摘要：Buying minimalistic shoes does not mean that you know how to use them. Salespersons are rarely competent to give adequate advice how to transition to new shoes. The same happens when someone chooses to run barefoot. So, the aim of the present experiment was to fi nd out whether giving or not giving an explanation of the correct technique of foot placement in barefoot running and running in a minimalistic shoe infl uences the frequency of rear-foot strikes in natural, rear foot strikers when running barefoot or in minimalistic shoes. Thirty-nine subjects (age =34.9±6.9 years, height =174±9 cm, mass =73.1±13.8 kg), randomly divided into four groups participated in this experiment. Subjects in groups 1 and 3 did not receive an explanation, while groups 2 and 4 did. Besides the difference in explanation, there was also a difference in the shoes worn during the intervention. Subjects in the groups 1 and 2 ran barefoot, while subjects in groups 3 and 4 ran in minimalistic shoes. The initial state of the foot strike patterns was measured in classic running shoes. During the intervention subjects ran according to the group they were in. 80% of the subjects in groups 1 and 3 took the most steps in a rear-foot strike pattern (Median =100) while only 21% of the subjects in groups 2 and 4 took the most steps in a rear-foot strike pattern (Median =15.7), U =64, z =–3.619, p (0.00) of the correct technique of foot placement in barefoot running and running in a minimalistic shoe
关键词：running; barefoot; minimalistic shoes; explanation; strike type
