant case of marketing being pushed as “facts” by a magazine paid to advertise.
Consume.It’s very cool and it has no effects on kids working in Bangladesh or the climate. Believe us, Nike said so
My favorite example of this is in cycling. Buying a 15k carbon fiber bike, to save 5 pounds over a 3k aluminum bike when they’re overweight. They could spend 10k on a personal trainer for a year and be way ahead.