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Why Are Modern Shoes So Bad For My Feet?
Modern work, leisure, and athletic shoes “brace and encase” your feet in a manner that greatly compromises your amazingly complex and highly adapted feet from performing their important role in...
How Shoes Destroy Your Proproception, Weaken Your Feet, And Promote Overuse Injuries
It’s absolutely essential for your feet to interact directly with the ground and deliver valuable neurofeedback to allow your brain to initiate complex kinetic chain activity throughout the body. This is what we at Peluva call, “groundfeel.” You need a shoe with an incredible flexible sole, an appropriate but not excessive amount of cushioning, and articulated toes to generate acceptable groundfeel.
Escaping The Endorphin Addiction For A Stress-Balanced Approach To Running
With the long-anticipated release of the book Born To Walk (by Mark Sisson with Brad Kearns), there is more reflection and second-guessing of the prevailing approach to endurance running that...
Slowing Down To “Fat Max” Heart Rate To Get Fitter And Faster
Jogging is a great way to escape the comforts and confines of ordinary life, especially indoor-dominant home and work routines. It feels great to lace up your shoes, take off...
Bare Feet Absorb Impact Better Than Shoes - Really!
Look at all the padding in those super-cushioned running shoes–surely they must provide better protection than a bare foot slamming down onto a sidewalk or running trail? Incredibly, the answer is no! While this is certainly counterintuitive, science strongly validates the idea that impact forces are greatly minimized when running barefoot. There are 26 bones and 33 joints in each foot, many of them sponge-like and designed for impact absorption and propulsion. No wonder DaVinci said, “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
Why Your Shoes Might Be Hurting You More Than You Realize
Respected research confirms that the marketing of modern running shoes is steeped in misinformation and outright lies, and that this deception is a driving cause of the embarrassing rate of...
