Deep Water Running Shoes - AQx Sports Water
Running Shoe
What are Deep Water Running Shoes by AQX Sports?
AQX Sports have developed deep water running shoes based on research
based product development! The AQx Deep Water Runner was specifically
designed to enhance a runner’s “feel” or perception
of running while performing the cross-country style of deep water
running (DWR) through the usage of drag in the appropriate planes
of motion inherent in a land-based running gait pattern. Approximately
30 million Americans participate in running as a form of general
exercise for fitness and health (15). It has also been estimated
that up to 70% of this population will incur a running-related injury
(8, 43, 53).
Running has been described as "essentially a series of collisions
with the ground" (43), and these collisions typically exhibit vertical
ground reaction forces (VGRF) of 1.5 to 3 times the runner's body
weight (16, 27). These impact forces, as well as training errors
resulting from increasing the total volume of mileage too rapidly
and/or excessive mileage, are at least partially responsible for
the creation of many running-related injuries (1, 5, 8, 11, 18,
39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 59, 61). The deep water running shoe by AQX
sports is available in a powder
blue color for women and navy
blue for men!
Why YOU need a pair of deep water running shoes by AQX
Sports - A method of decreasing the volume of the running
impact forces and the negative effects of excessive mileage is to
supplement a runner's training program using deep water running
in a pool (12, 19, 23, 24, 33, 37, 46, 49, 56, 58, 64, 67). This
mode of training requires that the runner use a buoyancy device,
e.g. AquaJogger®, while attempting to mimic the terrestrial running
style (33, 46, 68, 70). This alternative training method has been
reported to decrease spinal and joint compressive loading, which
would decrease the likelihood of incurring running-related injuries
(21). A rationale for deep water running (DWR) is that it allows
the runner to train using a similar movement pattern to that found
on land without incurring the impact forces, and thus greatly reducing
the repetitive loading of the musculoskeletal system (17, 24, 42,
60). Injury rehabilitation rather than prevention is the most common
use of deep water running (21, 29, 32, 36, 37, 42, 45, 51, 60, 70,
71). One of the most common complaints regarding DWR is that it
doesn’t make your legs feel like they get much of a workout.
Through the increase in drag while the leg is moving backwards,
and the relatively smaller influences of drag while the leg is moving
forward, we have been able to capture a reasonable amount of resistance
that greatly heightens the sense of running on land. The AQx Sports
Deep Water Runner is specifically designed to enhance a runner’s
“feel” or perception of running while performing the
cross-country style of DWR.
Furthermore, when used in the cross country style of Deep water
running, the muscular benefit is enhanced due to the increase in
resistance throughout a much larger range of motion and is statistically
more like land-based running than DWR while barefoot and/or using
other styles of deep water running, i.e. high-knee, hybrids, etc.
Several athletes including bodybuilders are turning to pool
running as a way to burn extra calories without risking jury
while at the same time, providing the little instable muscles a
deep work out. Deep water running is used by rehab and sport injury
clinics throughout the world!
Despite the increasing use of deep water running as a method of
rehabilitation, and more recently, as supplementary training within
a normal regimen, very little research focuses on the DWR technique.
Several sources describe "proper" deep water running techniques.
It appears, however, that the most commonly used DWR style is characterized
by a high-knee or piston-like leg action that is more similar to
a stair-stepping machine (45, 70, 71). In contrast, the cross-country
style (41, 46) is intended to be more like land-based running and
requires a much larger range of motion within the gait pattern.
The specificity of training principle suggests that the movement
pattern of running in deep water needs to be closely aligned with
terrestrial running to maximize the benefit to the runner (7). This
principle suggests, and our research confirms, that the cross-country
style of deep water running is perhaps the most like terrestrial
running relative to the horizontal ankle displacement and thus overall
range of motion. Furthermore, our research using 20 subjects suggests
that the usage of a shoe while DWR appears to enhance the runner's
kinesthetic perception and thus allows the deep water running gait
pattern to be even more similar to land-based running (42). This
contention is corroborated by other land-based running research
(54, 66). Furthermore, we are utilizing a DWR shoe design that best
takes advantage of the accommodating resistance properties of water
(36). By properly increasing and decreasing drag to allow for a
better maximization of resistance in the appropriate planes of motion
found in a running gait pattern, the overall benefit to the runner,
as well as, the "feel" of deep water running will be enhanced.
Deep
Water Running Cross Country Ski Water Exercise
Deep
Water Running High Knee Style Water Exercise
Deep
Water Running "Butt Kicker" Style Water Exercise
Deep Water Running with Upper
Body "Flies" Water Exercise
AQx
Sports Deep Water Running Shoe
Development and Research of the AQx
Sports Deep Water Running Shoe
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