The influence of sprint spike bending stiffness on sprinting

Lake, MJ and Smith, G (2016) The influence of sprint spike bending stiffness on sprinting. Footwear Science. ISSN 1942-4299

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Abstract

There is evidence that increasing the longitudinal bending stiffness of sprinting footwear can lead to improved sprinting performance although this has not yet been established. This study examined the effect of four known shoe stiffness conditions on both sprinting performance and metatarsophalangeal joint (MTPJ) motion. Twelve trained sprinters performed 40 m maximal sprints along an indoor running track, two sprints in each stiffness condition, and high-speed video (600 Hz) recorded two-dimensional MTPJ motion during ground contact. To explore individual responses to the footwear manipulations, three-dimensional (1000 Hz) kinematic and kinetic data were collected during maximal sprinting for two sprinters. At the group-level, increasing shoe bending stiffness elicited no significant differences in sprinting performance or MTPJ motion, with any changes between conditions being subject-specific. In-depth individual analyses revealed that increased shoe stiffness could restrict motion about the MTPJ and there appeared to be a preferred stiffness for best performance. This notion of individual optimal sprint shoe stiffness and what factors might contribute to the optimum requires further investigation.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Footwear Science on 07/06/2016 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19424280.2016.1143038
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1103 Clinical Sciences, 1106 Human Movement And Sports Science
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine
Divisions:	Sport and Exercise Sciences
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Date of acceptance:	13 January 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	7 June 2017
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2016 12:49
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 04:18
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/19424280.2016.1143038
URI:	https://ljmu-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/3323

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