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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.
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...
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...
Why Do Peluva’s Have So Much Cushioning - Are They Still Minimalist Shoes?
Don’t worry, Peluvas are definitely still minimalist shoes, and the Strand and Strand ATR models offer a generous nine millimeters of “stack height” (the distance from the skin of the heel...
Why Individual Toe Slots Are Better Than A Wide Toe Box
The individual articulation of the toes into individual chambers represents a superior functional innovation in the minimalist shoe category. This is especially true for modern citizens who’ve spent a lifetime in restrictive shoes, because we need to actively “force” our toes to work independently to gradually progress toward natural functionality. You can experience this need for corrective action, and track your progress, by noticing how it gets easier to slide your feet into the individual toe chambers of Peluva shoes over time.
