The best basketball shoes 2024 lists are just secret weight loss ads, right?
I feel like nobody thinks about how much shoes weigh lmao
Idk if this is smth anyone else has caught onto but what do you meannn basketballs shoes get heavier in weight every year??
Is this supposed to make the athlete skinnier? Is the high intensity workout not enough? Everything in the ozempic economy is messed up bro
I've noticed the shoe weight creeping over the last few yrs.
You load the midsoles with more foam and call it ‘tech’ and more layers to somehow make it ‘lighter and faster’... like huh?
Just to be clear the biomechanics for lighter footwear is actually pretty well established. Research on running and court sports consistently show that show eight has a disproportionate energy cost relative to body mass.
The rough ballpark figure cited in exercise science is that 100g added to the foot equals roughly the metabolic equivalent of 1kg on the torso.
Over a 40 min run that compounds.
That's a lot of compounding for 200+ direction changes in a full game.
What rly matters for basketball is the cushioning, yes yes fr.
The cushioning that adds weight also genuinely reduces peak ground reaction force on hard courts. So you're trading some metabolic efficiency for impact absorption. That's a real tradeoff. I wish they would market it like this instead lol.
But it's almost never framed as a tradeoff.
It's just sold as ‘more tech = better’
What i think the players who know all this pick in shoes are more low profile, minimal setup types despite all the max-cushion hype.
Whether thats a personal preference or an experience based choice theyve felt it over a full season. Its hard to say from the outside but the science backs the claim
Whats soo strange to me is how the weight gets obsessed over in the running shoe culture. Gram counting is practically a hobby since increasing that reduce the body weight lol.
This skinny-tok stuff has gotten to real sports too lmao
Can somebody tell me what im missing? Losing respect for these ‘professional rated’ lists like pls lets talk about the real specs pls
What are yall’s favourite in the 2024 list so i can analyse them on my own too