Natural Running: Optimal Running Form
To discover your best running form all you need to do is run barefoot. You'll immediately discover that when barefoot, you're not landing on your heels, you are landing on your midfoot/forefoot.
Landing on your midfoot/forefoot, is the most natural way to run, it is also the fastest and most efficient way to run. Newton Running shoes were developed to make your feet think they're barefoot and increase your performance.
Find your Sweet Spot
When you walk, you land on your heels. When you sprint, you land on your toes. Running is in between. Efficient distance running is about landing on your sweet spot. Not your heel, not your toes. Newton Running encourages running on your midfoot/forefoot, a technique and position that helps keep you running more efficiently, injury-free and faster, no matter the distance. We think of this style of running as a Land Lever Lift scenario.
Newton running shoes have a unique feel as soon as you put them on — lightweight, breathable, comfortable, highly cushioned but completely stable and responsive.
The upper is completely vented from toe box to heel. Anatomical stretch panels cradle the forefoot. The entire upper is highly adjustable with an anti-friction sock liner throughout.
The actuator lugs extend from the base of the forefoot region promoting a natural running technique as if you were barefoot. Newton Action/Reaction Technology™ allows you to land on your forefoot safely. Few shoes can come close to Newton's impact rating in the forefoot. When your forefoot impacts first your foot has less of an opportunity to pronate or supinate as it would if you were heel striking, minimizing injuries.
After the forefoot makes impact and the actuators are driven fully into their corresponding chambers (the action), then levering and propulsion come into play. As you push off and drive forward the lugs are released (the reaction) providing energy return that in comparison to traditional foam shoes feels alive and fast.