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Why do womens running shoes need to be dissimilar from mens running shoes? There are a few, substantial divergences amid mens and womens when it comes to their running bio-mechanics. It is essential to know and grasp them, in order to select a shoe that better helps a female runner, since a woman’s body is (luckily) significantly dissimilar than a man’s. Let’s review a list of the most important and the solutions running companies 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 commonly 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 reason it is very necessary that while engineering a womens running shoe, the designers and developers take this into thoughtfulness and work on addressing this by having a dissimilar midsole/outsole on the womens version, a combining of shapes and materials that may offer women the extra support 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 calculate 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 will have to be lower and/or softer, as it would have to sustain 15% less of the impact. 3. Women’s Feet Have a Different Shape. Men have broader and longer feet than women of their stature. Results show that women’s feet have dissimilar shape characteristics than men’s, in particular in the arch, the initial toe, the lateral side and the ball of the foot. This will have to must be considered when designing sports shoes for women. While the former points had impacts on the way a shoe’s sole unit had to be built, this point is when it comes to the upper. We highlighted the three main deviations among mens and womens running bio-mechanics, we commend you to check if there’s a specific women version of the model you are taking into account – or better even, a women only model. |
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