How to start with barefoot shoes
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Perhaps you are wearing lined shoes most of your life. Do not expect to throw them and be able to do the same miles – whether walking or running – in barefoot shoes. To some extent, you should learn how to run and walk. It will take a conscious effort on your part, and it may be very difficult. You are not only learning, you too Abolition Some of the inherent habits. The key is to slow down. Very, very slow.
The way you deal with barefoot shoes is based on what you are looking for. I coincided with being running, which I did well because I king To take it slow (absorbed). If you are currently from the marathon and you want to try barefoot shoes, you will have difficulty restoring. If you are somewhere between those columns, it will be difficult to overlook it. Focus the discipline you usually use for distance no Do distance.
If you don’t know where to start, check out Graham Tutor YouTube channelAnd especially his strengthening exercises. This will help you develop the strength of the foot and ankle that you lack if you are coming from years of lined shoes, and help reduce muscle soreness when you start running barefoot. Tuttle also offers some Paid programs It aims to give you a more customized guide (I haven’t tried any of these). Another YouTube channel found that it is useful Movnat channelIt is not a barefoot specified but has a lot of good tips that are sprayed throughout its content. And if you have not read Christopher McDougal, both of them Run and Natural new heroes They are barefoot fun readings. actually, Run It can be said that running barefoot is more than anything else since the lined shoe was born in the early 1970s.
It should also be noted that barefoot shoes are not a zero game. For more than a year, I wore barefoot shoes, regular shoes for other tasks, and sandals for the rest of the time. Not everything or nothing. If you go on a barefoot tour, then a slap on your favorite opposite immediately, then this is good. It is equally important to know that everyone is different. It took six months to fully move to barefoot shoes. But this is just me. It may take two or two months. Go in your pace, and don’t worry about others’ experiences.