Foot-Ware Exercise

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relation in the performance of adolescents and different types of foot-ware conditions such as running shoes, spikes, and barefoot. Researchers hypothesized that running barefoot would alter the running times in a short distance 30-meter run compared to runners that wore running shoes or spikes. The researchers studied a total of thirty-three adolescents around age eleven, nineteen boys and fourteen girls, with approximately equal training experience. Prior to performing the tests, participants were evaluated on their age, body mass, stature, and foot length, as well as the measurements of their running shoes and spikes. The runners each had to perform the 30-meter sprints with the three different