About

Built on one question

Why do athletes run faster on a rubberized track? Founder and inventor Bill Crow spent years chasing that question, and the answer turned into a product: put material more resilient than a rubberized track inside the shoe, and the athlete carries the surface with them.

That work produced four U.S. patents — the first ever issued under the performance-enhancing athletic shoe component category — covering resilient performance materials in inserts, insoles, midsoles and soles. More than 30 years of refinement later, Springsoles are still ultra-thin, still trimmed only when needed for a flat fit, and still made in the USA.

Springbak® has been evaluated in university human performance laboratories, worn by professional and collegiate athletes, and tested in the least forgiving lab there is: competition. We are a small team that believes the ground contact side of performance deserves as much attention as the training program built on top of it.

What we publish here

This app is our athlete desk: training articles for elite and aspiring athletes, structured speed and power programs, and tools to log the numbers that actually matter. Read it, run the protocol, and hold us to the results.