Why do womens running shoes need to be distinct from mens running shoes?
There are a few, requisite differences between mens and womens when it comes to their running bio-mechanics. It is prominent to know and understand them, in order to plump a shoe that great helps a female runner, since a woman's body is (luckily) significantly distinct than a man's.
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Let's recap a list of the most prominent and the solutions running fellowships are implementing to address them.
1. Women have a wider Q-Angle.
The Q-Angle is the angle of incidence of the quadriceps muscle relative to the patella (see picture).
Women have normally larger hips rather than men. This means a wider Q-Angle. As a consequence of the wider angle, women tend to pronate more than men.
For this fancy it is very prominent that while engineering a womens running shoe, the designers and developers take this into consideration and work on addressing this by having a distinct midsole/outsole on the womens version, a compound of shapes and materials that can offer women the extra sustain they need.
2. Women's Body Mass is Lower.
Statistically, women have approximately 15% less body mass than men with the same foot size. This means that when designers fancy how much bouncy the foam material in the midsole (for example) needs to be, they have to take into account the fact that for the same shoe size, the womens version should be lower and/or softer, as it would have to sustain 15% less of the impact.
3. Women's Feet Have a distinct Shape.
Men have broader and longer feet than women of their stature. Results show that women's feet have distinct shape characteristics than men's, especially in the arch, the first toe, the lateral side and the ball of the foot. This should should be determined when designing sports shoes for women.
While the previous points had impacts on the way a shoe's sole unit had to be built, this point is about the upper.
We highlighted the three main differences between mens and womens running bio-mechanics, we recommend you to check if there's a exact women version of the model you are considering - or great even, a women only model.
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