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- staystilljason, on 07/12/2009, -9/+148Barefeet weren't meant to run on today's concrete streets and roads. They evolved to trod on soil and sand and such.
- ShingoEX, on 07/12/2009, -11/+104I'd rather not risk getting nails/glass/rocks/etc jammed in my feet while running...
Also, the street is hella hot during the summer months. - inactive, on 07/12/2009, -4/+82I'll run on the grass,dirt all day long, but not on solid concrete, my feet would be hamburger. especially if it's hot out, then they would be cooked hamburger.
- Ninjapope, on 07/12/2009, -12/+78My flat feet would tend to disagree.
- Krakerjax, on 07/12/2009, -2/+63Running barefoot is great! Lets make a shoe!
- EddiePotato, on 07/12/2009, -3/+54Which would suggest parks and beaches are a good place to do it. But in most cities you'd end up with nails, used syringes and other horrors stuck in your feet if you tried that.
- Kupe, on 07/12/2009, -1/+44I had almost completely flat feet prior to getting into this barefoot thing a few months ago. I also injured my knees and shins terribly in the Air Force from from slamming my heels into the ground while wearing the cushiest sneakers I could find. Now my arch is much higher and stronger and I have no knee or shin pain. Start slow and I'm sure you can build up and strengthen your arches like I have.
- EddiePotato, on 07/12/2009, -2/+39You're making me hungry!
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -4/+39if you have healthy feet it's better to be barefoot than wear terrible shoes.
- Sil369, on 07/12/2009, -0/+34whimps, i walk on my hands
- Meor, on 07/12/2009, -0/+29Thick shoe bottoms probably aren't doing anything to strengthen your arches.
- migcmc03, on 07/12/2009, -3/+31I have a pair, they're the real deal. Start off slow, and before you know it, you experience the difference.
- Hodor, on 07/12/2009, -1/+28what about the old-school track shoes (like, pre 1950).. same thing without the dumb toes.
- EllisSpice, on 07/12/2009, -6/+32Sounds like a good idea but you seem to forget the glass and other hazards on paths now days.
- skelooth, on 07/12/2009, -4/+29There is no way in hell I'm running on concrete or black top barefoot. Not gonna do it.
- JTMON, on 07/12/2009, -3/+25It may be true but logic like this is not really helping:
"He’s sure that running barefoot or with minimal footwear is the way to avoid injury. After all, we evolved without shoes."
We evolved without a lot of things that currently make us safer. He concedes it's a tradeoff. - Meor, on 07/12/2009, -3/+22Really? You'd shoot yourself?
- java5isfluff, on 07/12/2009, -0/+19I've actually got a pair of those. Aside from the fact that your feet will smell unless you wear socks, they're great. I've worn them for miles of hiking and my feet feel fine afterward. I wear them all day and barely feel a thing.
And the toe thing wasn't really that odd once I wore them for about an hour. - falser, on 07/12/2009, -0/+17Those Vibrams look a lot like when Al Bundy made "God's Shoe".
- EddiePotato, on 07/12/2009, -1/+17Oh come on, now. Is the prospect of running barefoot through broken glass mixed with human waste really that unappealing?
- Qumahlin, on 07/12/2009, -1/+17Then you get shoes like Vibram's that are made specifically to prevent that sort of thing, yet not change your natural motion.
Also wearing a running shoe is not going to stop a nail from puncturing your foot unless its quite a small nail. I've seen plenty of people who have had nails go straight through their shoes into their feet without the nail being point up at the time. - Kupe, on 07/12/2009, -0/+15Rocky trails are worse than concrete. With proper running form landing forefoot first and very gently, concrete is no problem.
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -0/+14But bare feet aren't Nike+ compatible
- phishneslo, on 07/12/2009, -0/+13it is true. and nike has a line that simulates barefoot running called Nike Free. Lots of track coaches and trainers incorporate a few days of barefoot running and drills because it teaches muscles that shoes compensate for. we didn't evolve with shoes on our feet... look up Zola Budd. she broke many distance records barefootedly.
- Dunpite, on 07/12/2009, -15/+28Sounds like a paid advertisement of the Vibram thing. The multi-billion dollar running shoe industry and related research and design spending can't all be flawed
- 1hrSleep, on 07/12/2009, -1/+14What's wrong with running on concrete streets and roads? I can do it with my Vibrams just fine.
I can't run the same way as people have been taught (heel strike) but that's the wrong way to run anyways. - IAMRaven, on 07/12/2009, -1/+13Yes running barefoot *will* make your feet stronger in the same way a martial artist builds up the ability to break boards with their bare hands by constantly hitting baords bare handed: It works by constantly creating microscopic fractures in the bone that then heal back 2x as strong as the original. Just like working without gloves builds up callouses on the hands, which is natures way of doing the same thing to skin. Interestingly callous and calcium both come from the same Latin root word calx (meaning hard, heel, spur,etc) which originated from the Greek word chalix (meaning stone).
- 1longtime, on 07/12/2009, -1/+13Millions of years is perfectly appropriate to say, as long as you can give the word "people" a loose definition.
***** erectus is dated back approximately 1.8 million years and is known to hunt mammoth, which probably would have included cross country running to chase and trap the large animals.
So yes, millions of years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus - Railz, on 07/12/2009, -1/+13Amen =(
- CySailor, on 07/12/2009, -1/+12If their were any truth to this there would be great runners comeing out of poor countires where they can't afford shoes... like Kenya.
- InfinitySnatch, on 07/12/2009, -13/+24People have been running barefoot for millions of years and it has only been since 1972 that people have been wearing shoes with thick, synthetic heels,”
Millions of years, eh? What's worse, creationists or rampantly exaggerating evolutionists? - EddiePotato, on 07/12/2009, -1/+12Does anyone else imagine a runner doing a face plant when they read "plantar fasciitis"?
- snafflepaffle, on 07/12/2009, -0/+9For relatively slow, steady long distance, the high knees and up on your toes thing is difficult to maintain. It's a technique best applied to sprinting and running with a football, I think.
- str8lazy, on 07/12/2009, -0/+9This is funny because the DO come from countries like this.
- kaosethema, on 07/12/2009, -1/+10infomercial
- QcRoman, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8Sebulba ?
- Treecake, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8Mmm...pastry feet.
- beldenge, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8That's a good point. While we evolved to run on our feet, we also didn't have to deal with solid concrete and asphalt.
- zoink15, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8Running barefoot can help with that most of the time. Stand barefoot on the ground and rock up on to your toes. Unless you have some other type of problem going on you should be able to see your arch. That is one of the great benefits of running barefoot. You have to change how your stride and how your foot touches the ground. Most of us are heal strikers, when running barefoot you have change that to striking on the front of your foot first. This will strengthen the muscles in your feet and ankles. The arch will start to come back over time.
I do admit though for certain conditions running barefoot or in no-support shoes may not be the best idea. - zoink15, on 07/12/2009, -0/+8Once you toughen up your feet you can run on concrete just fine. Before I got my pair of five fingers I used to do it quite a bit. You have to match the speed of your foot strike to your overall speed when you feet come in contact with the pavement. Just touching concrete/asphalt does not cause problems its the sliding across it. Heat can be a problem but I usually don't like to run in the heat unless I am training for it. I got my Vibram FiveFingers (http://gear-addicts.com/?p=44%29 )primarily because of goat heads. /shudder
- JonTheGoose, on 07/12/2009, -2/+10Whoa.....Déjà vu.
- cfuse, on 07/13/2009, -0/+8Money spent != results.
Most people's 'running shoes' are for anything but. This is like saying the fashion industry could make a spacesuit. - bdbr, on 07/12/2009, -0/+7(just in case you missed the last half-dozen times 1hrSleep posted this URL)
- CivicTV, on 08/14/2009, -0/+7http://www.bundyology.com/hpg/zz608.jpg
- theonlywizdum, on 07/12/2009, -0/+7Running on concrete is fine, you just need to start slow and build up a tougher layer of skin.
- skyfyre, on 07/12/2009, -6/+13FTA: "He’s sure that running barefoot or with minimal footwear is the way to avoid injury. After all, we evolved without shoes."
We also evolved without glass and nails on the ground. I'd prefer not to catch Tetanus while I'm running/walking around. - NoTiG, on 07/12/2009, -0/+6Mine are already on their way... I remember an article a long time ago I am not sure whether it was on digg.. . but it also talked about how shoes ruin our walking form.. not just running... so my hope is that these will also improve my walk since I walk about 10 miles a day
- bdbr, on 07/12/2009, -0/+6I don't know why people are burying you - that's exactly what happened to the author in the article.
Oh wait, nobody actually READS the articles here... - pyrogyro, on 07/12/2009, -0/+6Next thing is to convince women to keep their shirts off
- inactive, on 07/12/2009, -0/+6If you'd "rather run in flip flops" then it sounds like you've never seriously run before.
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