Even if your foot still hits the ground the same way, there’s less time between impacts. I think that means both (a) the total impact is spread over more events, which could be gentler and (b) the total impact is less, because gravitational acceleration is quadratic in time between steps.
Even if your foot still hits the ground the same way, there’s less time between impacts. I think that means both (a) the total impact is spread over more events, which could be gentler and (b) the total impact is less, because gravitational acceleration is quadratic in time between steps.
There’s some research in this direction, which I haven’t looked into: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8329321/