Nike Free 5.0 Running Shoes – Review

Description

Nike has introduced the nike free run australia concept in 2005 as a way of combining the principles and advantages of barefoot running to strengthen the feet and legs with the protection and traction of a training shoe – in a lightweight package.

Not everyone has the luxury of a bare foot training environment like a pristine beach or a soft, grass field to experience the benefits of training barefoot. Running on concrete is not what our legs and foot were designed for, thus we do need the protection offered by a nike free run shoe (we can’t see how landing with your body weight on a rock can improve your running at all).

There are deep, gender specific carves (sipes) molded along the length and width of the mid-sole, and these are what creates the barefoot feeling: you don’t have a piece of foam to flex anymore, but almost independent “blocks” that adapt to your foot while nike free run 3 moves during the running gait.

The flexibility index of a nike free run 2 (3.0, 5.0 etc.) does not only refer to the sole unit, but also to the upper which has to have the same ration between support and freedom as the mid-sole.

You can read the rest of our nike free 5.0 Review on our website, where you will also find a video from Nike explaining the engineering behind the shoe.