Think you can’t run an ultra-marathon? Well, think again. Maybe your limitations aren’t what you imagine them to be. I just had a great chat with ultra-runners, Jonathan Sinclair and Melissa Gosse that I know you’ll love, whether you ever plan to run an ultra or not. Watch the webinar and you’ll learn: Do you […]
The recent “Special Report” in Men’s Health about barefoot running has inspired me to help you make a career change. You, too, can write an article about barefoot running that will appear in a major newpaper, magazine, or television show, if you do the following. Ten Steps to writing a popular barefoot running article Open with […]
I’m a total fitness geek. I’m always on the lookout for a new workout, a new exercise, a new challenge. I’m also an efficiency geek. I like things that give the maximum bang for the minimum buck, if you will. And, I’m a sprinter, so I pay the most attention to anything that will make […]
Whenever we’re selling Xero Shoes at a public event, a few people will come up to our booth, examine our barefoot sandals, and claim (with a strange tone of almost arrogance), “I can’t wear these. I pronate.” Sometimes they’ll pull out the third party endorsement, “My doctor says I pronate.” Or the less-convincing, “The shoe […]
Imagine for a moment that you did extensive research into something, only to conclude that you need more research before you could make a meaningful statement about that something. Is that news? I don’t think so. Would any newspaper publish a headline: Scientists discover: We’re not sure yet! Nope. No news is not news. So, […]
National Taiwan Normal University recently published a study in the journal, Gait & Posture, that might be the dumbest study ever done about barefoot running. Or, now that I think of it, it maybe it’s the best. Hmmm… Let’s start with the study and then I’ll tell you why it’s so stupid and so awesome at […]
Most barefoot runners know Daniel Lieberman from Chris McDougall’s best-seller, Born To Run. Dr. Lieberman is a professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard who has done some seminal research on barefoot running. One of his basic premises, from an evolutionary perspective, is that human’s ability to sweat allowed us to run for long distances, letting […]
 Join Xero Shoes for International Barefoot Running Day (IBRD) on Sunday, May 5th. IBRD is the brainchild of The Barefoot Runners Society, and the Colorado chapter has something special lined up: The 1st ever Barefoot Donut Dash! We’ll start at 10am at the Xero Shoes office — 5470 Conestoga Ct, Boulder, CO, 80301 — with […]
People always ask me for videos of barefoot running form. I usually avoid making them — because the way *I* run is not necessarily the way *you* should run. That said, here’s a video of Simon from Macedonia demonstrating what I think is some of the best barefoot form you’ll ever see. I think everyone […]
From the “Here we go again” department of the barefoot running world: About once every 2 months, some major news publication chimes in with one of these two stories:Â “Barefoot Running is GREAT for you” or “Barefoot running is BAD for you.” The latest is of the latter variety and comes with headlines like this […]