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The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by amunozo »

pandemic_region wrote: post #36
jyounker wrote: post #28

I'd alway been prone to avoiding shoes. I started running when I was 16 (1986). During high school I'd run 10-14 miles a night about five days a week, mostly barefoot. I didn't start regularly wearing shoes until after college. Since I started wearing shoes there has been a significant change in my foot structure. My big toes have moved outward by at least 10 degrees. Before then they were directly in-line with the b…

For a couple of years, there was this barefoot guy who commuted on the same train as me to work. No matter the season, always barefoot. I must say, purely from a hygiene perspective, it felt uncomfortable looking at his feet. They were dirty and dusty in the same way shoes would pick up dirt. What do your feet look like today ? Honest question.

I agree it shocks at first, but shoes are even dirtier as people don't wash them daily as they would with their feet.

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by sebastiansm »

iamacyborg wrote: post #42
mapcars wrote: post #37

There are so many things put together here almost randomly, because of that its easy to criticise the whole thing, but there are some reasonable things in it. Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you, so is any reasonable exposure to nature. The key here is exposure to nature, walking on asphalt or concrete is not nature. This is about walking barefoot so that your soles connect to the soil, ea…

> Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you Citation needed

Not sure of any benefit of soil-feet connection.

But make sense to being able to move our feets freely without any hard sole that limits the development of the foot musculature and joints.

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by codr7 »

The human body is an amazing construction; it knows exactly how to run, it's more a question of letting it run its way as opposed to making it run the way you think it should.

The main issue with running for me is emotional. Like many others, I tend to overdo it; and then its not fun, which means I stop doing it.

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by lukan »

iamacyborg wrote: post #42
mapcars wrote: post #37

There are so many things put together here almost randomly, because of that its easy to criticise the whole thing, but there are some reasonable things in it. Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you, so is any reasonable exposure to nature. The key here is exposure to nature, walking on asphalt or concrete is not nature. This is about walking barefoot so that your soles connect to the soil, ea…

> Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you Citation needed

My recommendation would be to just try it out, to feel for yourself.

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by franktankbank »

iamacyborg wrote: post #42
mapcars wrote: post #37

There are so many things put together here almost randomly, because of that its easy to criticise the whole thing, but there are some reasonable things in it. Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you, so is any reasonable exposure to nature. The key here is exposure to nature, walking on asphalt or concrete is not nature. This is about walking barefoot so that your soles connect to the soil, ea…

> Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you Citation needed

Come on man. 1+1=2 citation needed?

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by lm28469 »

flowingfocus wrote: post #9

Anecdotally, I see a lot of people wearing minimal shoes in their daily lives. But pretty much no minimal/barefoot runners anymore

We're in the goofy looking clown tier carbon plate $400 shoes that self destruct after 50km era:

https://assets.adidas.com/images/w_600,f_auto,q_auto/2d9fa49...

In 10 years we'll be writing about how dumb this trend is while we revert to barefoot running

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by jibbit »

Aldipower wrote: post #5

The article is not telling what happened after the hysteria. This movement settled and manifested to a "natural running" idea. We now have Altra, Topo Athletic, Hoka, Invo8 and others, offering shoes with more or less flat soles. Encouraging you to run with a natural running pose. This does not mean cushioning wouldn't be allowed.

a really high percentage of the runners i see out i the street are forefoot striking in zero drops - clearly that's not barefoot but i'd also question whether you can call it 'short lived'

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by JKCalhoun »

genghisjahn wrote: post #20

I read Born to Run and loved it. I never did the barefoot running thing. I just started running. That was four years ago. Weight is down. BP is down. A1C in the middle of normal. It’s done wonders. There’s a passage in there about how humans have evolved to run that’s fascinating. Made me realize maybe we are naturals at running.

Was is David Attenborough's "Planet Earth"? There was a bit about a tribe that hunt antelope or some other kind of herd animal. After separating one from the herd, the human eventually "outruns" it. Not in speed but just tenacity, endurance — the animal eventually collapses.

Blew my mind that we could do that.

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by mapcars »

iamacyborg wrote: post #42
mapcars wrote: post #37

There are so many things put together here almost randomly, because of that its easy to criticise the whole thing, but there are some reasonable things in it. Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you, so is any reasonable exposure to nature. The key here is exposure to nature, walking on asphalt or concrete is not nature. This is about walking barefoot so that your soles connect to the soil, ea…

> Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you Citation needed

There are studies you can find about it, for example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11211751/

The simple way to understand it is exposure to nature activates some internal mechanisms that evolved with us through millions of years of species living in nature. In a similar manner it feels so good to go to a beach on a sunny day - you have exposure to earth, water, sun and wind.

Re: The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010

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Post by paulcole »

franktankbank wrote: post #55
iamacyborg wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you Citation needed

Come on man. 1+1=2 citation needed?

I don’t need a citation. Just a simple explanation why it is so obvious and so beneficial.
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