Yes, You Can Wear Barefoot Shoes with Flat Feet or High Arches. Hereās Why. Not infrequently, when someone takes a look at my Xero Shoes, whomever Iām speaking with will say: āI wish I could wear barefoot shoes, but I canāt do that. I need support.ā āOh?ā Iāll respond. āWhy do you need support?ā Then […]
This post is NOT what you think. But then again, it kinda is. š Check out this video and let me know if you’re a SMART runner. ļ»æIn short, there are two aspects to wearing running shoes from “Big Shoe” (note how that = “B.S.”) which could not only affect your brain, but whether you’re […]
While the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are postponed until next year, now as great time to look back at one of the moments that helped shape the modern barefoot running movement. It was 60 years ago that Abebe Bikila won a gold medal in the Rome Olympics running in bare feet. A great article called OLYMPICS […]
When I talk to many runners who still use “traditional” running shoes,and then tell them about Xero Shoes, they often say “Well, there’s a debate about barefoot/minimalist shoes.” First, the quotes are because what we call “traditional” running shoes have only been around forĀ less than 0.05% of the time humans have been wearing protective […]
While it’s not possible to never get injured when running (or living, for that matter), here are 5 tips to help keep injuries at bay. What do you think? Have any other tips? Leave them in the comments, below. Think other people could use these tips? Share this page. Want it for yourself? […]
When I tell people that I love distance running, I often get reprimanded. āYouāre going to blow out your knees,ā people warn me.Ā I donāt know if they genuinely think they are going to save me from the perils of ACL surgery or if people just like to get on a soapbox, but itās getting […]
When I tell people that I run barefoot (or when they see me out running without any shoes), the first response I get is “Oh, so you run on the grass?” Or when I suggest to people that they might want to try running barefoot, the first thing they say is, “With my feet/knees/ankles/eyelashes, I’d […]
Are you on the Paleo diet, or curious about it? Many people who discover paleo — and I’m neither endorsing it or bashing it in this article — move past the diet and into the “lifestyle,” looking to move and live more like our hominid ancestors. And, not surprisingly, one way to recapture our movement […]
Dennis Kimetto shattered the marathon world record when he ran 2:02:57 in Berlin. But how fast can we really go over a 26.2 mile course? 2:01? 2:00? Faster? Well, long-time distance running guru, Phil Maffetone thinks 1:59 is do-able. VERY do-able. And he also thinks that the person who sets that record will be running […]
I received a message from Bryan on Facebook, asking if I had some advice about the fact that when he goes for a run in Xero Shoes, sometimes he can do 3-4 miles without a problem, but sometimes he gets some soreness after a mile or so. I decided to add my response as a […]