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[–] ATQ@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jimbolauski@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] davidalso@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I was totally looking for the Nike ad on the same page.

[–] dolla@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I got the vapor fly 2s for like 60% off so that’s what I wear. I’m not a crazy serious runner, I just wanna be comfy 🤷‍♂️

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I started training more regularly on the big max stack cushioned shoes and i think i'm starting to get weird pains and sore spots i've never had before when i was running only racing flats

The max stack carbon shoes are good for race days but i think there might be some truth in the warnings about relying on them too much in training